For those who’ve never read that most subtle, cultivated, humane and refined of minds Michael Oakeshott’s concerns resonate as deeply as ever. For the novice, I’d recommend his mid-career Rationalism in Politics, a most elegant collection of essays. A more difficult, but for me the vital underpinning cutting across all his work, is his equally elegant and…
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Here is the second piece that Ken Minogue gave me thirty or so years ago. This time it’s a piece by Oakeshott himself. Pardon the markings . . . a clean version can be found in What Is History? And Other Essays. Not that it matters much, but the date for the published version is question-marked…
Some thirty years ago Ken Minogue kindly gave me copies of three pieces, two of which he’d written on Oakeshott: the third was by Oakeshott himself. All may well have already been published, but if not, here is the first installment. history of ideas seminarhistory of political thoughtkenneth minogueLSEMichael Oakeshott
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