How Long to Read Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought

How Long Does it Take to Read Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 27 minutes to read Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought by Luke Philip Plotica

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Description

A fresh reading of Oakeshott’s contributions to the ongoing conversation of modern political thought. One of the seminal voices of twentieth-century political thought, Michael Oakeshott’s work has often fallen prey to the ideological labels applied to it by his interpreters and commentators. In this book, Luke Philip Plotica argues that we stand to learn more by embracing Oakeshott’s own understanding of his work as contributions to an ever-evolving conversation of humanity. Building from Oakeshott’s concept of conversation as an engagement among a plurality of voices “without symposiarch or arbiter” to dictate its course, Plotica explores several fundamental and recurring themes of Oakeshott’s philosophical and political writings: individual agency, tradition, the state, and democracy. When viewed as interventions into an ongoing conversation of modern political thought, Oakeshott’s work transcends the limits of familiar ideological labels, and his thought opens into deeper engagement with some of the most significant thinkers of the twentieth century, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Taylor, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt. Attending to these often unexpected or unrecognized affinities casts fresh light on some of Oakeshott’s most familiar ideas and their systematic relations, and facilitates a better understanding of the breadth and depth of his political thought. Luke Philip Plotica is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech.

How long is Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought?

Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought by Luke Philip Plotica is 204 pages long, and a total of 51,816 words.

This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 43 minutes to read Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought aloud.

What Reading Level is Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought?

Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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