Michael Oakeshott

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Michael Oakeshott

Michael Joseph Oakeshott (born December 11, 1901 in Chelsfield , Kent , † December 18, 1990 in Acton , Dorset ) was an English conservative political philosopher .

Life

Oakeshott was the middle of three brothers. His father worked in the Treasury Department at Somerset House in London and was a member of the middle class. Oakeshott attended St George's school in Harpenden, which was co-educational. From October 1920 he studied at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge with a focus on the history and history of political thought. In the 1920s, Oakeshott stayed in Germany several times and visited Marburg and Tübingen . It is not certain whether he heard Heidegger there . In 1925 Oakeshott became a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He married Joyce Margaret Fricker two years later. From this marriage, which was divorced in 1938, his son Simon emerged.

Oakeshott's major early work was published in 1933: Experience and Its Modes , which presents an in-depth analysis of the various modes of experience in comparison with philosophy and a radical conception of philosophy. During the Second World War he served as an artilleryman in a reconnaissance unit.

In 1946, edited Oakeshott the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes was a widely acclaimed introduction, a standard work of Hobbes research. After a short time at Nuffield College in Oxford , he was appointed to the London School of Economics , where he gave his famous inaugural lecture on "Political Education" in 1951, which was a declaration of war against the then widespread socialist ideas. At that time Oakeshott wrote the essays, which were to appear in 1961 under the title Rationalism in Politics , a fundamental critique of a specifically modern form of rationalism, which Oakeshott attacked with stylistic brilliance.

In 1966 Oakeshott became a Fellow of the British Academy , and in 1969 he retired as a professor, but he continued to teach and research afterwards. In 1974 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . After much work, Oakeshott's political-philosophical legacy appeared in 1975 under the simple title On Human Conduct , which offers a philosophically dense analysis of three complexes: the theoretical understanding of human behavior and the human way of life; the civil status; the character of a modern European state. In 1983, the collection of essays On History and Other Essays was published , which seeks to clarify earlier ideas about the character of history as an event and as historiography. Oakeshott also discusses fundamental aspects of what he calls the "rule of law". In addition, he provides a multi-layered retelling of the story of the Tower of Babel with a culturally critical point.

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  • 1933. Experience and Its Modes . Cambridge University Press
  • 1936. A Guide to the Classics, or, How to Pick the Derby . With GT Griffith. London: Faber and Faber
  • 1939. The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • 1941. The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe , 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • 1942. The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe with five additional prefaces by FA Ogg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • 1947. A New Guide to the Derby: How to Pick the Winner . With GT Griffith. London: Faber and Faber
  • 1955. La Idea de Gobierno en la Europa Moderna . Madrid: Ateneo
  • 1962. Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays . London: Methuen (Expanded edition - 1991, by Liberty Fund)
  • 1966. Rationalism in Politics . (trans. K. Streifthau) Neuwied and Berlin: Luchterhand
  • 1975. On Human Conduct . Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • 1975. Hobbes on Civil Association . Oxford: Basil Blackwell
  • 1983. On History and Other Essays . Basil Blackwell
  • 1985. La Condotta Umana . Bologna: Società Editrice il Mulino
  • 1989. The Voice of Liberal Learning . New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Posthumously

  • 1991. Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays . Indianapolis: Liberty Press
  • 1993. Morality and Politics in Modern Europe . New Haven: Yale University Press
  • 1993. Religion, Politics, and the Moral Life . New Haven: Yale University Press
  • 1996. The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Skepticism . New Haven: Yale University Press
  • 2000. Confidence and Skepticism: Two Principles of Modern Politics . (trans. C. Goldmann). Berlin: Fixed
  • 2004. What Is History? And other essays . Thorverton: Imprint Academic
  • 2006. Lectures in the History of Political Thought . Thorverton: Imprint Academic
  • 2007. The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence: Essays and Reviews 1926-51 . Thorverton: Imprint Academic
  • 2008. The Vocabulary of a European State: Essays and Reviews 1952-88 . Thorverton: Imprint Academic
  • 2010. Early Political Writings 1925-30 . Thorverton: Imprint Academic

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SURNAME Oakeshott, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oakeshott, Michael Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English conservative political philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Chelsfield , Kent
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1990
Place of death Acton