Kenneth Minogue (September 11, 1930–June 28, 2013)
It is with sadness that I report the death of Professor Kenneth Minogue, the first MOA President.
Promoting critical discussion of British philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90)
It is with sadness that I report the death of Professor Kenneth Minogue, the first MOA President.
The digitisation of The Spectator magazine’s archives from 1828 to 2008 offers a fair few gems for Oakeshottians. One such gem is “Philosopher of Conversation“, John Casey’s 1985 profile of Oakeshott. It has many remarks that gain extra interest in …
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Graham Macdonald’s profile of Oakeshott in History Today (which, it transpires, is now behind a paywall – it wasn’t when we linked to it in back March) has prompted a reader to reply with a curious anecdote about Oakeshott’s lecturing …
The London School of Economics’ Department of Law is having a two-day conference this week (as in, 20-21 June, 2013) on the theme of “Law, Liberty and the State”. The works of Michael Oakeshott, F.A. Hayek and Carl Schmitt relating …
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Critic and literary historian D.G. Myers has posted on his blog a copy of a letter he received from Michael Oakeshott in March 1990.