Reviews of Primary Sources
Jay Sigler on Oakeshott from 1968
I only recently stumbled upon this article about Oakeshott in the 1968 issue of New Individualist Review, but since it is freely readable online it deserves to be noted. Jay Sigler discusses Oakeshott’s political thought, focusing on the essays in Rationalism in Politics but also drawing out its relationship with Oakeshott’s philosophy as expressed in [...]
2 old reviews of Experience and its Modes
A 1934 review of EM‘s first edition and a 1968 review sparked by the 1966 reprint, posted by Leslie Marsh on his blog
Posthumous Publication Revisited
The posthumous publication of work by Michael Oakeshott has attracted some withering criticism in recent times. Kenneth McIntyre, in a 2005 review of What is History? and other essays, Luke O’Sullivan and Imprint Academic’s first anthology of Michael Oakesott’s writings, identified 3 questions relating to the publication of such material: 1. Since Michael Oakeshott had [...]
Review of Oakeshott’s Lectures in the History of Political Thought (Peter Coleman, 2006)
Escaping Plato’s Cave is Peter Coleman’s review of Oakeshott’s Lectures in the History of Political Thought. It was first published in the April 2006 edition of Australia’s Quadrant magazine. Coleman includes some brief observations on the differences between the published texts of the lectures (which date from the late 1960s) and the versions he heard [...]
Review of What is History? and other essays (Jonathan Sumption, 2004)
Sworn enemy of the Gradgrinds is Jonathan Sumption’s review of What is History? and other essays. The review was originally published in The Spectator (2004)