Michael Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on the History of Political Thought (Hardcover)

Part I: Two Historiographical Problems in Search of Solutions

1. Introduction: The Two Problems

2. Logic and Method in the History of Political Thought

Part II: The Pastness of Past Political Thinking

3. The Pastness of the Historical Past

4. Oakeshott on the History of Political Thinking

5. Pocock and Skinner on Oakeshott

Part III: The Varieties of Past Political Thinking

6. Hobbes’s Leviathan: Ideology and Philosophy

7. The Logic of the History of Political Philosophy

8. Conclusion: The Use and Abuse of History