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.
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