The Legendary Past: Michael Oakeshott on Imagination and Political Identity

by Natalie Riendeau

The book explores Oakeshott's thought on the key role human imagination plays in relation to the political. It addresses four main imagination, foundational narratives, the question of political societies' identities as well as that of human living-together, to use Hannah Arendt's expression. The book's main objective is to show that Oakeshott may be rightfully understood to be a philosopher of the imagination as well as a foundationalist thinker in the Arendtian narrative constructivist tradition.

356 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 12, 2014