Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks, 1922-86 av Michael Oakeshott

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<p>From the 1920s to the 1980s Oakeshott filled dozens of notebooks with his private reflections, both personal and intellectual. Their contents range from aphorisms to miniature essays, forming a unique record of his intellectual trajectory over his entire career. This volume makes them accessible in print for the first time, drawing together a host of his previously inaccessible observations on politics, philosophy, art, education, and much else besides. Religion in particular emerges as an ongoing concern for him in a way that is not visible from his published works.</p><p>The notebooks also provide a unique source of insight into Oakeshott''s musings on life, thanks to the hitherto unsuspected existence of the series of ''Belle Dame'' notebooks that were written in the late 1920s and early 1930s but which only came to light two decades after his death. At the same period in which he was developing the concepts that would form Experience and its Modes, Oakeshott¿s personal life lead