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	Michael Oakeshott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oakeshott's insistence that the historian explains the past in terms of its own past was not a methodological observation but a philosophical one; he wanted to distinguish the academic perspective on the past from the practical one, in which the past is always seen in terms of its relevance to our present and future.
		Oakeshott was dismayed by the descent into political extremism that took place in Europe in the 1930s, and his surviving lectures from this period show that his dislike of National Socialism was particularly intense, though he certainly had no time for Marxism either, despite its popularity in certain sections of his own faculty at Cambridge.
		Oakeshott's opposition to what he regarded as utopian political projects is summed up in his use of the image (possibly borrowed from the Marquess of Halifax, a seventeenth-century English author whom he admired) of a metaphorical ship of state which has "neither starting-place nor appointed destination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Oakeshott (2087 words)

	Michael Oakeshott and the Political Economy of Freedom - The World and I Magazine
		Further, Oakeshott avers, there is not a single or ideal form of ethical life of which the variety of forms of life of which the variety of forms of life that we find among us are approximations.
		Oakeshott is not blind to the fact that the adoption of such a limited conception of the tasks of government would entail a transformation of current beliefs and expectations that is little short of revolutionary.
		Oakeshott's thought points not backward but forward--to a condition of post modernity in which what is left of traditional life is preserved in the context of a new self-understanding.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1988/september/mt6.cfm (3938 words)

	Books in Review: The Politics of Faith & the Politics of Scepticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Michael Oakeshott, who was born in 1901, was appointed in 1950 to the Chair of Political Science at the London School of Economics.
		Oakeshott points out that modern politics has always been heterogeneous and complex in practice, and that the politics of faith and the politics of scepticism are equally extremes that never appear in pure form.
		Oakeshott's thinking-his impressive resistance of the powerful temptation (to which his thought is not altogether immune) to turn the distrust of doctrine into a doctrine-provides a bracing antidote to the false comforts conferred by postmodern and pragmatist pieties.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9704/berkowitz.html (1509 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Modern philosopher of tradition
		Only a minority, I suspect, would nominate Michael Oakeshott; and yet, as time goes by, his claim to that title is arguably emerging as the stronger of the two.
		Oakeshott's prose, even in these treatises, is never less than lucid, but the subtlety and resolute individuality of his thinking can still place heavy demands on the reader.
		Similarly, Oakeshott's famous defence of "tradition" as a basis for political life is shown to be not a piece of reactionary obscurantism (as his critics on the Left always claimed) but a subtle extension of his theory of man's social nature, exploring the ways in which social values can develop and change over time.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml;sessionid=RAWGZ20CN1EVJQFIQMFCM5OAVCBQYJVC?xml=/arts/2004/08/29/bofra29.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/08/29/bomain.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=12051 (765 words)

	Terry Nardin - The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott - Reviewed by Chandran Kukathas, University of New South Wales - ...
		Oakeshott took as one of his tasks as a philosopher the understanding of human conduct.
		For Oakeshott the philosopher, then, the philosopher is not of this world, for to be a philosopher is to live a different way of life.
		Oakeshott the philosopher would give no such practical guidance, and would offer, at most, to show why some of the convictions held by cave dwellers will be revealed to be incoherentâ”illusionsâ”when held under the light of philosophical analysis.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1043 (1376 words)

	Michael Oakeshott: Rationalism and self-serving in Politics Contemporary Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		MICHAEL Oakeshott's essay 'Rationalism in Politics', first published in The Cambridge Journal in 1947 and reprinted in Oakeshott's 1962 volume Rationalism in Politics: and Other Essays, is generally recognized to be the most important single text by a philosopher who has come to be acknowledged as the leading British conservative thinker of the post-1945 era.
		Oakeshott's arguments have proved so serviceable in polemic that little attention seems to have been given to the possibility that he shared in the solipsistic errors which he denounced.
		When Oakeshott wrote Rationalism in Politics nearly sixty years ago the axiom that any observer must inherently be part of the phenomenon observed--essentially the Uncertainty Principle proposed by the physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927 but already adumbrated in Wilhelm Dilthey's Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften of 1883--was not yet the cliche it has subsequently become.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1663_285/ai_n6172493 (628 words)

	Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute
		Michael Oakeshott was one of the most elusive and intriguing intellectuals of the twentieth century.
		Oakeshott later abandoned the idea of an unbridgeable chasm separating the modes, coming to regard them as the “voices in the conversation of mankind” and therefore able to engage each other in discussion.
		Oakeshott directed the bulk of his scorn for such schemes at the social planners of the left, but he also criticized several thinkers of the right, who might have seemed his natural allies, for sharing this mistaken notion.
	www.independent.org /publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=43&articleID=554 (1571 words)

	Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Oakeshott's theory of knowledge begins by considering the relative value of different "modes" of experience – science, history, and practice, for example – and concludes that the truths produced by these systems are all contingent on subjective facts or understandings.
		Oakeshott explains: "such people appropriately understand the office of government to be the imposition upon its subjects of the condition of human circumstances of their dream.
		Oakeshott's was a conservatism of skepticism, restraint, and humility.
	www.jonathanoldstyle.net (1891 words)

	Sobran's Washington Watch --- Philosopher of Contentment
		Oakeshott took little interest in the daily events of politics; he used to say that he voted for the Tories because “they are likely to do less harm” than Labour.
		For Oakeshott, politics could never be a science; it was a sort of “conversation,” to use one of his pet words, in which there was no final victory or conclusion.
		Oakeshott avoids the customary vocabulary of modern politics, even conservative politics; if you read him expecting the familiar language of political discourse, you’ll be disappointed, baffled, frustrated.
	www.sobran.com /wanderer/w2003/w030522.shtml (1083 words)

	Michael Oakeshott: Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays - Bøger
		Oakeshott was pigeon-holed as a "conservative" during his life but his thought is too wide-ranging and nuanced to be shoved into simple categories.
		The problem with Oakeshotts essays in the section on rationalism in politics is that after he expounds his view that with rationalisms inadequacies, political philosophy becomes muddy, he spends 300 more pages on political philosophy.
		Oakeshott wrote a complex, extended essay in definition, but I believe it is one in which many Americans will see aspects of their own lives, assuming they have the patience and the free time to dig into this heavy, sometimes difficult book.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/0865970955 (1730 words)

	Terry nardin: The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott
		Oakeshott argues that inquiry can be independent of practical concerns, even when its subject is the thought and action of human beings.
		Although the book considers Oakeshott's views on morality, law, and government, it is primarily concerned with his ideas about the character of knowledge, especially knowledge of intelligent human conduct, and focuses attention on the concepts of modality, contingency, and civility that are central to Oakeshott's philosophy as a whole.
		Nardin seeks to show how Oakeshott's critique of scientism and other forms of foundationalism supports a powerful version of the argument that history is the proper mode for understanding human choice and action.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02156-X.html (300 words)

	michael oakeshott on religion, aesthetics, and politics by elizabeth campbell corey
		Corey focuses on a wealth of early material from Oakeshott’s career that has only recently been published, as well as his acclaimed “Tower of Babel” essays, to show that these works illuminate his thinking in ways that could not have been realized prior to their publication.
		She explores Oakeshott’s recurring theme of “living one’s life in the present”; examines his explicit discussions of religion, aesthetics, and morality; and then considers his political thought in light of this moral vision.
		Her work is a major step in a reevaluation of Oakeshott, showing that his conservatism has been greatly misunderstood and that he is more properly regarded as a philosopher whose vision of the human condition, while oftentimes detached and skeptical, is also romantic and inspired.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/spring2006/corey.htm (377 words)

	The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education. - book reviews National Review - Find Articles
		MICHAEL Oakeshott speaks of "the invitation of liberal learning" as "the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves."
		Oakeshott understands education as the initiation of the young into their civilized inheritance." He understands that inheritance as a "conversation" among such forms of experience as history, poetry, science, etc., no one voice dominating or refuting the others.
		Oakeshott's own use of such Great Thinkers as Hobbes and Hegel is startlingly unorthodox, and has nothing to do with wars of every man against every man or theses, antitheses, and syntheses.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n7_v42/ai_8903661 (585 words)

	Sobran Column --- Michael Oakeshott and New Orleans
		Oakeshott was a skeptical conservative, not a partisan.
		Oakeshott called himself a conservative, but he recognized that many people who now claim that designation are just as “rationalist” as any socialist when they try to use the state to pursue their pet purposes.
		Oakeshott doesn’t tell you how to vote; without pretending to have the last word on politics, or insisting that you agree with him, he simply invites you to think.
	www.sobran.com /columns/2005/050906.shtml (793 words)

