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Rationalism in Politics established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics and criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly "scientific" or rationalistic principles that ignore the wealth and variety of human experience.

"…one of the outstanding political philosophers of the 20th century… Oakeshott returned continually to the central theme of his work: freedom, seeking to explain not just freedom in the political sense, but freedom as a defining characteristic of man." – The London Times

"Michael Oakeshott’s work is beginning to attract the attention it richly deserves and this excellent new edition, including very important essays that have been inaccessible, will surely augment the growing interest in his thinking." – Richard E. Flathman, John Hopkins University

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