TY - BOOK ID - 135514383 TI - The Poetic Character of Human Activity PY - 2012 SN - 128354881X 9786613861269 0739171623 9781283548816 9780739171622 9780739171615 0739171615 PB - Lexington Books DB - UniCat KW - Oakeshott, Michael, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135514383 AB - The Poetic Character of Human Activity: Collected Essays on the Thought of Michael Oakshott is a collection of nine essays by two Oakeshott scholars, most of which explore the meaning of Oakeshott's pregnant phrase, "the poetic character of human activity" by comparing and contrasting this central idea with similar and opposing ones, in particular those of the Chinese thinkers, Zhuangzi and Confucius, but also of Western thinkers such as Plato, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. Common themes addressed include the poetic or non-instrument ER -