Wendell John Coats's Books

The Poetic Character of Human Activity

Collected Essays on the Thought of Michael Oakeshott

By: Wendell John Coats,Chor-yung Cheung

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Poetic Character of Human Activity

Collected Essays on the Thought of Michael Oakeshott

By: Wendell John Coats,Chor-yung Cheung

The Poetic Character of Human Activity: Collected Essays on the Thought of Michael Oakshott is a collection of nine essays by two Oakeshott scholars, most of which explore the meaning of Oakeshott's pregnant phrase, "the poetic character of human activity" by comparing and contrasting this central idea with similar and opposing ones, in particular those of the Chinese thinkers, Zhuangzi and Confucius, but also of Western thinkers such as Plato, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. Common themes addressed include the poetic or non-instrumental aspects of philosophizing, teaching and learning, morality and governance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

152

Publisher

Lexington Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0739171615

ISBN 13

9780739171615

Oakeshott and His Contemporaries

Montaigne, St. Augustine, Hegel, Et Al

By: Wendell John Coats

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Oakeshott and His Contemporaries

Montaigne, St. Augustine, Hegel, Et Al

By: Wendell John Coats

Oakeshott and His Contemporaries is an exploration of the ideas of one of the most important twentieth-century English political philosophers vis-a-vis related ideas in the thought of seven prominent European thinkers, spanning a millennium and a half. The intent of the exploration is not an attempt to uncover Oakeshott's intellectual influences (a dubious project in the case of any original thinker), but rather to show the importance and coherence of Oakeshott's various themes by showing how they modify, amplify, and contrast with similar and related themes in the thought of seven better known thinkers - Montaigne, St. Augustine, Hegel, Hobbes, Benjamin Constant, Rousseau, and Hume."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

156

Publisher

Susquehanna University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1575910381

ISBN 13

9781575910383

A Theory of Republican Character and Related Essays

By: Wendell John Coats

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Theory of Republican Character and Related Essays

By: Wendell John Coats

Coats makes his argument for the importance of such republican generalists in even an advanced, specialized democracy - necessary if political balance is to be maintained.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Susquehanna University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

094563658X

ISBN 13

9780945636588

Michael Oakeshott as a Philosopher of the Creative

...and Other Essays

By: Wendell John Coats Jr.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Michael Oakeshott as a Philosopher of the Creative

...and Other Essays

By: Wendell John Coats Jr.

This book is a collection of eight (mostly) recent essays on the work of the 20th-century English philosophic essayist, Michael Oakeshott. Six of them advance the view in different ways that Oakeshott's multifarious lifework may be understood as variations on a singular insight — that the structure of experiential reality is 'creative' or 'poetic’, with the form and content (the how and what) of thought and activity occurring simultaneously and conditioning one another reciprocally; and that this experiential structure has specifiable cultural, political and legal ramifications. In advancing and illustrating this viewpoint, comparisons and contrasts are drawn with medieval nominalism, philosophic idealism, Cartesianism, modernity, post-modernism, Chinese Daoism and with the views of thinkers such as Sir Henry Maine, Charles McIlwain, M.B. Foster, Leo Strauss, A.C. Graham, Friedrich Hayek, Efraim Podoksik, John Liddington, and others. Included also is an essay on the educational views of Oakeshott and A.N. Whitehead, and another on Oakeshott, Max Weber and Carl Schmitt and the relationship between politics and armed force. A very brief concluding postscript asserts the continued relevance (as a corrective) of Oakeshott’s views on the creative structure of human experience in an age of ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

168

Publisher

Andrews UK Limited

Published Date

ISBN 10

1788360117

ISBN 13

9781788360111

Montaigne's Essais

By: Wendell John Coats

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Montaigne's Essais

By: Wendell John Coats

This book provides an extensive and textual analysis of Montaigne's essays - both the relevant Villey French texts as well as the Frame English translations. It identifies and illustrates a unifying, recurring theme in the ostensibly diverse and often apparently contradictory essays of the sixteenth-century writer - the attempt at psychic harmony through «temporal solipsism», or living insofar as possible in the present moment by doing things for their own sake rather than for extrinsic purposes. Placing Montaigne in historical context, Montaigne's Essais argues that he implicitly provides his own synthesis of pagan and Christian ideas, with no fewer tensions than the Aquinian synthesis. A concluding bibliographic essay addresses some issues of scholarly controversy, primarily from the perspectives of philosophy and political theory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

140

Publisher

Peter Lang

Published Date

ISBN 10

0820463167

ISBN 13

9780820463162

The Activity of Politics and Related Essays

By: Wendell John Coats

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Activity of Politics and Related Essays

By: Wendell John Coats

Animated by the single theme of the nature of politics, this collection of ten essays addresses such diverse topics as liberalism; education; arms control; the relation of politics to armed force; the theories of Michael Oakeshott, Karl Marx, John Dewey, and Alberto Moravia; and the challenges to politics in a republic.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Susquehanna University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0941664953

ISBN 13

9780941664950

Political Theory and Practice

Eight Essays on a Theme

By: Wendell John Coats

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Political Theory and Practice

Eight Essays on a Theme

By: Wendell John Coats

The essays in this monograph address the relation of political theorizing to political practice and action collected in over two decades of teaching the canonical history of Western political theory. The issues were selected not on some deductive or speculative basis, but for the light they may shed on the political theory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

164

Publisher

Susquehanna University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1575910756

ISBN 13

9781575910758

Book's by Wendell John Coats

The Poetic Character of Human Activity

The Poetic Character of Human Activity

Oakeshott and His Contemporaries

Oakeshott and His Contemporaries

A Theory of Republican Character and Related Essays

A Theory of Republican Character and Related Essays

Michael Oakeshott as a Philosopher of the Creative

Michael Oakeshott as a Philosopher of the Creative

Montaigne's Essais

Montaigne's Essais

The Activity of Politics and Related Essays

The Activity of Politics and Related Essays

Political Theory and Practice

Political Theory and Practice

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email