Selected Writings Collection

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	Contents
Front matter
	Title page
	Publisher information
Notebooks, 1922–86
	Title page
	Preface
	Introduction
	Notebook 1 (c.1922)
	Notebook 2 (c.1922)
	Notebook 3 (1922)
	Notebook 4 (1923)
	Plato 1 (July 1923)
	Plato 2 (July 1923)
	Early Greek Philosophy (October 1923)
	Spinoza (October 1923)
	Aristotle 1 (November 1923)
	Notebook 5 (1923)
	Aristotle 2 (December 1923)
	Aristotle 3 (January 1924)
	Aristotle 4 (February 1924)
	Aristotle 5 (April 1924)
	Notebook 6 (September 1924)
	Notebook 7 (November 1925)
	Notebook 8 (November 1926)
	Notebook 9 (January 1927)
	Notebook 10 (September 1928)
	Belle Dame Notebook 1 (1928–1929)
	Belle Dame Notebook 2 (1929–January 1930)
	Belle Dame Notebook 3 (January–June 1930)
	Belle Dame Notebook 4 (June–December 1930)
	Belle Dame Notebook 5 (December 1930–April 1931)
	Secularism (c.1930)
	Belle Dame Notebook 6 (March–June 1931)
	Belle Dame Notebook 7 (June–July 1931)
	Belle Dame Notebook 8 (July–31 December 1931)
	Notebook 11 (October 1931)
	Belle Dame Notebook 9 (January–October 1932)
	Belle Dame Notebook 10 (October 1932–March 1934)
	Belle Dame Notebook 11 (March 1934)
	Notebook 12 (December 1934)
	Notebook 13 (April 1936)
	A Conversation (1944)
	Nelson (c.1947)
	Notebook 14 (February 1955)
	Notebook 15 (March 1955)
	Notebook 16 (September 1958)
	Notebook 17 (April 1961)
	Notebook 18 (March 1964)
	Notebook 19 (January 1966)
	Notebook 20 (April 1967)
	Notebook 21 (1 January 1981)
Early Political Writings 1925–30
	Title Page
	Preface
	Editorial Introduction
		I: The Early Oakeshott and Political Philosophy
		II: A Discussion of Some Matters Preliminary to the Study of Political Philosophy
		III: The Philosophical Approach to Politics
		IV: Oakeshott’s Early and Late Ideas on Political Philosophy Compared
		V: A Note on the Texts
	Part 1: A Discussion of Some Matters Preliminary to the Study of Political Philosophy
		Introduction
		Definition
		Political Philosophy
		The State
			Note A: A State and the State.
			Note B: The Ideal, the Real and the Actual.
			Note C: A State and a Nation.
			Note D: Some Definitions of the State.
		The Self
		The State and the Self
		Government and Law
		Conclusion
	Part 2 The Philosophical Approach to Politics
		What is Political Philosophy?
		The General Nature of Thinking and Philosophy
		Political Thinking in General
		Scientific Thinking about Politics
		Historical Thinking about Politics
		Practical Thinking about Politics
		Pseudo-Philosophical Thinking about Politics
		Philosophy Again
The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence
	Title Page
	Preface
	Introduction
		I: Religion
		II: Historiography and Philosophy of History
		III: Culture
		IV: Philosophy
		V: Politics
		VI: The History of Political Thought
		A Note on the Texts
	Science, Religion, and Reality
	The Christian Religion and Its Competitors To‑day
	Providence — Divine and Human
	The Metaphysics of Evolution
	General Theory of Value
	The Principles and Problems of Philosophy
	The Realm of Mind and Three Conceptions of Mind
	Contemporary Thought of Great Britain
	Can We Then Believe? Essays Catholic and Critical, and The Inescapable Christ
	Modernism in the English Church
	Fundamental Problems of Life
	Authority in Church and State
	Clemenceau
	The Meaning of Culture
	The Principles of Politics
	What is Conservatism? and The Pathetic Fallacy
	God and Man
	The Making of the Christian Mind
	Experience of God
	Afterthoughts and Aphorisms
	Hunger and Love
	Adventures in Philosophy and Religion
	Ethical Principles in Theory and Practice
	Religion without God, The New Divine Order, and Philosophy without Metaphysics
	John Locke
	The Social and Political Ideas of Some Representative Thinkers of the Age of Reaction and Reconstruction
