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    (1 other version)In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott.Efraim Podoksik - 2003 - Imprint Academic.
    Although Oakeshott's philosophy has received considerable attention, the vision which underlies it has been almost completely ignored. This vision, which is rooted in the intellectual debates of his epoch, cements his ideas into a coherent whole and provides a compelling defence of modernity. The main feature of Oakeshott's vision of modernity is seen here as radical plurality resulting from 'fragmentation' of experience and society. On the level of experience, modernity denies the existence of the hierarchical medieval scheme and argues that (...)
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    The Cambridge companion to Oakeshott.Efraim Podoksik (ed.) - 2012 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) was one of the leading British philosophers of the twentieth century. He has been influential particularly as a political philosopher, but his work reflects a range of philosophical interests that have more gradually come to be appreciated. In this volume a broad group of scholars offers a comprehensive overview of Oakeshott's philosophy, including his moral and political philosophy, his philosophy of history, science and aesthetics, and his views on the role of education. They analyse Oakeshott's ideas in (...)
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    Anti-totalitarian ambiguities: Jacob Talmon and Michael Oakeshott.Efraim Podoksik - 2008 - History of European Ideas 34 (2):206-219.
    Jacob Talmon and Michael Oakeshott represent two opposite tendencies in the anti-totalitarian world view. Both thinkers share many central features of this broad intellectual trend, such as the equation between the Soviet and Nazi regimes, Anglophilia and the rejection of the utopian quest. Yet this basic agreement should not distract us from significant differences in attitude and temperament. Talmon, like most other critics of totalitarianism, was strongly affected by the atmosphere of a profound intellectual and political crisis in Europe, and (...)
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  4. Estienne De La Boëtie And The Politics Of Obedience.Efraim Podoksik - 2003 - Bibliothèque d'Humanisme Et Renaissance 65 (1):83-95.
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    Oakeshott's Theory of Freedom as Recognized Contingency.Efraim Podoksik - 2003 - European Journal of Political Theory 2 (1):57-77.
    This article argues that Oakeshott's theory of freedom possesses a greater degree of coherence than is often perceived. Freedom in Oakeshott's philosophy may be defined as `recognized contingency', combining the notions of a genuine choice of action and of an agent's awareness of having such a choice. Oakeshott employs his notion of freedom in two different contexts. One is the context in which freedom is understood as a concept distinguishing what is conceived as `human' from what is conceived as `non-human'. (...)
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  6. The Voice of Poetry in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott.Efraim Podoksik - 2002 - Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (4):717-733.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 63.4 (2002) 717-733 [Access article in PDF] The Voice of Poetry in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott Efraim Podoksik The British philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is mostly known as a political thinker of conservative persuasion, and his general philosophy is usually analyzed only in connection with the social and political aspects of his thought, with most attention being paid to his discussion of (...)
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    In Search of Unity: Georg Simmel on Italian Cities as Works of Art.Efraim Podoksik - 2012 - Theory, Culture and Society 29 (7-8):101-123.
    The article suggests that Simmel’s thought should be interpreted as a coherent series of continuous attempts to solve philosophically the dilemmas entailed in the German ideal of Bildung. By analysing Simmel’s three short essays on Italian cities, and by placing them in the context of both his own intellectual development and the intellectual context of his time, the article will show how ideas expressed in these essays reflect this basic character of Simmel’s thought. In other words, far from being independent (...)
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    One Concept of Liberty: Towards Writing the History of a Political Concept.Efraim Podoksik - 2010 - Journal of the History of Ideas 71 (2):219-240.
    It is often assumed that European thought contained several conceptually distinct and equally influential notions of liberty. The article challenges this perception, arguing that European history was dominated by one concept of liberty. It attempts to show that the tendency to dismiss the idea of one concept of liberty is premature. Such an attitude is caused either by misplaced interpretations of ancient texts, by exaggerated historicism, or by an anachronistic reading of early modern political thought. The article suggests that the (...)
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    A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics: by Matthew W. Slaboch, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, 194 pp., $45/£35.Efraim Podoksik - 2020 - The European Legacy 25 (7-8):882-883.
    Volume 25, Issue 7-8, November - December 2020, Page 882-883.
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    Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror.Efraim Podoksik - 2014 - The European Legacy 19 (5):667-667.
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  11. Commentary on Elizabeth Corey's interpretation of Michael Oakeshott.Efraim Podoksik - 2009 - Zygon 44 (1):223-226.
    Elizabeth Corey suggests that in order to understand Michael Oakeshott's worldview one should pay special attention to two subjects, religion and aesthetics, and analyze the connection between these two realms and the idea of practical life in general and of politics in particular. Her book provides a sympathetic but also critical conversation with Oakeshott's ideas, ultimately offering us a coherent picture of the place of the religious, poetical, and political in the totality of his thought. Corey persuasively shows that the (...)
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    Georg Simmel and German Culture: Unity, Variety and Modern Discontents.Efraim Podoksik - 2021 - Cambridge University Press.
    The significance of the German philosopher and social thinker, Georg Simmel, is only now being recognised by intellectual historians. Through penetrating readings of Simmel's thought, taken as a series of reflections on the essence of modernity and modern civilisation, Efraim Podoksik places his ideas within the context of intellectual life in Germany, and especially Berlin, under the Kaiserreich. Modernity, characterised by the growing differentiation and fragmentation of culture and society, was a fundamental issue during Simmel's life, underpinning central intellectual debates (...)
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    How Oakeshott Became an Oakeshottean.Efraim Podoksik - 2005 - European Journal of Political Theory 4 (1):67-88.
    Two ideas lie at the heart of Oakeshott’s philosophy: the notion of the inherent plurality of modern experience and the notion of a modern state as a purposeless civil association. These ideas signify Oakeshott’s rejection of the intellectual tradition of British Idealism by which he was influenced in his twenties. The breaking point was the publication of Experience and its Modes, although, with regard to social philosophy, the process of the abandonment of holistic Idealism lasted longer and was completed only (...)
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    Society as the mode of redemption: the individual in Georg Simmel's early sociological writings.Efraim Podoksik - 2015 - Intellectual History Review 25 (4):413-431.
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    The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte.Efraim Podoksik - 2015 - The European Legacy 20 (2):197-198.
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    The contract of fallibility.Efraim Podoksik - 2009 - Contemporary Political Theory 8 (4):394-414.
    The paper argues that modern political life faces a seemingly irresolvable contradiction. On the one hand, a moral judgement in politics can refer only to the consequences of any policy. On the other hand, in modern society no consequences can be reasonably predicted at the moment a decision is taken. This renders political life unbearable from the moral point of view, because almost any political decision is likely subject to failure in the future. The solution to this dilemma is to (...)
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  17. The idealism of young Oakeshott.Efraim Podoksik - 2010 - In James Connelly & Stamatoula Panagakou (eds.), Anglo-American idealism: thinkers and ideas / edited by James Connelly and Stamatoula Panagakou. New York: Peter Lang.
     
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    The scientific positivism of Michael Oakeshott.Efraim Podoksik - 2004 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (2):297 – 318.
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    (1 other version)What is a Nation in Nationalism?Efraim Podoksik - 2016 - Journal of Political Philosophy 24 (4).
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  20. Oakeshott Scholarship Today. [REVIEW]Efraim Podoksik - 2009 - Hermeneia:84-88.
     
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    The Legendary Past: Michael Oakeshott on Imagination and Political Identity. [REVIEW]Efraim Podoksik - 2017 - The European Legacy 22 (4):502-503.
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