Michael Oakeshott - Wikipedia Michael Oakeshott From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Michael Oakeshott Born Michael Joseph Oakeshott (1901-12-11)11 December 1901 Chelsfield, London, England, United Kingdom Died 19 December 1990(1990-12-19) (aged 89) Acton, England, United Kingdom Alma mater Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School British idealism[1] Liberal conservatism[2] Main interests History of philosophy Intellectual history History of political thought Philosophy of religion Philosophy of history Political philosophy Notable ideas Adverbial conditions Influences Plato Aristotle Hobbes Spinoza Kant Burke Hegel Tönnies Simmel Bradley Dilthey Collingwood Pater Influenced J. G. A. Pocock Maurice Cowling Gertrude Himmelfarb Margaret Thatcher Andrew Sullivan John N. Gray Hayden White Leo Strauss Richard E. Flathman Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (/ˈoʊkʃɒt/; 11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of law.[3] Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and education 1.2 1930s 1.3 Second World War 1.4 Postwar 2 Philosophy 2.1 Early works 2.2 Philosophy and modes of experience 2.3 Post-war essays 2.4 On Human Conduct and Oakeshott's political theory 2.5 Philosophy of history 2.6 Other works 3 Bibliography 3.1 Posthumous 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links Biography[edit] Early life and education[edit] Oakeshott was the son of Joseph Francis Oakeshott, a civil servant (divisional head in the Inland Revenue)[4] and member of the Fabian Society,[5] and Frances Maude, daughter of Thomas Hellicar, a wealthy Islington silk-merchant.[4] He was related by marriage to the women's rights activist Grace Oakeshott[6] and the economist and social reformer Gilbert Slater.[7] The life peer Matthew Oakeshott and the journalist Isabel Oakeshott are of the same family.[8] Michael Oakeshott attended St George's School, Harpenden, from 1912 to 1920. He enjoyed his schooldays, and the Headmaster, Cecil Grant, later became a friend.[citation needed] George Bernard Shaw was a friend. In 1920, Oakeshott became an undergraduate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read history. He obtained an MA and subsequently became a Fellow. While he was at Cambridge he admired the British idealist philosophers J. M. E. McTaggart and John Grote, and the medieval historian Zachary Nugent Brooke. The historian Herbert Butterfield was a contemporary and fellow member of the Junior Historians society.[citation needed] 1930s[edit] Oakeshott was dismayed by the political extremism that occurred in Europe during the 1930s, and his surviving lectures from this period reveal a dislike of National Socialism and Marxism.[9] Second World War[edit] Although Oakeshott, in his essay "The Claim of Politics" (1939), defended the right of individuals not to become directly involved, he joined the British Army in 1941. He reportedly wished to join the Special Operations Executive (SOE), but the military decided that his appearance was "too unmistakably English" for him to conduct covert operations on the Continent.[10] He was on active service in Europe with the intelligence unit Phantom, which had connections with the Special Air Service (SAS), but he was never in the front line. Postwar[edit] In 1945 Oakeshott was demobilised and returned to Cambridge. In 1947 he left Cambridge for Nuffield College, Oxford, but after only a year there he secured an appointment as Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics (LSE), succeeding the leftist Harold Laski. Oakeshott was deeply unsympathetic to the student activism at LSE during the late 1960s, on the grounds that it disrupted the work of the university. He retired from the LSE in 1969. In his retirement he retreated to live quietly in a country cottage in Langton Matravers in Dorset with his third wife. He was divorced twice and had numerous affairs, some of them with wives of his students and colleagues, and even with a girlfriend of his son Simon.[11] He also had a son born out of wedlock, named Sebastian. Oakeshott's most famous lover was Iris Murdoch.[12] Oakeshott lived long enough to experience increasing recognition, although he has become much more widely written about since his death. Oakeshott declined an offer to be made a Companion of Honour, for which he was proposed by Margaret Thatcher.[13] Philosophy[edit] Early works[edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (January 2009) Oakeshott's early work, some of which has been published posthumously as What is History? and Other Essays (2004) and The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence (2007), shows that he was more interested in the philosophical problems that derived from his historical studies than he was in the history, even though he was employed as a historian. Philosophy and modes of experience[edit] Oakeshott published his first book, Experience and its Modes, in 1933. He noted that the book owed much to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and F. H. Bradley;[14] commentators also noticed resemblances between this work and the ideas of thinkers such as R. G. Collingwood[15] and Georg Simmel.