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Oakeshott’s place in the Big Society
A pingback from an LSE blog has alerted us to a new book that apparently bears the marks of Oakeshott’s influence. Jesse Norman, British Conservative and local campaigner, has been a long-time Oakeshottian. He edited one of the first posthumous anthologies on Oakeshott, The Achievement of Michael Oakeshott (Duckworth, London, 1993). Now he has reportedly [...]
A second Oakeshott conference
It looks like this year’s tenth anniversary MOA conference, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is not going to be the only conference devoted to Oakeshott this October. A joint Spanish-American effort has announced its own colloquium on Oakeshott, to be held at California State University.
Oakeshott, Dewey and democratic skepticism
Oakeshott’s “skepticism” and “non-foundationalism” seem to be topics of growing interest. The theme was picked up by Aryeh Botwinick in his recently released book, and in December a (relatively) new voice joined the choir. Conor Williams, summarising his recently defended dissertation, declared: Despite their surface-level differences [one a political progressive, the other decidedly not] there [...]
2011 MOA Conference: Call for Papers
Religion, Politics and the Future of Liberal Education The Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the Michael Oakeshott Association, 2001-2011 UNIVERSITY OF TULSA OCTOBER 13-16, 2011 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Michael Oakeshott Association, a group established to encourage the critical study of one of the twentieth century’s most important political philosophers. [...]
Update on The Meanings of Oakeshott’s Conservatism
Sadly, Imprint Academic’s “See inside” link for the new book, The Meanings of Oakeshott’s Conservatism, does not work. Happily, thanks to the book’s editor, Corey Abel (who is also the MO Association’s current President), we can provide you with a downloadable preview of the table of contents (PDF format). As previously mentioned, a draft version [...]