The Legendary Past: Michael Oakeshott on Imagination and Political Identity

Natalie Riendeau

The Legendary Past: Michael Oakeshott on Imagination and Political Identity
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Imprint Academic
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 November 2014
Pages
250
ISBN
9781845407605

The Legendary Past: Michael Oakeshott on Imagination and Political Identity

Natalie Riendeau

The book explores Oakeshott’s thought on the key role human imagination plays in relation to the political. It addresses four main themes: imagination, foundational narratives, the question of political societies’ identities as well as that of human living-together, to use Hannah Arendt’s expression. The book’s main objective is to show that Oakeshott may be rightfully understood to be a philosopher of the imagination as well as a foundationalist thinker in the Arendtian narrative constructivist tradition.

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