Download or read book Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays written by Michael Oakeshott and published by Liberty Fund. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationalism in Politics established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics and criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly "scientific" or rationalistic principles that ignore the wealth and variety of human experience. Timothy Fuller is Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.