Michael Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism

Contents Contributors Introduction: Michael Oakeshott's Cold War Liberalism; Terry Nardin PART I: OAKESHOTT ON MODERN POLITICS: CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL? 1. Michael Oakeshott: Neither Liberal nor Conservative; Terry Nardin 2. Oakeshott, Modernity, and Cold War Liberalism; Edmund Neill 3. Conserving the University as a Place for Liberal Learning; Erika A. Kiss PART II: OAKESHOTT ON TOTALITARIANISM AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY 4. Oakeshott and Totalitarianism; Andrew Gamble 5. Rule of Law or City of Babel: Oakeshott on the Twentieth-Century State; Cheung Chor-yung 6. An Association for Amiable Adventurers: On Oakeshott's Peculiar Constitutionalism; Jan-Werner Müller PART III: OAKESHOTT IN THE EAST ASIAN CONTEXT 7. Oakeshott in China; Zhang Rulun 8. Michael Oakeshott and Confucian Constitutionalism; Kim Sungmoon 9. Some Implications of Oakeshott's Thought for Contemporary Korean Society and Politics; Kim Bi Hwan