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100	1		_9953 _aOakeshott, Michael, _d1901-1990
245	1	0	_aRationalism in politics and other essays / _cMichael Oakeshott ; foreword by Timothy Fuller.
260			_aIndianapolis : _bLiberty Fund, _c1991.
300			_a556 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aRationalism in politics -- Political education -- Political discourse -- Rational conduct -- The new Bentham -- The activity of being an historian -- The study of politics in a university -- Introduction to Leviathan -- The moral life in the writings of Thomas Hobbes -- Logos and telos -- The masses in representative democracy -- The political economy of freedom -- On being conservative -- Talking politics -- The tower of Babel -- The voice of poetry in the conversation of mankind.
520			_aRationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics. Oakeshott criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly "scientific" or rationalistic principles that ignore the wealth and variety of human experience. "Rationalism in politics," says Oakeshott, "involves a misconception with regard to the nature of human knowledge." History has shown that it produces unexpected, often disastrous results. "Having cut himself off from the traditional knowledge of his society, and denied the value of any education more extensive than a training in a technique of analysis," the Rationalist succeeds only in undermining the institutions that hold civilized society together. In this regard, rationalism in politics is "a corruption of the mind."
650		0	_9954 _aRationalism
650		0	_9380 _aPolitical science _xPhilosophy
700	1		_4aui _9955 _aFuller, Timothy
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