The poetic character of human activity : collected essays on the thought of Michael Oakshott / Wendell John Coats, Jr., and Chor-yung Cheung.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Michael Oakeshott and the poetic character of human activity (Coats) -- Practical implications of Oakeshott's poetic conception of human activity (Coats) -- Skepticism, poetic imagination, and the art of non-instrumentality: Oakeshott and Zhuangzi (Cheung) -- Some correspondences between Michael Oakeshott's critique of rationalism and A.C. Graham's account of spontaneity vs. reason (Coats) -- Conversation and learning: Oakeshott and Confucius (Cheung) -- Michael Oakeshott and contemporary political philosophy: an interpretation (Coats) -- "Theory and practice" in Oakeshott, Strauss, and Vogelin (Coats) -- Three views of Leviathan: Oakeshott, Strauss, and Vogelin (Coats) -- The cave, the Tower of Babel, and civil conversation: methaphors and the philosophical and political thought of Oakeshott (Cheung).