Michael Oakeshott's Cold War Liberalism

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-51326-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 197 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3648 g

In this book, leading scholars from East Asia and beyond debate Michael Oakeshott's views on liberal democracy and totalitarianism and their implications for East Asia today. His ideas on rationality in politics, the nature of liberal democracy, and how democracy can defeat anti-liberal politics are explored in ten penetrating essays.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nardin, T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Contributors Introduction: Michael Oakeshott's Cold War Liberalism; Terry Nardin PART I: OAKESHOTT ON MODERN POLITICS: CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL? 1. Michael Oakeshott: Neither Liberal nor Conservative; Terry Nardin 2. Oakeshott, Modernity, and Cold War Liberalism; Edmund Neill 3. Conserving the University as a Place for Liberal Learning; Erika A. Kiss PART II: OAKESHOTT ON TOTALITARIANISM AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY 4. Oakeshott and Totalitarianism; Andrew Gamble 5. Rule of Law or City of Babel: Oakeshott on the Twentieth-Century State; Cheung Chor-yung 6. An Association for Amiable Adventurers: On Oakeshott's Peculiar Constitutionalism; Jan-Werner Müller PART III: OAKESHOTT IN THE EAST ASIAN CONTEXT 7. Oakeshott in China; Zhang Rulun 8. Michael Oakeshott and Confucian Constitutionalism; Kim Sungmoon 9. Some Implications of Oakeshott's Thought for Contemporary Korean Society and Politics; Kim Bi Hwan

Über Autor(innen)

Chor-yung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong

Andrew Gamble, Queens' College in the University of Cambridge

Bi Hwan Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, and the Korean Society for Political Thought

Sungmoon Kim, City University of Hong Kong

Erika A. Kiss, University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, USA

Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University, USA

Terry Nardin, National University of Singapore

Edmund Neill, New College of the Humanities, UK

Zhang Rulun, Fudan University, China