Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss [electronic resource] : the Politics of Renaissance and Enlightenment / by David McIlwain.

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Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss [electronic resource] : the Politics of Renaissance and Enlightenment / by David McIlwain.

9783030133818
3030133818
9783030133818
9783030133801 (print)
303013380X
9783030133825 (print)
3030133826
9783030133832 (print)
3030133834

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

English

1 online resource (XII, 222 pages) : online resource.

10.1007/978-3-030-13381-8 doi

JC11-607

320.01

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshottâ#x80;#x99;s desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Straussâ#x80;#x99;s recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment. Starting from the conventional understanding of these thinkers as important voices of twentieth-century conservatism, McIlwain traces their deeper and more radical commitments to the highpoints of human achievement and their shared concerns with the fate of traditional inheritances in modernity, the role and meaning of history, the intention and meaning of political philosophy, and the problem of politics and religion. The book culminates in an articulation of the positions of Oakeshott and Strauss as part of the quarrel of poetry and philosophy, revealing the ongoing implications of their thinking in terms of the profound spiritual and political questions raised by modern thinkers such as Hobbes, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger and leading back to foundational figures of Western civilization including St. Augustine and Socrates.

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Recovering political philosophy.

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