Experience and its Modes - Cambridge Philosophy Classics

Marc Notes: Previously published: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Brief Description: This book is Michael Oakeshott's discussion of the relationships between the most important perspectives from which we experience the world. Jacket Description/Back: This classic work, first published in 1933, is here published for the first time in paperback in recognition of its enduring importance. Its theme is Modality: human experience recognized as a variety of independent, self-consistent worlds of discourse, each the invention of human intelligence, but each also to be understood as abstract and an arrest in human experience. The theme is pursued in a consideration of the practical, the historical and the scientific modes of understanding. Review Quotes: 'Mr. Oakeshott's thesis ... is so original, so important and so profound that criticism must be silent until his meaning has been long pondered ... the chapter on history is the most penetrating analysis of historical thought that has ever been written ... the whole book shows Mr Oakeshott to possess philosophical gifts of a very high order, coupled with an admirable command of language; his writing is as clear as his thought is profound, and all students of philosophy should be grateful to him for his brilliant contribution to philosophical literature.' R. G. Collingwood, The Cambridge ReviewReview Quotes: 'Mr. Oakeshott's thesis ? is so original, so important and so profound that criticism must be silent until his meaning has been long pondered ? the chapter on history is the most penetrating analysis of historical thought that has ever been written ? the whole book shows Mr Oakeshott to possess philosophical gifts of a very high order, coupled with an admirable command of language; his writing is as clear as his thought is profound, and all students of philosophy should be grateful to him for his brilliant contribution to philosophical literature.' R. G. Collingwood, The Cambridge ReviewReview Quotes: ?Mr. Oakeshott's thesis ? is so original, so important and so profound that criticism must be silent until his meaning has been long pondered ? the chapter on history is the most penetrating analysis of historical thought that has ever been written ? the whole book shows Mr Oakeshott to possess philosophical gifts of a very high order, coupled with an admirable command of language; his writing is as clear as his thought is profound, and all students of philosophy should be grateful to him for his brilliant contribution to philosophical literature.? R. G. Collingwood, The Cambridge ReviewReview Quotes: ???Mr. Oakeshott??'s thesis ??? is so original, so important and so profound that criticism must be silent until his meaning has been long pondered ??? the chapter on history is the most penetrating analysis of historical thought that has ever been written ??? the whole book shows Mr Oakeshott to possess philosophical gifts of a very high order, coupled with an admirable command of language; his writing is as clear as his thought is profound, and all students of philosophy should be grateful to him for his brilliant contribution to philosophical literature.??? R. G. Collingwood, The Cambridge ReviewReview Quotes: 'Mr. Oakeshott's thesis is so original, so important and so profound that criticism must be silent until his meaning has been long pondered the chapter on history is the most penetrating analysis of historical thought that has ever been written the whole book shows Mr Oakeshott to possess philosophical gifts of a very high order, coupled with an admirable command of language; his writing is as clear as his thought is profound, and all students of philosophy should be grateful to him for his brilliant contribution to philosophical literature.' R. G. Collingwood, The Cambridge Review"Review Quotes: 'Mr Oakeshott's thesis is so original, so important and so profound that criticism must be silent until his meaning has been long pondered the chapter on history is the most penetrating analysis of historical thought that has ever been written the whole book shows Mr Oakeshott to possess philosophical gifts of a very high order, coupled with an admirable command of language; his writing is as clear as his thought is profound, and all students of philosophy should be grateful to him for his brilliant contribution to philosophical literature.' R. G. Collingwood, The Cambridge Review"Brief Description: Previously published: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Review Quotes: "Mr Oakeshott's thesis is so original, so important and so profound that criticism must be silent until his meaning has been long pondered the chapter on history is the most penetrating analysis of historical thought that has ever been written the whole book shows Mr Oakeshott to possess philosophical gifts of a very high order, coupled with an admirable command of language; his writing is as clear as his thought is profound, and all students of philosophy should be grateful to him for his brilliant contribution to philosophical literature." R. G. Collingwood, The Cambridge Review"Table of Contents: Preface to this edition Paul Franco; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Experience and its modes; 3. Historical experience; 4. Scientific experience; 5. Practical experience; 6. Conclusion; Index. Publisher Marketing: A reissue of a classic work, first published in 1933, which is a distinguished contribution to problems of philosophy of history and an acute reflection on the nature and distinctive features of different types of knowledge.

Contributor Bio:  Oakeshott, Michael Michael Oakeshott (1901 90) was a philosopher and a political theorist who wrote widely on the philosophy of aesthetics, education, history, law, political philosophy and religion. He is perhaps best known as a conservative political and social thinker.