Oakeshott and contemporaries
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 [...]
2 obituaries for Jack Greenleaf
W. H. (“Jack”) Greenleaf wrote Oakeshott’s Philosophical Politics (1966) – for many years the best introduction to Oakeshott’s thought that was available, and one that still repays consideration today. His multi-volume The British Political Tradition is built around the post-war Oakeshott’s theory that individualism and collectivism represent the twin poles between which modern politics constantly [...]
The Importance of Oakeshott to Polanyi Studies (Walter Mead, 2004/05)
Not strictly new but new to me (and maybe to some of you, too) is a discussion of Oakeshott in the 2004-05 volume of Tradition & Society, the Polanyi Society periodical.
The piece, The Importance of Michael Oakeshott to Polanyi Studies, is by Walter Mead
(Tradition & Society, 2004-05)
2 Papers from the Eric Voegelin Society’s 18th Annual Meeting, 2002
Wendell John Coats Jnr, Three Views of Leviathan – Oakeshott, Strauss, Voegelin
Elizabeth C. Corey, Voegelin and Oakeshott on Hobbes: Gnostic but not Rationalist?
Oakeshott and von Mises on Human Action (Gene Callahan, 2003)
“Oakeshott and von Mises on Understanding Human Action”, by Gene Callahan (Ludwig von Mises Institute Working Paper, 2003)
Update (1 January 2007): Gene Callahan’s working paper has now graduated to be a published article in The Independent Review (2005)
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
Human Conduct, History, and Social Science in the Works of R. G. Collingwood and Michael Oakeshott (David Boucher, 1993)
Human Conduct, History, and Social Science in the Works of R. G. Collingwood and Michael Oakeshott, by David Boucher , was first published in the journal New Literary History, Vol. 24 (1993)