Biographical
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 [...]
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 [...]
Vale George Feaver and Bernard Crick
Leslie Marsh has drawn our attention to the death of George Feaver, who contributed to several of the MO Association’s Conferences, and of Bernard Crick, who once dubbed Oakeshott “the lonely nihilist” of the LSE, and who much later described himself in a conference as a “sort of left-wing Oakeshottian”.
Oakeshott as seen late in life
Leslie Marsh has posted on his blog a rare late photograph of Oakeshott, which he dates to Durham circa 1985.
Taken Unseriously (Andrew Sullivan, 1991)
Taken Unseriously, by Andrew Sullivan (1991)
Memoir of Oakeshott’s friend Robert Orr (Anthony Farr, 2004)
Memoir of Oakeshott’s friend and colleague, Robert Orr, by Anthony Farr (2004)
Of related interest: the original, conference paper version of "A Double Agent in the Dream of Michael Oakeshott", Robert Orr’s critique of the changes in Oakeshott’s philosophy
Michael Joseph Oakeshott 1901—1990 (Nevil Johnson, 1993)
Nevil Johnson’s obituary for Oakeshott was originally published in the Proceedings of the British Academy (1993)