This book is Michael Oakeshott's discussion of the relationships between the most important perspectives from which we experience the world.

From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from

This book is a critique of Cambridge School Historical Contextualism as the currently dominant mode of history of political thought, drawing upon Michael Oakesh

Oakeshott's memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for th