Shils and Oakeshott
Edward Shils, it is reported, was an admirer of the British philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901–90) (Pooley, 2007: 368). In the late 1940s Oakeshott was a prominent lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where he had been teaching history of political thought for over two decades. In 1950, after a...
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| Published in | The Calling of Social Thought pp. 123 - 139 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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United Kingdom
Manchester University Press
2019
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| Edition | 1 |
| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Edward Shils, it is reported, was an admirer of the British philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901–90) (Pooley, 2007: 368). In the late 1940s Oakeshott was a prominent lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where he had been teaching history of political thought for over two decades. In 1950, after a brief stay in Oxford, he was invited to take the chair in political science at the London School of Economics (LSE) upon the death of Harold Laski.
Shils was fond of the UK and spent much of his life teaching in its universities. In the course of his life he |
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| ISBN: | 1526120054 9781526120052 |
| DOI: | 10.7765/9781526120069.00011 |