Political Thought
Is Oakeshott still Underrated?
Back in October, 2009, Timothy Fuller wished publicly, in Standpoint Magazine that English Conservatives would pay more attention to what Oakeshott could teach them about the “conservative disposition”.
Marsh’s challenge: Oakeshott’s Self-Contradiction
Constructivism and Relativism in Oakeshott is possibly the most critical paper about Oakeshott’s thought published in recent years. As usually seems to be the case with Leslie Marsh’s writing, the paper is the product of much thought and reflection; he trialled a version at the 2003 MOA Conference, and it was finally published 2 years [...]
Ken Minogue on the Elusive Oakeshott
In The American Conservative, Kenneth Minogue has written about why Oakeshott can be understood as someone who was both a philosopher and a conservative, as distinct from a conservative philosopher.
Gene Callahan on Rationalism in Politics
Gene Callaghan has an article in the Freeman (January, 2009 edition) that discusses Oakeshott’s critique of Rationalism in Politics and finds real-world support for it in the case of the 1950s-60s urban planning that gave many Western nations our crime-ridden high-rise ghettos.
Conservatism and Classical Liberalism: A Rapproachment (Sam Roggeveen, 1999)
Comment: Conservatism and Classical Liberalism: A Rapproachment, by Sam Roggeveen, from Policy (1999). Policy is the magazine of the Australian classical liberal think-tank the Centre for Independent Studies.
EJPT Special Issue on Oakeshott
The European Journal of Political Theory has released a special issue devoted to Michael Oakeshott. Contributors include David Boucher, Efraim Podoksik and Glenn Worthington. Access is restricted, but single-article and 24-hour accounts are available for purchase.
Update (25 October 2006): This issue of the journal has now been released as a special free sample.
Update (1 January [...]
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)