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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…
Cosmos + Taxis: themed issue on Oakeshott
Issue 1:3 now available. complexitycosmos & taxisFriedrich HayekMichael Oakeshottphilosophy of social sciencerationalism
Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopaedia of Behavioral Economics
Coming soon. amos tveskyBehavioral economicsbrain imagingcomplexityDaniel KahnemanDecision makingFriedrich HayekHerbert SimonmdiMichael Oakeshottmorris altmanneuroplasticityReal World Decision Making: An Encyclopaedia of Behavioral Economicssituated cognitionSpontaneous orderthe pretense of knowledge
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…
Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks, 1922-86
Here is the latest volume from Imprint. Be sure to listen to the podcast featuring the editor, Luke O’Sullivan and Jesse Norman, MP. Michael Oakeshottnotebooks
David Malet Armstrong
My chum Andrew Irvine has a terrific piece “David Armstrong and Australian Materialism” along with a Reader’s Guide in the latest issue of Quadrant. Andrew mentions that Armstrong attended Oakeshott’s History of Political Thought lectures earlier on his career when he had a stint at Birkbeck. I’d forgotten this unlikely connection: Armstrong had mentioned this to…
Political Studies Review of Oakeshott Companion
Here is a very warm review of Paul and my Companion. A Companion to Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh (eds). Pennsylvania PA: Penn State Press, 2012. 346pp., £52.95, ISBN 978 0 271 05407 0 The publication of this Companion by Penn State Press is proof of the increasing recognition of Oakeshott’s philosophical…
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
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