Meanings of Michael Oakeshott's Conservatism

<p>This collection of recent scholarship on the thought of Michael Oakeshott includes essays by both distinguished and established authors as well as a fresh crop of younger talent. Together they address the meanings of Oakeshott's conservatism through the lenses of his ideas on religion history and tradition and explore his relationships to philosophers ranging from Hume to Ryle Cavell and others. The collection assigns no single or final meaning to Oakeshott's conservatism but finds in him a number of possibilities for thinking fruitfully about what conservatism might mean when it is no longer considered as a doctrine but as a habit or a turn of mind.</p>