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Oakeshott in the real world.(Book Review)
Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction, by Paul Franco; Yale University Press, 2004, $63.95.
ON RETIRING from the Politics Chair at the London School of Economics in 1969 Michael Oakeshott remarked, "Some people say the world's the thing; and the rare glimpses of it I have had suggest that they may be right. I, too, have dabbled in it from time to time. But, on the whole, I have found it overrated."
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