Author Archive
Franco-Marsh Companion Comes Closer
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 has reportedly been finalized. To mark this milestone, Leslie has created a new site for [...]
Oakeshott Memorial Lecture, LSE, 19th October 2011
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 [explores] the extent to which this is, and the extent to which it is not, [...]
2011 MOA Conference Program
The program for this month’s tenth Michael Oakeshott Association conference is now available for download as a PDF.
Jay Sigler on Oakeshott from 1968
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 Rationalism in Politics but also drawing out its relationship with Oakeshott’s philosophy as expressed in [...]
MOA Conference Travel Grants now open
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 on the theme of “Religion, Politics and the Future of Liberal Education“. The focus of [...]