The Voice of Liberal Learning

by Michael Oakeshott

Overview

By 1989, when Michael Oakeshott’s Voice of Liberal Learning was first published by Yale UniversityPress, books that held a negative view of education in the United States had garnered a remarkable amount of attention.

Oakeshott’s approach to the subject is subtle, comprehensive, and radical—in the sense of summoning readers to the root of the matter. That root, Oakeshott believed, is the very nature of learning itself and, concomitantly, the means (as distinct from the method) by which the life of learning is discovered, cultivated, and pursued.

Timothy Fuller is Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865973244
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/16/2001
Pages:	233
Sales rank:	902,526
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Liberty Fund Edition vii, Introduction: A Philosophical Understanding of Education xv Acknowledgments xxxvii A Place of Learning 1
Learning and Teaching 35
Education: The Engagement and Its Frustration 62
The Idea of a University 105
The Universities 118
Political Education 159 Index 189