[16] The book argued that our experience is usually modal, in the sense that we always have a governing perspective on the world, be it practical or theoretical. There are various theoretical approaches one may take to understanding the world: natural science and history, for example, are separate modes of experience. It is a mistake, he declared, to treat history as if it ought to be practised on the model of the natural sciences. Philosophy, however, is not a modal interest. At this stage of his career Oakeshott saw philosophy as the world seen sub specie aeternitatis, literally "under the aspect of eternity", free from presuppositions, whereas science and history and the practical mode rely on certain assumptions. Later (there is some disagreement about exactly when) Oakeshott adopted a pluralistic view of the various modes of experience, with philosophy just one voice among others, though it retained its self-scrutinising character. According to Oakeshott, the dominating principles of scientific and historical thought are quantity (the world sub specie quantitatis) and being in the past (the world sub specie praeteritorum) respectively. Oakeshott distinguished the academic perspective on the past from the practical, in which the past is seen in terms of its relevance to our present and future. His insistence on the autonomy of history places him close to Collingwood, who also argued for the autonomy of historical knowledge. The practical world view (the world sub specie voluntatis) presupposes the ideas of will and of value in terms of which practical action in the arenas of politics, economics, and ethics makes sense. Because all action is conditioned by presuppositions, Oakeshott was inclined to see any attempt to change the world as reliant upon a scale of values, which themselves presuppose a context of experience. Even the conservative disposition to maintain the status quo relies upon managing inevitable change, a point he later elaborated in his essay "On Being Conservative". Post-war essays[edit] Part of a series on Conservatism Variants Cultural Fiscal Green Liberal Libertarian National Neo New Right One-nation Paleo Paternalistic Progressive Reactionary Social Traditionalist Concepts Familism Family values Private property Rule of law Communitarianism Civil Society Solidarity People Edmund Burke Joseph de Maistre Louis de Bonald François-René de Chateaubriand Samuel Taylor Coleridge Klemens von Metternich Adam Müller Benjamin Disraeli Michael Oakeshott Russell Kirk William F. Buckley George Will Roger Scruton Organizations Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe European People's Party International Democrat Union Religious conservatism Christian Democracy (in Europe) Christian right Christian fundamentalism Jewish right Islamic fundamentalism Traditionalist Catholic National variants Australia Canada China Colombia Germany Conservative Revolution State Socialism Hong Kong India New Zealand Pakistan Serbia South Korea Taiwan Turkey United Kingdom United States Related topics Aristocracy Capitalism Centre-right politics Corporatism Counter-revolutionary Fascism Liberalism Monarchism Neoliberalism Old Right (United States) Radical centrism Radical right Europe United States Reactionary Right-wing politics Toryism  Conservatism portal  Politics portal v t e During this period, Oakeshott published what became his best known work during his lifetime, the collection entitled Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1962). Some of the polemics against the direction that Britain was taking, in particular the acceptance of socialism, gained Oakeshott a reputation as a conservative seeking to uphold the importance of tradition, and sceptical about rationalism and fixed ideologies. Bernard Crick described him as a "lonely nihilist".[17] Oakeshott's opposition to what he considered utopian political projects is summed by his use of the analogy (possibly borrowed from the Marquess of Halifax, a 17th-century English author whom he admired) of a ship of state that has "neither starting-place nor appointed destination...[and where] the enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel".[18] He was a critic of the Cambridge historian E. H. Carr, historian of Soviet Russia, claiming that Carr had an uncritical attitude to the Bolshevik regime and took some of its propaganda at face value.