Kenneth Minogue
Biographic Data
| ID | 300035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Minogue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Minogue |
| SIGNATURE | MINOGUE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contemporary Political Philosophers
Oakeshott and Political Science
Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) achieved arguably the most sophisticated philosophical understanding of politics in recent times. His characteristic skepticism extended to the possibility of creating a genuine science of politics. This chapter sketches the development of his conception of political understanding. It begins with his early elaboration of the modal character of all knowledge, discusses his criticism of rationalism and reflections on t…
Managing' Nationalism
To when should the emergence of nationalism be dated? How should its distinctive ideological features be characterized? What consequences follow for ethnic conflicts today? Kedourie, Oakeshott and Gellner as markers in the rival views that followed
Cowling on Morality and Religion
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Michael Oakeshott as a character
The Classical Greeks: How to be a Citizen
Politics: A Very Short Introduction
In this essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in our society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century."--Jacket
A view from academe
Ernest Gellner and the Dangers of Theorising Nationalism
Machiavelli and the Duck/Rabbit Problem of Political Perception
Why Do People Disagree About Politics? Like All Naive questions, this one rapidly launches us into fundamentals. Without disagreement, there would be no politics.Some of the answers are obvious, and all the common ones line up with popular political projects. If disagreement were attributed to error, for example, to know the truth would transform our condition. Let us review the commonest answers in turn and look at the sources of political disag…
Politics and Morality in the Thought of Karl Popper
LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I FIND KARL POPPER BOTH FASCINATING and irritating. His vigour and lucidity are irresistible, and no one could complain that he fails to engage with the big questions. The problems begin when we consider his political thought. Some think him one of the great liberal philosophers of the century. I on the other hand, while being fascinated by The Open Society and its Enemies, am repelled by the grossness of its caricaturing of mos…
Is the Academic World Essentially Critical
Two Crusaders in a Political Landscape
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Obituary: Shirley Letwin (1924–93)
Ideology after the Collapse of Communism
The collapse of communism has not, as might be expected, led to the end of ideologies. Instead of the grand revolutionary projects of the past, however, we now have a set of overlapping fragments of revelation which cooperate with each other in social transformation. These fragments exhibit an ‘identity monism’ which can tell us something about the character of ideology in general. This form of monism is the necessary condition of turning a moder…
Language and Domination in some Latter-Day Marxists
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Can scholarship survive the scholars
A Memoir: Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990)
From Precision to Peace; Hobbes and Political Language
My intention is to explore the Hobbesian account of civil association in terms of his conception of the state of nature, especially as it relates to his view of language in politics. I start from the view that the achievement of a political philosopher must be to reveal some central presupposition of our thought and action, as the Greeks did in their exploration of justice, Rousseau with the general will, and Locke with the idea of property. Hobb…
Can radicalism survive Michel Foucault
FOUCAULT: A CRITICAL READER Edited by David Couzens Hoy New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. 246pp., $45.00 ($14.95 paper) MICHEL FOUCAULT by Mark Cousins and Althar Hussain New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 278pp., $27.95 ($11.95 paper
Journalism and the Public Mind
IT WAS MACHIAVELLI, THE FIRST MODERN POLITICAL THINKER, who distinguished between two kinds of problem a prince might have to face. The first sort was easy to cure but difficult to recognise, the second easy to recognise but very hard to cure. The key to successful management of a state was thus the prescience to recognise problems early on, and the will to take the necessary action.Five centuries later, the basic situation remains the same, but …
Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology
Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology
Political Science and the Gross Intellectual Product
BRITISH POLITICAL SCIENTISTS HAVE RECENTLY AWAKENED from their pragmatic slumbers to discover a dragon loose among them: the dragon of evaluation. The University Grants Committee has just been grading the quality of research in university departments, and some have been found ‘below average’. (To be merely ‘average’ hardly seems much better.) How were these gradings arrived at? We do not know, but we do know that among the documents available to …
Loquocentric Society and its Critics: The Case of Habermas
What is politics the outcomeof? The common answers to this question would invoke such ideas as power and interests. I want to argue that political events, particularly in the modern world, are the outcome of nothing else but politics itself. They emerge rhetorically, from public talk, and nothing more fundamental can be found. A society which can be validly characterized in this way may suitably be called ‘loquocentric’, or talk-centred. The odd …
To define populism
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Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology
Ideology after the Collapse of Communism
The collapse of communism has not, as might be expected, led to the end of ideologies. Instead of the grand revolutionary projects of the past, however, we now have a set of overlapping fragments of revelation which cooperate with each other in social transformation. These fragments exhibit an ‘identity monism’ which can tell us something about the character of ideology in general. This form of monism is the necessary condition of turning a moder…
Michael Oakeshott as a character
Political Science and the Gross Intellectual Product
BRITISH POLITICAL SCIENTISTS HAVE RECENTLY AWAKENED from their pragmatic slumbers to discover a dragon loose among them: the dragon of evaluation. The University Grants Committee has just been grading the quality of research in university departments, and some have been found ‘below average’. (To be merely ‘average’ hardly seems much better.) How were these gradings arrived at? We do not know, but we do know that among the documents available to …
