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This is the first comprehensive study of Michael Oakeshott as a philosopherrather than a political theorist which is how most commentators have regardedhim. Indeed the careful reading of his published and unpublished writings thatTerry Nardin provides here shows that Oakeshotts concerns have been primarilyphilosophical not political. These writings go far beyond politics to offer acritical philosophy of human activity and of the disciplines that interpret andexplain it. Oakeshott argues that inquiry can be independent of practicalconcerns even when its subject is the thought and action of human beings.Although the book considers Oakeshotts views on morality law and governmentit is primarily concerned with his ideas about the character of knowledgeespecially knowledge of intelligent human conduct and focuses attention on theconcepts of modality contingency and civility that are central to Oakeshottsphilosophy as a whole. Nardin seeks to show how Oakeshotts critique ofscientism and other forms of foundationalism supports a powerful version of theargument that history is the proper mode for understanding human choice andaction.The book thus provides the fullest discussion available of Oakeshottsantifoundationalist view of epistemology metaphysics and the philosophy ofhistory and the human sciences. It examines his arguments concerning thecriteria of truth the forms of knowledge the relationship between theory andpractice the place of interpretation in the social sciences the nature andimportance of historical explanation and the definition of philosophy itself.And it is the first study to look at Oakeshotts relationship tophenomenologyhermeneutics and other movements in twentiethcenturyContinental philosophy. «
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