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Book SynopsisThis highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of his intellectual career, and adds significantly to his contributions to the philosophy of historical understanding and political philosophy, as well as to the philosophy of education and aesthetics. The essays were intended mostly for lectures or seminars, and are consequently in an informal style that will be accessible to new readers as well as to those already well acquainted with Oakeshott''s works. Early pieces include a long essay ''On the Relations of Philosophy, Poetry, and Reality', and Oakeshott's comments on The Cambridge School of Political Science' through which he himself had passed as an undergraduate. The collection also reproduces a substantial wartime essay On Peace with Germany'. There are two new essays on the philosophy of education, and the essay which gives the work its title, What is History?', is just one of over h
