Samples of Oakeshott
Free samples of Oakeshott’s writing can be obtained from this site as well as a variety of other places on the web. Below is a list of the ones we know about (located at this site unless otherwise specified).
Pre-WWII
- John Locke (1932, PDF format)
- Experience and its Modes (1933):
- the complete text (external site)
- Chapter. 3, Historical Experience (PDF format)
- History and the Social Sciences (1936, PDF format)
- Dr. Leo Strauss on Hobbes (1937, external site) reprinted in Hobbes on Civil Association (2000, external site)
1940s
- Leviathan: A Myth (1947, external site) reprinted in Hobbes on Civil Association (2000, external site)
- Oakeshott’s correspondence with Karl Popper (1948, PDF format)
- The Philosophy of History (1948 BBC radio broadcast). Available in the following formats:
- transcript (PDF format)
- First lines in .mp3 format (MP3 format, 570 Kb)
- First lines in .wav format (WAV format, 6.12 Mb)
- Later lines in .mp3 format (MP3 format, 719 Kb)
- Later lines in .wav format (WAVE format, 7.73 Mb)
- Full broadcast (MP3 format, 11.8 Mb)
1960s-70s
- The Moral Life in the Writings of Thomas Hobbes (1960, external site) reprinted in Hobbes on Civil Association (2000, external site)
- Oakeshott’s response (1962, PDF format) to Richard Crossman’s review (1962, PDF format) of Oakeshott’s book Rationalism in Politics (1962)
- Oakeshott’s Letter to John Watkins about Thomas Hobbes (1963, PDF format) published in Political Theory with a Preface by Patrick Riley (2001, PDF format)
- Lectures in the History of Political Thought (1968-69). Samples available:
- Lecture 1: Introduction (PDF format)
- Lecture 23: The Character of a Modern European State (PDF format, external site)
Work and Play
(1960s?, external site) first published in First Things (1995)What is Political Theory?
(1973, PDF format) published in What is History? and other Essays (2004)- On Human Conduct, Ch. 1, On the Theoretical Understanding of Human Conduct (1975, PDF format)
- Introduction to Leviathan (1975 version, external site) reprinted in Hobbes on Civil Association (2000, external site)
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