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Some More Recent Oakeshottiana
1. Michael Oakeshott’s Skepticism 2. Oakeshott on Practice, Normative Thought and Political Philosophy 3. Michael Oakeshott’s political philosophy of civil association and constructivism in International Relations civil associationConservatismconstructivismDavide Orsi.international relationsLiberalismMichael OakeshottnormativismPolitical philosophyskepticism
OAKESHOTT’S PILGRIMAGE PAST J.S. MILL
Recent article by the “dean” of Oakshott studies Generally speaking, those who pursue political philosophy feel an affinity with Mill more than with Oakeshott at this point. It is not that Oakeshott stands in the way of change; on the contrary, he accepts change as natural to humanity; the real objection is that he does…
Jesse Norman on Liberal Education/ Orsi on Oakeshott and International Relations
Listen to Jesse Norman’s Oakeshott talk. Also an article recently published by Davide Orsi. Introduction Michael Oakeshott’s thought has been considered from a great variety of perspectives and has been interpreted in many, often divergent, ways. For example, scholars have placed his works in the context of the history of philosophy and they have highlighted their relationship…
Fifty key thinkers on history: Oakeshott/ Patrick Gardiner
To my mind, this is a rather awkward piece but nonetheless serves as a quick intro to Oakeshott on history. A really top-notch expositor on the philosophy of history expositor was the late Patrick Gardiner who I was privileged to meet — see below after Oakeshott. MICHAEL OAKESHOTT 1901–90 ‘Modality’, as Oakeshott explains on the…
Government open data and transparency: Oakeshott, civil association and the general will
Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought Volume 5, Issue 1, 2015 This article considers recent trends in government towards openness and transparency, particularly with respect to the publication of open data, in the context of Michael Oakeshott’s ideas of the nature of the state and the conditions for civility.…
Conservatism, Epistemology, Risk and Mind
Reassuring that Oakeshott is finding currency well beyond political circles. Also, here is a talk on Oakeshott by well-known Oakeshottian Jesse Norman. a companion to michael oakeshottConservatismEpistemologyJesse NormanKieron O’HaraLiberalismMichael Oakeshottsituated cognitionsocial epistemology
Rationalism and Teaching the Constitution
Elizabeth Corey’s recent discussion in Academic Questions. An extract below: Oakeshott’s Critique In his most famous essay, “Rationalism in Politics,” published in a book of the same name, Oakeshott calls the American Founding a “Rationalist” project. In Oakeshott’s lexicon, Rationalism is not something to be praised but a pathological condition, a cast of mind exhibited by…
Oakeshott conference details: Hull 2015
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Michael Oakeshott and the Left
Here’s a new paper by Luke O’Sullivan: No one has ever really studied Michael Oakeshott’s relationship to the left. After all, since Oakeshott is generally classified as a conservative political thinker, there is presumably little to study. Yet on a second glance there is more to the matter. His contemporaries certainly found Oakeshott hard to…
