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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.
Mar 8, 2016 · 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. His ideas spring from a lifetime of reading in the literature of European thought, sharpened by philosophical reflection on its arguments and presuppositions.
May 6, 2024 · Michael Oakeshott was a 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. In political theory, Oakeshott is best known for his critique of modern.
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.
Biography. British political philosopher Michael Joseph Oakeshott was born on December 11, 1901, in Chelsfield, Kent, one of three boys in the family of Frances and Joseph Oakeshott. In 1912 he was sent to St. George’s School in Harpenden, a progressive coeducational boarding school.
Apr 17, 2014 · A review of Notebooks, a collection of Oakeshott's unpublished writings, edited by Luke O'Sullivan. The reviewer praises Oakeshott's originality, independence and insight into politics, history and philosophy.
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Oakeshott’s public philosophical career began with a notable early work, the 1933 publication of Experience and its Modes, which owes much to the Idealist philosophy of thinkers like F.H. Bradley and Bernard Bosanquet.
