Promoting critical discussion of British philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90)
Leslie Marsh and Paul Franco’s forthcoming Companion to Michael Oakeshott now has its own companion web site. Although the book still does not get a mention on the web site of the publisher, Penn State University Press, the chapter line-up …
Are adverbial rules enough? Michael Oakeshott famously distinguished the character of a state, as opposed to an enterprise association, as something that derives from the imposition of adverbial constraints on action rather than the adoption of social goals. Oliver Letwin …
Oakeshott Memorial Lecture, LSE, 19th October 2011 Read more »
The program for this month’s tenth Michael Oakeshott Association conference is now available for download as a PDF.
I only recently stumbled upon this article about Oakeshott in the 1968 issue of New Individualist Review, but since it is freely readable online it deserves to be noted. Jay Sigler discusses Oakeshott’s political thought, focusing on the essays in …
The George Feaver Young Scholars Fund, administered by the Michael Oakeshott Association (MOA), is seeking applications for grants enabling attendance at the fifth MOA conference to be held at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma from October 13-16, 2011 …