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…
Today marks the deadline for submissions. ConservatismLiberalismMichael OakeshottPhilosophyPoetry
Emina Melonic writes in the Law & Liberty blog. For the first time Caius have made available a proper digitized version of their Oakeshott portrait. Until now visitors have had to contend with the reflection of the covering glass. Still, even with this clarity it doesn’t improve what is a bloody awful and grim painting —…
You are cordially invited to the tenth international conference of the Michael Oakeshott Association to be held at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon, September 19-22, 2019. The theme is “Philosophy, Poetry, and Conservatism.” We hope to engage Oakeshott scholars as well as students and non-academics with an interest in the thought of Michael…
An interesting and novel invocation (context-wise) of Oakeshott by Michael Fried in The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics experience and its modesignoratio elenchimathematicsMichael FriedMichael OakeshottmodalityPhilosophy of historyphilosophy of mathematics
Here is Anthony’s entry on Oakeshott from The Routledge encyclopaedia of educational thinkers — note, MO’s date of death is incorrectly stated. anthony o’hearJoy A. Palmer CooperLiberal educationMichael OakeshottPhilosophy of Education
Born on this day, that most subtle, civilized, cultivated, elegant, insightful, humane and liberal quality of mind. For all things Oakeshottian check out the Michael Oakeshott Association, the unaffiliated Michael Oakeshott Society, loads of stuff on this site including a very rare BBC recording of Oakeshott on the philosophy of history, and last, but no means least, A Companion to…
