On History and Other Essays / Edition 1

by Michael Oakeshott

Overview

In five essays, including three on historiography, one of the greatest minds in English political thought in the twentieth century explores themes central to the human experience: the nature of history, the rule of law, and the quest for power that is intrinsic to the human condition. Michael Oakeshott believed, as Timothy Fuller observes, that “the historian’s effort to understand the past without ulterior motive [is the] effort which distinguishes the historian from all who examine the past for the guidance they expect it to provide about practical concerns.”

Timothy Fuller is Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865972674
Publisher:	Liberty Fund Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	380,074
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword ix Three Essays on History
I Present, Future and Past 1
II Historical Events
The fortuitous, the causal, the similar, the correlative, the analogous and the contingent 49
III Historical Change
Identity and continuity 105 The Rule of Law 129 The Tower of Babel 179 Index 211