	The Making of the State
	Interpreting the Universe
	Idealistic Logic
	In Job’s Balances
	A New Argument for God and Survival
	Civitas Dei
	Natural Law and the Theory of Society
	Aspects of Dialectical Materialism
	Adventures of Ideas
	The Horizon of Experience
	Richard Hooker als politischer Denker
	Thomas Hobbes
	Christianity and the Nature of History and Religion and History
	Morals and Politics
	The Political Philosophies of Plato and Hegel
	Right: a Study in Physical and Moral Order
	History and the Social Sciences
	An Introduction to Contemporary German Philosophy
	The Meaning of History
	The Historical Element in Religion
	Collected Essays
	Bernard Bosanquet’s Philosophy of the State
	The Political Philosophy of Hobbes
	Ideology and Utopia
	This Freedom of Ours
	The Modern Mind
	The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence
		I
		II
		III
	The Principles of Art
	Swords and Symbols
	Reason in Politics
	The Politics of Democratic Socialism
	Men and Ideas
	Politics and Morals
	The Idea of History
	The Liberal Tradition
	Western Political Thought
	Contemporary British Politics
	The Analysis of Political Behaviour
	The English Festivals
	Nietzsche
	Masters of Political Thought
	Why We Read History
	Father, a Portrait of G.G. Coulton at Home
	Bulwer-Lytton
	Man and Society
	Reason and Unreason in Society
	Puritanism and Democracy
	Decadence
	Science and Society
	The State and the Citizen
	The Triple Challenge
	How to Stop the Russians without War
	Principles and Ideals in Politics
	The Modern Approach to Descartes’ Problem, Notes on Descartes’ Règles and Descartes
	Socialism and Ethics
	The Tree of Commonwealth
	Insight and Outlook
	Deviation into Sense
	The Life of Reason
	Matter, Mind, and Meaning
	Barbara Celarent
	The Freedom of Necessity
	The Life of Reason
	Marxism and Contemporary Science
	The Origins of Modern Science
	The Coming Defeat of Communism
		The Tyrants
		The Attack
		Listen to Him!
	Cambridge Conversations
	The English Utilitarians
	John Locke’s Political Philosophy
	Patriarcha
	The Concept of Mind
	Tell Me the Next One
	Beyond Realism and Idealism
	The Great Philosophers
	Mr Carr’s First Volume
	The B.B.C.
	Modern Capitalism and Economic Progress
	The City of God and Introduction to St Augustine
	Citizenship and Social Class
	The Discourses of Niccoló Machiavelli
	History, Its Purpose and Method
	Liberties of the Mind
	Dominations and Powers
	The Price of Revolution
	Psychoanalysis and Politics
	Introduction to Politics
The Vocabulary of a Modern European State
	Title page
	Preface
	Introduction
		I: Religion
		II: Philosophy
		III: Culture
		IV: Historiography and Philosophy of History
		V: History and Political Thought
		VI: Politics—The Reviews
		VII: Politics—The Essays
		A Note on the Texts
	A Reminder from Leviathan
	The Ethics of Redistribution
	Two Cheers for Democracy
	An Introduction to Philosophy of History
	Liberty or Equality
	The Problem of Power
	The Liberal Anglican Idea of History
	Freedom: A New Analysis
	The Vocabulary of Politics
	The Letters of Jacob Burckhardt
	Anarchy and Order
	Politics and Opinion in the Nineteenth Century
	Political Parties
	The Conservative Mind
	Memoirs of Dr Eduard Beneš
	The Hungry Sheep
	Reason and Revolution
	The Concept of Government in Modern Europe
		I Introduction
		II Assumptions for the Existence of Government
		III Different Ideas about Government
		IV The Constitution of Government
		V The Growing Importance of the Functions of Government
		VI The Ordering of Governmental Activities
		VII The Ambiguity of Our Political Vocabulary and Its Meaning
		VIII Historical Origins of Our Thinking about the Function of Government
		IX Conclusion
	Government by Committee
	Man on His Past
	Uncommon People
	History in a Changing World
	Conservatism in America
	Studies in Communication
	Minos or Minotaur?
