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In this book, leading scholars from East Asia and beyond debate Michael Oakeshott´s views on liberal democracy and totalitarianism and their implications for East Asia today. His ideas on rationality in politics, the nature of liberal democracy, and how democracy can defeat anti-liberal politics are explored in ten penetrating essays.

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Contents Contributors Introduction: Michael Oakeshott´s Cold War Liberalism; Terry Nardin PART I: OAKESHOTT ON MODERN POLITICS: CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL? 1. Michael Oakeshott: Neither Liberal nor Conservative; Terry Nardin 2. Oakeshott, Modernity, and Cold War Liberalism; Edmund Neill 3. Conserving the University as a Place for Liberal Learning; Erika A. Kiss PART II: OAKESHOTT ON TOTALITARIANISM AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY 4. Oakeshott and Totalitarianism; Andrew Gamble 5. Rule of Law or City of Babel: Oakeshott on the Twentieth-Century State; Cheung Chor-yung 6. An Association for Amiable Adventurers: On Oakeshott´s Peculiar Constitutionalism; Jan-Werner Müller PART III: OAKESHOTT IN THE EAST ASIAN CONTEXT 7. Oakeshott in China; Zhang Rulun 8. Michael Oakeshott and Confucian Constitutionalism; Kim Sungmoon 9. Some Implications of Oakeshott´s Thought for Contemporary Korean Society and Politics; Kim Bi Hwan

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Chor-yung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong Andrew Gamble, Queens´ College in the University of Cambridge Bi Hwan Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, and the Korean Society for Political Thought Sungmoon Kim, City University of Hong Kong Erika A. Kiss, University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, USA Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University, USA Terry Nardin, National University of Singapore Edmund Neill, New College of the Humanities, UK Zhang Rulun, Fudan University, China

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