Is Severus Snape an Oakeshottian?
An extract from one of the chapters earmarked for Bakhurst and Fairfield’s forthcoming book on Oakeshott and education: “Pedagogy and other defenses against the dark arts”.
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Oakeshott, Coleridge and Burke in Vancouver
Canada’s Simon Fraser University has scheduled a Continuing Studies course for September, 2015 in Vancouver, on “Considering Conservatism: Stability and Social Continuity”. The course will focus on Edmund Burke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Michael Oakeshott, and costs “$169” (although adults …
Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism Today
May 2015 saw Palgrave Macmillan release an anthology exploring Michael Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism. Edited by long-term Oakeshottian Terry Nardin, the volume includes papers from a conference held three years ago at South Korea’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies. The …
Corey and Orsi Attract Attention
Nomocracy in Politics has republished Elizabeth Corey’s article, “Oakeshott’s Ideal of the Liberal State”, which was earlier published by the Library of Law and Liberty in 2012. Meanwhile, Davide Orsi’s article “Michael Oakeshott’s political philosophy of civil association and constructivism …
Epstein on Oakeshott
Joseph Epstein, writing in the 15 June, 2015 edition of The Weekly Standard, considers Michael Oakeshott as “The Conversationalist”.