Philosophy

A Double Agent in the Dream of Michael Oakeshott (Robert Orr, 1983)

The original version of "A Double Agent in the Dream of Michael Oakeshott", Robert Orr’s critique of the changes in Oakeshott’s philosophy, a paper presented to the Canadian Political Studies Association’s 1983 meeting (Vancouver)
Of related interest: Memoir of Oakeshott’s friend and colleague, Robert Orr, by Anthony Farr (2004)


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)


5 articles from the archive of the journal History of Political Thought

Politics in a Different Mode: An Appreciation of Michael Oakeshott, 1901-1990, by David Boucher, 1991
Michael Oakeshott on Life: Waiting with Godot, by Glenn Worthington, 1995
Michael Oakeshott on History, Practice and Political Theory, by Thomas W. Smith, 1996
The Life of Hobbes in the Writings of Michael Oakeshott, by Ian Tregenza, 1997
Michael Oakeshott on European Political History, [...]


2001 MOA conference essays

The inaugural MOA Conference was held at the London School of Economics in September, 2001. As a memento of the conference, the MOA published a monograph edited by Leslie Marsh, copies of which were distributed to participants. It included the following articles:

Michael Oakeshott as a Character, by Kenneth Minogue
Encounters with Michael Oakeshott, by Timothy Fuller
Why [...]


Oakeshott and Hume: the Limits of Abstract Reason (Wendell John Coats, 2000)

This article on Oakeshott and David Hume is a chapter from Wendell John Coats Jr.’s book, Oakeshott and His Contemporaries: Montaigne, Augustine, Hegel, et al (2000).
Also available is Corey Abel’s review of Coats’ book.