Companion to Michael Oakeshott

Paul Franco is Professor of Government at Bowdoin College.Leslie Marsh is Assistant Director of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies and a Research Associate in the Dean’s Office of the Medical School at the University of British Columbia.

“This timely collection brings together an important set of essays exploring various aspects of the philosophy of Michael Oakeshott. For those unacquainted with Oakeshott's brilliant but sometimes enigmatic writings on civil association, history, the nature of human experience, education, and political authority, this volume stands as a tribute to his growing intellectual stature in the twenty-first century. It shows just how far Oakeshott studies in the Anglophone world have come in the past two decades, and it lays out a path for where they might productively go in the future.”—Richard Boyd, Georgetown University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPaul Franco and Leslie Marsh1The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in LoveRobert GrantPart One: The Conversation of Mankind2The Victim of Thought: The Idealist InheritanceDavid Boucher3Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of PhilosophyKenneth McIntyre4Michael Oakeshott’s Philosophy of HistoryGeoffrey Thomas5Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael OakeshottTimothy Fuller6The Religious Sensibility of Michael OakeshottElizabeth Corey7Whatever It Turns Out to Be: Oakeshott on Aesthetic ExperienceCorey Abel8Un Début dans la Vie Humaine: Michael Oakeshott on EducationPaul FrancoPart Two: Political Philosophy9Michael Oakeshott on the History of Political ThoughtMartyn Thompson10Oakeshott and HobbesNoel Malcolm11The Fate of Rationalism in Oakeshott’s ThoughtKenneth Minogue12Oakeshott and Hayek: Situating the MindLeslie Marsh13Oakeshott as ConservativeRobert Devigne14Oakeshott on Civil AssociationNoël O’Sullivan15Oakeshott on LawSteven GerencserNotes on ContributorsIndex