Sartre's Radicalism and Oakeshott's Conservatism : The Duplicity of Freedom

If man has no nature -- if our intellect and understanding are products of our own activities -- do we possess a key to self-modification? Are we free to remake mankind? Sartre champions the romantic idea that we can -- by sheer determination -- begin afresh. Oakeshott is struck by the vandalism of such a project -- he seeks to defend political culture from degradation by meddling academics. The radical and conservative understanding of social order and the human self are compared in this in-depth analysis of two contrasting philosophies.Farr, Anthony is the author of 'Sartre's Radicalism and Oakeshott's Conservatism : The Duplicity of Freedom', published 1998 under ISBN 9780333684498 and ISBN 0333684494.