Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss The Politics of Renaissance and En
This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott’s desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss’s recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment. Starting from the conventi
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Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss The Politics of Renaissance and Enlightenment dav i d mc i lwa i n
Recovering Political Philosophy Series Editors Timothy W. Burns Baylor University Waco, TX, USA Thomas L. Pangle University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA
Postmodernism’s challenge to the possibility of a rational foundation for and guidance of our political lives has provoked a searching re-examination of the works of past political philosophers. The re-examination seeks to recover the ancient or classical grounding for civic reason and to clarify the strengths and weaknesses of modern philosophic rationalism. This series responds to this ferment by making available outstanding new scholarship in the history of political philosophy, scholarship that is inspired by the rediscovery of the diverse rhetorical strategies employed by political philosophers. The series features interpretive studies attentive to historical context and language, and to the ways in which censorship and didactic concern impelled prudent thinkers, in widely diverse cultural conditions, to employ manifold strategies of writing, strategies that allowed them to aim at different audiences with various degrees of openness to unconventional thinking. Recovering Political Philosophy emphasizes the close reading of ancient, medieval, early modern and late modern works that illuminate the human condition by attempting to answer its deepest, enduring questions, and that have (in the modern periods) laid the foundations for contemporary political, social, and economic life. The editors encourage manuscripts from both established and emerging scholars who focus on the careful study of texts, either through analysis of a single work or through thematic study of a problem or question in a number of works. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14517
David McIlwain
Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss The Politics of Renaissance and Enlightenment
David McIlwain Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations Macquarie University North Ryde, NSW, Australia
ISSN 2524-7166 ISSN 2524-7174 (electronic) Recovering Political Philosophy ISBN 978-3-030-13380-1 ISBN 978-3-030-13381-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13381-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019933552 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in t
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