Archive for January, 2011
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 [...]
Early political writings
A new Oakeshott primary source appeared in late 2010, to complement the three secondary sources published around that time. The new book is Michael Oakeshott: Early Political Writings 1925-30: ‘A Discussion of Some Matters Preliminary to the Study of Political Philosophy’ and ‘The Philosophical Approach to Politics”). Edited by Luke O’Sullivan, the new anthology contains [...]