Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss: The Politics of Renaissance and Enlightenment
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Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy
In “Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy,” Kenneth McIntyre continues the discussion of Oakeshott’s conception of philosophy begun by Boucher but takes a somewhat different view. Though he admits that Oakeshott’s conception of philosophy as a fundamentally skeptical activity devoted to relentless interrogation of the conditions of human understanding remains unchanged…
The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance
In “The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance,” David Boucher examines the relationship of this theory of knowledge or experience to philosophical—and especially British—idealism. He makes two fundamental points about this relationship. First, he argues that although idealism was on the wane in Britain the 1920s and 1930s, Oakeshott’s brand of idealism was hardly as…
The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love
What about his private, intimate life? This brings us to the first essay in this volume, Robert Grant’s “The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love.” As the title suggests, this essay is concerned with Oakeshott’s love life, which he considered to be not merely peripheral but in many ways the main business of his…
Oakeshott: born on this day
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…
Oakeshott: Philosophy, Poetry, and Conservatism
Today marks the deadline for submissions. ConservatismLiberalismMichael OakeshottPhilosophyPoetry
Learning for Life: Political Education According to Michael Oakeshott
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 —…
Oakeshott Association: Call for Papers
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…
Ways of Relating to the Mathematics of the Past
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
Oakeshott on Education
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
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