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Sceptical Idealist: Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of the Enlightenment (British Idealist Studies, Series 1: Oakeshott),Used
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This is the first booklength study to provide a structured interpretation of the significance of Michael Oakeshott's critique of the Enlightenment. By seeing the thinker as a 'sceptical idealist posing a serious challenge to the intellectual positions informed by the Enlightenment, this book attempts to resolve some of the issues debated by Oakeshott scholars. The author argues that Oakeshotts famous critique of philosophisme and Rationalism in fact expresses a sense of the crisis of philosophical modernity. Moreover, notwithstanding some recent interpretations, throughout his intellectual career Oakeshott has never altered his analysis of these two themes: philosophy as the persistent reestablishment of completeness by transcending abstractness, and the modes of experience as selfconsistent worlds of discourse. To apply this philosophy in his moral and political writings, Oakeshott has redressed an imbalance in favour of the Enlightenment ethical position the sovereignty of technique, demonstrative moral truth, the politics of faith and enterprise association by revitalising the importance of traditional knowledge, conversation, intimation, the politics of scepticism and civil association. Oakeshott is neither a doctrinal liberal nor a dogmatic conservative, but a philosophical sceptic. Moreover, Oakeshotts contribution to history not only lies in his effort to transcend the Enlightenment historiographical position by separating the historical from the naturalised conception of History on which socalled scientific history rests but also in his idealistic solution for the temporal dilemma and the epistemic tension in history that have long bothered philosophers.
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