D. J. Manning Explained

David John Manning (8th April 1938–10th April 2014) was a British academic and author who was a lecturer in politics at Durham University.[1] [2]

He was a student of Michael Oakeshott.[3] Manning's critique of Jeremy Bentham's philosophy, The Mind of Jeremy Bentham, was influenced by Oakeshott's ideas.[4] [5]

Manning hosted MA politics seminars at Durham University and he edited a collection of essays by his former students, which were published in 1980 as The Form of Ideology: Investigations Into the Sense of Ideological Reasoning with a View to Giving an Account of Its Place in Political Life.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. 'author:(Manning, D. J. (David John) 1938-)', University of Lincoln Library website. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  2. Michael Oakeshott, 'Preface' to D. J. Manning (ed.), The Form of Ideology: Investigations Into the Sense of Ideological Reasoning with a View to Giving an Account of Its Place in Political Life (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980), p. vii.
  3. Varun Uberoi, 'Oakeshott and Parekh: The Influence of British Idealism on British Multiculturalism', History of Political Thought, Vol. XLII, No. 4 (Winter 2021), p. 752.
  4. Peter P. Nicholson, 'Reviewed Work: The Mind of Jeremy Bentham by D. J. Manning', History, Vol. 53, No. 179 (1968), p. 449.
  5. 'Political Theory, History of Political Thought and Methodology', The American Political Science Review, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Jun., 1970), p. 1970.
  6. David Boucher, Texts in Context: Revisionist Methods for Studying the History of Ideas (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1985), p. 273.