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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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Oct 6, 2015 · Michael Oakeshott and the conversation of modern political thought. Luke Philip Plotica SUNY Press, New York, 2015, 224pp., ISBN: 978-1438455358. Plotica has performed a major service by writing a book that shows in measured and careful fashion how Oakeshott’s work relates to several of the major schools of thought that have formed the ...
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Oct 20, 2013 · A paper presented to the biennial meeting of the Michael Oakeshott Association, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 28, 2013. by Wilfred M. McClay. M y title refers, of course, to Oakeshott’s celebrated essay, “ The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind ,” to which frequent reference has been made these past ...
Michael Oakeshott’s father, Joseph Oakeshott, was a member of the Fabian Society, a socialist but not radical organization (its symbol was the tortoise), many of whose members participated in establishing the British Labor Party.
Michael Oakeshott, as adept and intriguing a participant and proponent as the conversation has had in this century. Like Hobbes, whose work he has admired and illuminated, Oakeshott has been as immune to time as his writings have been immune to categorical stereotyping. He seems, in his seventies, to be gathering
Mar 8, 2016 · 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. His ideas spring from a lifetime of reading in the literature of European thought, sharpened ...
Jan 2, 2016 · Building from Oakeshott’s concept of conversation as an engagement among a plurality of voices “without symposiarch or arbiter” to dictate its course, Plotica explores several fundamental and recurring themes of Oakeshott’s philosophical and political writings: individual agency, tradition, the state, and democracy.
