Promoting critical discussion of British philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90)
Over at his blog Man Without Qualities, Leslie Marsh has recently posted a couple of Oakeshott curiosities. One is a link to Time magazine’s 1950 story about Oakeshott’s appointment to the LSE, which it seems is now online along with …
According to the historian of medieval Europe, R.W. Southern: The success of a writer must be judged not only by the continuing study of his works, but — even more emphatically — by later scholars improving or enlarging his works, …
Leslie Marsh has drawn our attention to the death of George Feaver, who contributed to several of the MO Association’s Conferences, and of Bernard Crick, who once dubbed Oakeshott “the lonely nihilist” of the LSE, and who much later described …
Leslie Marsh has posted on his blog a rare late photograph of Oakeshott, which he dates to Durham circa 1985.
Taken Unseriously, by Andrew Sullivan (1991)