It is only recently that I learnt of the passing of George Feaver, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at UBC. He was great bar-room company who could, very articulately and with such aplomb, talk the hind legs off a donkey. Indeed, I recall one time when he had to be “pulled” off…
The latest in Imprint Academic’s Oakeshott suite is now available – Vocabulary of a Modern European State Essays and Reviews 1953-1988. The table of contents and preface can be found here and Luke O’Sullivan’s editorial introduction can be found here. modern european state
Programa Filosofia – Ceticismo x Comunicação – Michael Oakeshott. I found this on You Tube and supposedly references Oakeshott’s “The Masses in Representative Democracy”. I’ll have to ask João Carlos Espada (Catholic University of Portugal) about this.
Bernard Crick has died. About 10 years ago I had a brief correspondence with him hoping he’d be interested in attending the inaugural conference of the Michael Oakeshott Association. In Oakeshott circles, Crick was notorious for his snippy article on Oakeshott entitled “The World of Michael Oakeshott: Or the Lonely Nihilist”, Encounter, 20 (June 1963). From…
Here is my introduction to the Zygon symposium on Oakeshott to appear in the March 2009 issue. This is an uncorrected proof – do not cite.
The Michael Oakeshott Association website has been pretty much reconstituted after a technical hiccup. The domain is no longer .org; it is .com. Some wise guy has got the .org URL – THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL Oakeshott website. The MOA .com version is content-rich and has the backing of a whose who of Oakeshott…
Durham c. 1985
Here is a letter from Oakeshott to Watkins that for some reason belatedly (2001) surfaced in Political Theory: both Oakeshott and Watkins, of course, highly distinguished Hobbes interpreters. An aside. Though I never met Watkins, I happen to meet his widow Micky who was one of the “three widows” who were so gracious in their support of…
A rather belated plug for this book. The follow up is currently being edited.
Here is the collection of newly commissioned essays edited by Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh forthcoming from Penn State University Press. 1. Editorial Introduction (Paul Franco & Leslie Marsh) The editors give an overview of the importance of Oakeshott to 20th Century philosophy and account for the abiding interest in Oakeshott’s work. 2. The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism…
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