The Legendary Past

The Legendary Past

Michael Oakeshott on Imagination and Political Identity

by Natalie Riendeau

307 pages· 2014· ISBN 9781845407834
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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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