Michael Oakeshott was a leading Political theorist described by The Telegraph in 1990 as "the greatest political philosopher in the Anglo-Saxon tradition since

Michael Oakeshott has long been recognized as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, but until now no single volume has been

A fresh reading of Oakeshott's contributions to the ongoing conversation of modern political thought.

This is the first comprehensive study of Michael Oakeshott as a philosopher rather than a political theorist, which is how most commentators have regarded him.

"Argues that Oakeshott's views on aesthetics, religion, and morality, which she places in the Augustinian tradition, are intimately linked to a creative moral p