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Last of the Idealists
John Gray looks at Oakeshott’s Notebooks. Unlike many academics he did not crave respectability, intellectual or otherwise; even by today’s standards, his private life might be thought a bit rackety. But the life Oakeshott lived was not an unexamined one; it expressed an idea of individuality he found in the philosophers he most admired. It is…
A New Look at Michael Oakeshott
Lee Auspitz looks at the recent spate of Oakeshottiana in the Claremont Review of Books Spring 2014, Vol. XIV, No. 2: 54-59. a companion to michael oakeshottefraim podoksikhistory of political thoughtlee auspitzPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of historyphilosophy of lawphilosophy of social sciencePolitical philosophy
Oliver Letwin Reviews Oakeshott’s Notebooks
Oliver Letwin makes some elegant comments in The Spectator. And no, I for one would cringe at a statue of MO. The quotes below, especially the first, sound as if they came from the pen of Walker Percy. The Notebooks bring out this quality, letting us into some of the smouldering passions that lay behind…
Jesse Norman Reviews Oakeshott’s Notebooks
The rights for this photo is attributed to Getty Images. Odd that since it was Simon Oakeshott, Oakeshott’s son, that gave me the photo “to do as I pleased.” I scanned it and returned it and then did a great deal of painstaking touch up work on it for the commemoration of Oakeshott’s centenary — and…
Politics in a poetic key
This from ABC (Australia) from a few years back — audio and transcript — featuring two chaps who made it over to London for MOA 2001. The fresh Oakeshott images below by Brian John Spencer. a companion to michael oakeshottBrian John Spencerian tragenzaMichael Oakeshottpeter colemanPolitical philosophy
Rationalism in law
Graham Gee and Grégoire Webber’s article now available in the Modern Law Review. Michael OakeshottOakeshottphilosophical jurisprudencephilosophy of lawPolitical philosophyrationalismThomas Hobbes
Oakeshott on Science as a Mode of Experience
Here is the intro to Byron’s essay from the Zygon symposium.. The obvious outcome of our total experience is that the world can be handled according to many systems of ideas, and is so handled by different men . . . science and religion are genuine keys for unlocking the world’s treasure house. Neither is…
Marsalis and Oakeshott on conversation
Wynton Marsalis: Great jazz requires a strange alchemy of instinct and expertise, of empathy and teamwork from its musicians Jazz teaches you how to be a person, and how to ripen your personhood through empathy Michael Oakeshott from The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind: Conversation . . . was . . . the very…
Deep Cuts from a Companion to Oakeshott
This is the first in series of extracts that caught my eye while rereading the Companion. The following is from Bob Grant’s chapter The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love: But Michael was the least materialist, or materialistic, of men. He always believed in the “otherworld” and also that, like Kant’s realm of freedom, it…
