At last, a good photograph of the poor portrait at Caius. Graham, the author of this piece in History Today, I know had been frustrated by the reflecting glass. Not a great painting: glad we didn’t use it for the Companion. Given the dearth of Oakeshott images, no doubt this one will be over used.…
Here is Bob’s reply to Kekes’ churlish and ill-informed review. a companion to michael oakeshottJohn KekesMichael Oakeshottrobert grant
The last essay in the collection. To write about law in relationship to Michael Oakeshott’s ideas generally, or his thoughts on politics in particular, presents a complicated task, not because law is an obscure concept in Oakeshott and not because it is a topic about which he has written little. In fact, Oakeshott wrote about…
Here are some extracts from Noel’s essay, the penultimate chapter (also check out two new pieces by Noel found here). The distinctive achievement of Western political thought since the seventeenth century is the ideal of the limited state. Despite extensive theorizing about this ideal, however, there has always been profound disagreement about its precise nature…
Robert Devigne’s intro to his chapter. The identification of Michael Oakeshott with conservatism is fraught with debate. To be sure, some analysts consider Oakeshott to be the modern incarnation of Burke. Moreover, during the closing decades of the twentieth century, conservative thinkers in the United Kingdom made the greatest claims to Oakeshott. Yet different features…
Given the recent kerfuffle related to John Kekes’ hatched job review and of Eric Schliesser’s witty observation thereon, it’a an opportune time to repost our intro. Bob Grant will chime in later but for the moment he makes the following points: Of course my chapter is not about MO’s work (except indirectly), which is why it is…
Eric Schliesser makes a very witty observation about Kekes’ review of Paul and my “Companion” regarding Bob Grant’s biographical piece. It’s especially witty since there are in fact two “companions“. Kekes’ comments again reeks of sour grapes. Bob makes it quite clear: Though as my main topic will be his love life, which is not…
Here is the first formal review. Kekes make some valid points but in respect of my essay he doesn’t grasp that the cogsci that I’m concerned with is non-reductionist and non-Cartesian. The ground was already cleared by Keith Sutherland and Stephen Turner in papers that I think I cite. I think that Kekes is distracted by…
The Penn State Companion will have its launch as part of a colloquium sponsored by The Alexander Hamilton Institute and Colgate’s Center for Freedom & Western Civilization: the theme “What Is a Civilizational Struggle: The Work of Samuel Huntington.” Dates: Thur, April 18 – Sat 20, 2013 Oakeshott session: Sat 20th: 12:45-2:00pm. Location: Turning Stone Resort Casino, upstate NY. The following contributors…
Here are more extracts from Noel Malcolm’s essay for the Oakeshott Companion: Malcolm’s recent work has been listed as one of The Economist books of the year. Oakeshott’s essay on “Rationalism in Politics” does make some attempt to locate the birth of rationalism historically. He observes that “the moment when it shows itself unmistakably” is in…
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