Promoting critical discussion of British philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90)
For several years we have known that the 1975 version of Oakeshott’s famous Introduction to Hobbes’s Leviathan has been available for free online, courtesy of Liberty Fund’s Online Library of Liberty. Leslie Marsh has now drawn our attention to the …
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“Tory anarchist” Daniel McCarthy has posted some thoughts on the differences between Oakeshott and Allan Bloom’s views of education in The American Conservative magazine
An email message from Amazon.com has just drawn my attention to the fact that the site is — for a limited time — offering a substantial discount on one soon-to-be-published Oakeshott book. The book is Michael Oakeshott by Edmund Neill, …
You can still register for November’s MOA conference in Texas. The registration period for the conference has been extended until 15 October. Read more about the conference on the conference page.
The draft conference program does not give away much about the keynote speeches. We can reveal a little more. Timothy Fuller, entering with gusto into the comparative spirit of the conference, will be looking not just at Oakeshott, Strauss and …