A Companion to Michael Oakeshott
Cover Page -- Half title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh -- NOTES -- 1. The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love Robert Grant -- NOTES -- PART ONE: THE CONVERSATION OF MANKIND -- 2. The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance David Boucher -- CAMBRIDGE IDEALIST INSPIRATION -- THE IDEALIST CONCEPTION OF PHILOSOPHY -- DID OAKESHOTT ABANDON HIS ABSOLUTE IDEALISM? -- THE CONVERSATIONAL CHARACTER OF PHILOSOPHY -- CONCLUSION: THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF OAKESHOTT'S ABSOLUTISM -- NOTES -- 3. Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy Kenneth McIntyre -- EXPERIENCE AND ITS MODES -- "THE VOICE OF POETRY IN THE CONVERSATION OF MANKIND" -- ON HUMAN CONDUCT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4. Michael Oakeshott's Philosophy of History Geoffrey Thomas -- TEXTS AND CONTINUITY -- ONLY THE PRESENT EXISTS -- ONLY EXPERIENCE EXISTS -- THE HISTORICAL PAST IS AN INFERENTIAL CONSTRUCTION FROM EXPERIENCE -- THE HISTORICAL PAST IS A LOGICAL CONSTRUCTION FROM PRESENT EXPERIENCE -- HISTORICAL INQUIRY IS AUTONOMOUS -- REVIEW -- NOTES -- 5. Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott Timothy Fuller -- ON RADICAL TEMPORALITY AND HUMAN CONDUCT -- THE MODERN MORAL IMAGINATION RESPONDS TO RADICAL TEMPORALITY -- NOTES -- 6. The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott Elizabeth Corey -- THE TOWER OF BABEL -- RELIGION -- PRACTICE -- POETRY -- RATIONALISM -- NOTES -- 7. Whatever It Turns Out to Be: Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience Corey Abel -- NOTES -- 8. Un Début dans la Vie Humaine: Michael Oakeshott on Education Paul Franco -- I -- II -- III -- NOTES -- PART TWO: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- 9. Michael Oakeshott on the History of Political Thought Martyn Thompson -- I -- II -- NOTES.