Tradition v. Rationalism
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Symposium on Gerald Gaus’s The Tyranny of the Ideal
Coming soon featuring this stellar lineup (to keep apprised of updates see here): Introduction to Symposium on Gerald Gaus’ The Tyranny of the Ideal — Ryan Muldoon The Imperative of Complexity — Scott E. Page The Tyranny of a Metaphor — David Wiens How Can We do Political Philosophy? — Fred D’Agostino Public Reason in the Open…
Richard Flathman: The Reluctant Liberal
Richard Flathman who died last year has a posthumous collection of essays coming out within the year. I’ve always had a high regard for RF since he seemed far more philosophically informed (analytically speaking) than most other political philosophers of his generation. Thus we got on very well when he chaired a panel I was…
The Secret People
David Marquand in the New Statesman on “something is stirring among Chesterton’s secret people”. Here is a review of Marquand’s Mammon’s Kingdom: An Essay on Britain England and the English now face the primordial questions that face all self-conscious political communities: “Who are we?”, “Who do we want to be?” At bottom, these questions are philosophical, in a…
Alan Ryan’s On Politics: A History of Political Philosophy
Nice review in The Economist. I’ve always liked Ryan’s work especially his edited Social Explanation and Russell: A Political Life. It is also important that, as Mr Ryan puts it, “long-dead writers often speak to us with greater freshness and immediacy than our contemporaries.” James Madison has the best advice for Egyptian liberals who want to prevent Muhammad…
Oakeshott as Conservative
Rob Devigne (or maybe it’s really Jack Nicholson) looks at Oakeshott’s ostensibly conservative stance – as several in this volume point out, this is very tricky territory indeed. Oakeshott is not a conservative that even most self-avowed conservatives would typically recognise. The identification of Michael Oakeshott with conservatism is fraught with debate. To be sure, some…
Discount on Oakeshott Companion
In anticipation of the publication date (October) Penn State University Press are offering a 20% discount off the cover price of A Companion to Michael Oakeshott – download form here. Michael OakeshottPenn State University Press
Antifoundationalist in spite of himself?
Here’s a review of Aryeh Botwinick’s recent book Michael Oakeshott’s Skepticism by my co-editor Paul Franco. Here is the opening salvo: This is a strange book. From the title, one might expect that it would take up Oakeshott’s complicated understanding and deployment of skepticism throughout his philosophical career; perhaps also his relationship to such favorite skeptical…
Oakeshott in French
Adrien Guillemin tells me that that the French translation of Michael Oakeshott’s “On Being Conservative” has been released by Les Editions du Félin in Paris with a Preface and a biographical epilogue. He continues: “The book has already been welcomed by a nice editorial in Le Monde and one on the cultural channel of Radio France.”…
Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott
Efraim Podoksik’s The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott is now available. Check out Efraim’s intro. British IdealismMichael OakeshottOakeshottPhilosophyPolitical philosophy
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