	Mazzini
	The Chatham Administration, 1766–1768
	Sovereignty
	The English Woman in History
	The Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
	The Study of Comparative Government and Politics
	Marxism and the Open Mind
	George III and the Historians
	The Opium of the Intellectuals
	Documents of Modern Political Thought
	Personal Knowledge
	Realism and Imagination
	Political Discipline in a Free Society
	The Story of Fabian Socialism
	Two Treatises of Government
	Montesquieu
	Political Laws and Captive Audiences
	The Essentials of Parliamentary Democracy
	Rationalism in Politics: A Reply to Professor Raphael
	The Conservative Opportunity
	Philosophy, Politics and Society
	Magna Charta
	The Works of Joseph de Maistre
	Coleridge and the Idea of the Modern State
	Nazism
		History of the Party
		Programme
		Revolutionary Aims and Tactics
		Social and Political Doctrine
		Party and State
	Hobbes Studies
	The Principles of Politics
	Sovereignty
	William of Wykeham
	The Aims of History
	Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
	Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State
	The Vocabulary of a Modern European State
		I
		II
		III
	On Misunderstanding Human Conduct
	Conservative Essays
	In Search of the Constitution
	The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
	Preface to ‘The Form of Ideology’
	Conservative Thoughts and Conservative Thinkers
Lectures in the History of Political Thought
	Title page
	Preface
	Editors’ Introduction
		Oakeshott’s Introduction (Lecture 1)
		Greek Political Thought (Lectures 2–10)
		Roman Political Thought (Lectures 11–15)
		Medieval Political Thought (Lectures 16–22)
		Modern Political Thought (Lectures 23–33)
		A Note on the Texts
	Introduction
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		9
		Editorial Note
	The Political Experience of the Ancient Greeks
		1
		2
		3: The Land
		4: The People
		5: The Early Polis
		6
		7
		8
		9
		10
		Editorial Note
	The Greek Image of the World
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		Editorial Note
	The Political Thought of the Ancient Greeks (1)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		Editorial Note
	The Political Thought of the Ancient Greeks (2)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		Editorial Note
	Aristotle (1)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		Editorial Note
	Aristotle (2)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		Editorial Note
	Plato (1)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		Editorial Note
	Plato (2)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		Editorial Note
	Stoics and Epicureans
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		Editorial Note
	The Political Experience of the Ancient Romans (1)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8: The Rule of the Patrician Consuls
		9
		Editorial Note
	The Political Experience of the Ancient Romans (2)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		Editorial Note
	Roman Political Thought (1)
		1
		2
		3
		Editorial Note LSE
	Roman Political Thought (2)
		1
		2
		3: Auctoritas
		4: Potestas
		5
		6
		Editorial Note
	Roman Political Thought (3)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		Editorial Note
	Medieval Political Experience
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		9
		10
		11
		Editorial Note
	Medieval Government
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		Editorial Note
	The Medieval Theory of Empire
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		Editorial Note
	Medieval Law
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		Editorial Note LSE
	Medieval Parliaments
		1
		2
		4
		5
		Editorial Note
	Medieval Political Philosophy (1): Augustine
		1
		2
		3
		4
		6
		7
		8
		Editorial Note
	Medieval Political Philosophy (2): Aquinas
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		9
		Editorial Note
	The Character of a Modern European State
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		9
		10
		Editorial Note
	The Generation of a Modern State
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		Editorial Note
	Modern European Political Thought
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		9
		10
		11
		Editorial Note
	Interpretations of the Modern European State (1)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		Editorial Note
	Interpretations of the Modern European State (2)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		9
		10
		8
		Editorial Note
	The Authority of Governments and the Obligations of Subjects (1)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		Editorial Note
	The Authority of Governments and the Obligations of Subjects (2)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		Editorial Note
	The Authority of Governments and the Obligations of Subjects (3)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		Editorial Note
	The Office of Government (1)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		9
		10
		Editorial Note
	The Office of Government (2)
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7: Kant
		8: Adam Smith
		9: Bentham
		10
		11
		Editorial Note
What Is History?
	Title page
	Preface
	Introduction
		The Essays
			1. The Nature of Philosophy
			2. Historical Understanding
			3. Political Philosophy
			4. Education
		A Note on the Texts
	History is a Fable
		Editorial Notes
	The Cambridge School of Political Science
		Editorial Notes
	An Essay on the Relations of Philosophy, Poetry and Reality
		I. Introduction
		II. PHILOSOPHY
		III. POETRY
		IV. Philosophy and Poetry Face to Face
		V. Conclusion
		Editorial Notes
	The Philosophy of History
		Editorial Notes
	What Do We Look for in an Historian?
		Editorial Notes
	The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe
		Editorial Notes
	On Peace with Germany
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7
		8
		Editorial Notes
	The Voice of Conversation in the Education of Mankind
		Editorial Notes
	The Philosophy of History
		Editorial Notes
	Richard Hooker
		Editorial Notes
	The Whig Interpretation of History
		Editorial Notes
	The New Society
		Editorial Notes
	The New Science of Politics
		Editorial Notes
	Freedom and Power
		Editorial Notes
	Conduct and Ideology in Politics
		Editorial Notes
	The Idea of ‘Character’ in the Interpretation of Modern Politics
		1
		2
		3
		4
		Editorial Notes
	Democracy in England
		Editorial Notes
	Current Ideas about Government
		Editorial Notes
	The Constitution of Liberty
		Editorial Notes
	Work and Play
		Editorial Notes
	Between Past and Future
		Editorial Notes
	What is History?
		1
		2
		Editorial Notes
	On Arriving at a University
		Editorial Notes
	The Historiography of Max Lenz
		Editorial Notes
	The Emergence of the History of Thought
		Editorial Notes
	The Character of a University Education
		1
		2
		Editorial Notes
	What is Political Theory?
		Editorial Notes
	Political Thought as a Subject of Historical Enquiry
		II
		III
		IV
		V
		Editorial Notes
	Law
		Editorial Notes
	Europe, the Emergence of an Idea
		Editorial Notes
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