	Michael Oakeshott: What is History? and other essays
		This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of his intellectual career, and adds significantly to his contributions to the philosophy of historical understanding and political philosophy, as well as to the philosophy of education and aesthetics.
		Oakeshott’s later sceptical, ‘hermeneutic’, thought is also well represented by pieces such as ‘What is Political Theory?’ and ‘The Emergence of the History of Thought.’ Reviews of books by English and European contemporaries such as Butterfield, Hayek, Voegelin, and Arendt also help to place him in context more clearly than before.
		Oakeshott’s memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings.
	www.imprint.co.uk /idealists/Oakeshott.html (513 words)

	DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln \| Michael Oakeshott's critique of modernity: Science, ideology, and ...
		Modernism, for Michael Oakeshott, is an intellectual movement that considers itself definitive of moral and political reasons for action.
		It is, in short, the “cult of man.” The scientific approach to things political leads to that specifically modern institution, ideology, or a series of logically coherent propositions, dogmatically held, that claim to exhaust the subject matter of political and social life.
		For Oakeshott, it cannot be this; it is indeed merely what a cookbook is to the art of cooking.
	digitalcommons.unl.edu /dissertations/AAI9929208 (398 words)

	Michael Oakeshott -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		One of Michael Oakeshott's essays is entitled "The role of poetry in the conversation of mankind".
		But this knowledge, in turn, is of a particular kind, since extremes never (or rarely) reveal themselves in their pure form and can be again only "imagined".
		"Imagined" for Oakeshott means "experienced", not in a way empiricists fancy we experience the world "out there", but reconstructed from the only raw material that is available in the world of ideas - language.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/oakeshott_michael.htm (346 words)

	Articles
		Michael Oakeshott argues that “a university is not a machine for achieving a particular purpose or producing a particular result; it is a manner of human activity” (Oakeshott [1950] 1989, 96).
		Oakeshott’s vision of a university as a manner of human activity driven by skills and not by any other purpose contradicts Ezzy’s idea of a research driven by social and political purposes.
		Oakeshott’s idea of a university is not able to survive in the 21st century but it has something in common with modern view of scholarship presented by Ezzy – the idea of dialog, conversation and thinking that should be a basis for the new idea of a university.
	www.personal.ceu.hu /students/05/Inna_Viriasova/articles.html (1159 words)

	Oakeshott in the Real World - Sam Roggeveen - Quadrant Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That is to say, much as Oakeshott spent most of his career in the seclusion of academe, and on retirement became something of a recluse, so his political philosophy has an unworldly element to it.
		The belief that politics, at their best, are the science of the arrangement and improvement of human societies in accordance with certain abstract ideals which are taken to be absolute in value and universal in application, the belief that the problems of the organization of a society are scientific problems...
		But Oakeshott worried that the enterprise model was ascendant, with debates between left and right merely “an insignificant squabble about the common purpose to be imposed upon a state already assumed to be a purposive association”.
	www.quadrant.org.au /php/article_view.php?article_id=1105 (1575 words)

	Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes
		This is the first book to provide a systematic interpretation of Michael Oakeshott's philosophy as seen through Oakeshott's reading of the works of Thomas Hobbes.
		Oakeshott also developed an influential interpretation of Hobbes' work, and the author argues that Oakeshott revealed aspects of Hobbes's thought that had previously been overlooked.
		The book situates Oakeshott's reading in relation to some other important twentieth century interpretations of Hobbes and examines its significance for broader debates in political theory and the history of ideas.
	www.pdcnet.org /oakeshott.html (141 words)

	Books by Michal Oakeshott
		Both aspects of knowledge go into true knowledge of something, and the political arena is the prime example chosen by Oakeshott to prove his point.
		Applied to politics, Oakeshott's believes are truly conservative, for he blames the demise of a class of politicians (presumably an aristocratic system) who learn their profession from generation to generation.
		Science is not a mechanistic, cook book profession, but is pursued by truly involved people who are scientists and who learn their profession during many years of working for a professor.
	www.whatislife.com /reviews/oakeshott.htm (801 words)

	Conservative Book Club: Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco
		Since his death in 1990, Michael Oakeshott has increasingly been recognized as one of the greatest conservative philosophers of the 20th century.
		An essential introduction to the whole range of Oakeshott's thought, Michael Oakeshott sets the philosopher's work in historical context while also demonstrating its relevance to contemporary debates in political philosophy.
		Oakeshott's famous defence of 'tradition' as a basis for political life is shown to be not a piece of reactionary obscurantism (as his critics on the Left always claimed) but a subtle extension of his theory of man's social nature.
	www.conservativebookclub.com /products/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6604 (331 words)

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