Elizabeth Corey suggests that in order to understand Michael Oakeshott's worldview one should pay special attention to two subjects, religion and aesthetics, and analyze the connection between these two realms and the idea of practical life in general and of politics in particular. Her book provides a sympathetic but also critical conversation with Oakeshott's ideas, ultimately offering us a coherent picture of the place of the religious, poetical, and political in the totality of his thought. Corey persuasively shows that the major ideas of the mature Oakeshott originated in his earlier religious convictions and that his philosophy of aesthetics, contrary to what his critics claimed, fit nicely in the general framework of his thought.
politics, present, practice, aesthetics, Michael Oakeshott, Elizabeth Corey, religion, world
Podoksik, E., (2009) “COMMENTARY ON ELIZABETH COREY'S INTERPRETATION OF MICHAEL OAKESHOTT”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 44(1), 223–226. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.00995.x
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Corey, Elizabeth. 2006. Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics. Columbia : Univ. of Missouri Press.
Oakeshott, Michael. 1962. “The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind. ” In Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, 197–247. London : Methuen.