What can we learn from Michael Oakeshott’s effort to understand our world?
The dean of Oakeshott studies, Tim Fuller, has an online talk scheduled on the 29th. Michael OakeshottTim Fuller
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Companion to Oakeshott Official Launch
The Penn State Companion will have its official launch as part of a colloquium sponsored by The Alexander Hamilton Institute and Colgate’s Center for Freedom & Western Civilization. The colloquium format will be Liberty-style except that there will be an audience. For those able to attend, you will be most welcome. The dates: Thur, April…
Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott
Here are some deep excerpts (the fifth in the series) from the dean of Oakeshott studies, Tim Fuller. In short, the practical life is constituted in efforts to alter our existence as we currently understand it or to ward off alterations that threaten what we at present take to be satisfactory. Initiating change or defending against…
Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott
Here is the “dean” of Oakeshott exposition, Tim Fuller, and a taster from his essay for the Companion. My intention is to reflect on two themes that run through the whole of Oakeshott’s thought: first, the radical temporality of the human condition and, second, the character of modernity’s response to radical temporality. The first is,…
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