Nationalism: The Poverty of a Concept
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Obituary: Shirley Letwin (1924–93)
Can radicalism survive Michel Foucault
FOUCAULT: A CRITICAL READER Edited by David Couzens Hoy New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. 246pp., $45.00 ($14.95 paper) MICHEL FOUCAULT by Mark Cousins and Althar Hussain New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 278pp., $27.95 ($11.95 paper
Journalism and the Public Mind
IT WAS MACHIAVELLI, THE FIRST MODERN POLITICAL THINKER, who distinguished between two kinds of problem a prince might have to face. The first sort was easy to cure but difficult to recognise, the second easy to recognise but very hard to cure. The key to successful management of a state was thus the prescience to recognise problems early on, and the will to take the necessary action.Five centuries later, the basic situation remains the same, but …
Loquocentric Society and its Critics: The Case of Habermas
What is politics the outcomeof? The common answers to this question would invoke such ideas as power and interests. I want to argue that political events, particularly in the modern world, are the outcome of nothing else but politics itself. They emerge rhetorically, from public talk, and nothing more fundamental can be found. A society which can be validly characterized in this way may suitably be called ‘loquocentric’, or talk-centred. The odd …
Hegel Contra Sociology
The antinomies of sociological reason politics in the severe style the philosophy of history the division of labour and illusion work and representation rewriting the logic with what must science end
Humanist Democracy: The Political Thought of C.B. Macpherson
Bien que le principe fondamental qui sous-tend la pensée de C.B. Macpherson soil quelquefois appelé « démocratie », son sens véritable est mieux traduit par la description alternative qui en est faite comme étant « la vie pleinement humaine ». Ce principe, qui est utilisé à la fois comme théorie pour la compréhension des sociétés modernes et comme critère pour la construction de sociétés meilleures, l'auteur en fait l'analyse à l'aide des concept…
The Language of Comparative Politics
The Moral Basis of Burke's Political Thought
The Language of Comparative Politics
Power in Politics
Nationalism: The Poverty of a Concept
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To define populism
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Epiphenomenalism in Politics: The Quest for Political Reality
Recent Discussions from Machiavelli to Altusser
Humanist Democracy: The Political Thought of C.B. Macpherson
Bien que le principe fondamental qui sous-tend la pensée de C.B. Macpherson soil quelquefois appelé « démocratie », son sens véritable est mieux traduit par la description alternative qui en est faite comme étant « la vie pleinement humaine ». Ce principe, qui est utilisé à la fois comme théorie pour la compréhension des sociétés modernes et comme critère pour la construction de sociétés meilleures, l'auteur en fait l'analyse à l'aide des concept…
Choice, consciousness and ideological language
Two Worlds of Liberalism: Religion and Politics in Hobbes, Locke and Mill . Eldon J. Eisenach
Relativism on the Banks of the Isis
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Hegel Contra Sociology
The antinomies of sociological reason politics in the severe style the philosophy of history the division of labour and illusion work and representation rewriting the logic with what must science end
Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology
Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology
Political Science and the Gross Intellectual Product
BRITISH POLITICAL SCIENTISTS HAVE RECENTLY AWAKENED from their pragmatic slumbers to discover a dragon loose among them: the dragon of evaluation. The University Grants Committee has just been grading the quality of research in university departments, and some have been found ‘below average’. (To be merely ‘average’ hardly seems much better.) How were these gradings arrived at? We do not know, but we do know that among the documents available to …
Loquocentric Society and its Critics: The Case of Habermas
What is politics the outcomeof? The common answers to this question would invoke such ideas as power and interests. I want to argue that political events, particularly in the modern world, are the outcome of nothing else but politics itself. They emerge rhetorically, from public talk, and nothing more fundamental can be found. A society which can be validly characterized in this way may suitably be called ‘loquocentric’, or talk-centred. The odd …
Can radicalism survive Michel Foucault
FOUCAULT: A CRITICAL READER Edited by David Couzens Hoy New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. 246pp., $45.00 ($14.95 paper) MICHEL FOUCAULT by Mark Cousins and Althar Hussain New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 278pp., $27.95 ($11.95 paper
Journalism and the Public Mind
IT WAS MACHIAVELLI, THE FIRST MODERN POLITICAL THINKER, who distinguished between two kinds of problem a prince might have to face. The first sort was easy to cure but difficult to recognise, the second easy to recognise but very hard to cure. The key to successful management of a state was thus the prescience to recognise problems early on, and the will to take the necessary action.Five centuries later, the basic situation remains the same, but …
From Precision to Peace; Hobbes and Political Language
My intention is to explore the Hobbesian account of civil association in terms of his conception of the state of nature, especially as it relates to his view of language in politics. I start from the view that the achievement of a political philosopher must be to reveal some central presupposition of our thought and action, as the Greeks did in their exploration of justice, Rousseau with the general will, and Locke with the idea of property. Hobb…
Can scholarship survive the scholars
A Memoir: Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990)
Language and Domination in some Latter-Day Marxists
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Obituary: Shirley Letwin (1924–93)
Ideology after the Collapse of Communism
The collapse of communism has not, as might be expected, led to the end of ideologies. Instead of the grand revolutionary projects of the past, however, we now have a set of overlapping fragments of revelation which cooperate with each other in social transformation. These fragments exhibit an ‘identity monism’ which can tell us something about the character of ideology in general. This form of monism is the necessary condition of turning a moder…
Is the Academic World Essentially Critical
Political science (33 works) · Law (27 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Politics (23 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works)