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Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (/ ˈ oʊ k ʃ ɒ t /; 11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote on the philosophies of history, religion, aesthetics, education, and law.
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Mar 8, 2016 · Michael Oakeshott. First published Tue Mar 8, 2016; substantive revision Thu Feb 1, 2024. Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) is often called a conservative thinker. But this label identifies only one aspect of his thought and invites misunderstanding because it is ambiguous.
Michael Oakeshott (born December 11, 1901, Chelsfield, Kent, England—died December 18, 1990, Acton, Dorset) British political theorist, philosopher, and educator whose work belongs to the philosophical tradition of objective idealism. He is regarded as an important and singular conservative thinker.
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A brief biography of Michael Oakeshott, a British political philosopher who wrote about the history of political thought, the nature of political association, and the role of politics in human happiness. Learn about his life, education, career, publications, and influence.
Michael Oakeshott, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, is a philosopher’s philosopher. He had a unique point of view, and a coherent way of looking at life, clearly expressed in wonderfully elegant prose. Oakeshott was also utterly indifferent to fashion in academic, political and philosophical life, and pursued obscurity to a point of near public ...
During the late 1940s and early 1950s Oakeshott began to publish a variety of essays, all of which dealt more or less with politics. One of his most famous essays is a long introduction to Hobbes’s Leviathan, published in the Blackwell edition he edited in 1946. Most of the other significant essays he wrote during these years were eventually ...
An introduction to the thought of the British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901 - 1990). Features essays, multimedia, and more.
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