Archive for March, 2009
Oakeshott and the Universities 1949
The Time magazine archive discloses a few of Oakeshott’s (amongst other people’s) thoughts from 1949 on the problem facing universities.
Recent posts by Leslie Marsh
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 the magazine’s entire archive.
Philosospher of Conversation
Leslie’s other recent Oakeshott post was Philosopher of Conversation, about [...]
Why you must login to comment
Over at the blog Single World of Ideas there is a follow-up post to my discussion of Ken McIntyre and that blog’s views on posthumous Oakeshott publications.
The author mentions that he (or she) attempted to post the rejoinder as a comment on the MOA site, but abandoned the attempt when confronted by the login screen.
As [...]
Who did Oakeshott Influence?
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, and going on to follow a similar method with similar material.”
R.W. Southern, Scholastic Humanism and the [...]