[19] On Human Conduct and Oakeshott's political theory[edit] In his essay "On Being Conservative" (1956)[20] Oakeshott explained what he regarded as the conservative disposition: "To be conservative ... is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss." Oakeshott's political philosophy, as advanced in On Human Conduct (1975), is free of any form of party politics. The book's first part ("On the Theoretical Understanding of Human Conduct") develops a theory of human action as the exercise of intelligent agency in activities such as wanting and choosing, the second ("On the Civil Condition") discusses the formal conditions of association appropriate to such intelligent agents, described as "civil" or legal association, and the third ("On the Character of a Modern European State") examines how far this understanding of human association has affected politics and political ideas in post-Renaissance European history. Oakeshott suggests that there had been two major modes or understandings of human social organization. In the first, which he calls "enterprise association" (or universitas), the state is understood as imposing some universal purpose (profit, salvation, progress, racial domination) on its subjects. By contrast, "civil association" (or societas) is primarily a legal relationship in which laws impose obligatory conditions of action but do not require choosing one action rather than another. The complex, often technical style of On Human Conduct found few readers, and its initial reception was mostly one of bafflement. Oakeshott, who rarely responded to critics, used an article in the journal Political Theory to reply sardonically to some of the contributions made at a symposium on the book.[21] In his posthumously published The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism Oakeshott describes enterprise associations and civil associations in different terms. An enterprise association is based on a fundamental faith in human ability to ascertain and grasp some universal "good" (leading to the Politics of Faith), and civil association is based on a fundamental scepticism about human ability to either ascertain or achieve this good (leading to the Politics of Scepticism). Oakeshott considers power (especially technological power) as a necessary prerequisite for the Politics of Faith, because it allows people to believe that they can achieve something great and to implement the policies necessary to achieve their goal. The Politics of Scepticism, on the other hand, rests on the idea that government should concern itself with preventing bad things from happening, rather than enabling ambiguously good events. Oakeshott employs the analogy of the adverb to describe the kind of restraint that law involves. Laws prescribe "adverbial conditions": they condition our actions, but they do not determine the substantive ends of our choices. For example, the law against murder is not a law against killing as such, but only a law against killing "murderously". Or, to choose a more trivial example, the law does not dictate that I have a car, but if I do, I must drive it on the same side of the road as everybody else. This contrasts with the rules of enterprise associations, in which the actions required by the government are made compulsory for all. Philosophy of history[edit] In the final work that Oakeshott published in his lifetime, On History (1983), he returned to the idea that history is a distinct mode of experience, but built on the theory of action developed for On Human Conduct. Much of On History had in fact been written at the same time as that book, in the early 1970s. During the mid-1960s Oakeshott declared an admiration for Wilhelm Dilthey, one of the pioneers of hermeneutics. On History can be interpreted as an essentially neo-Kantian enterprise of working out the conditions of the possibility of historical knowledge, work that Dilthey had begun. The first three essays set out the distinction between the present of historical experience and the present of practical experience, as well as the concepts of historical situation, historical event, and what is meant by change in history. On History includes an essay on jurisprudence ("The Rule of Law"). It also includes a retelling of The Tower of Babel in a modern setting[22] in which Oakeshott expresses disdain for human willingness to sacrifice individuality, culture, and quality of life for grand collective projects. He attributes this behaviour to fascination with novelty, persistent dissatisfaction, greed, and lack of self-reflection.[23] Other works[edit] Oakeshott's other works included a reader on The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe consisting of selected texts illustrating the main doctrines of liberalism, national socialism, fascism, communism, and Roman Catholicism (1939). He was editor of an edition of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1946), for which he provided an introduction that has been recognised as a significant contribution to the literature by later scholars such as Quentin Skinner. Several of Oakeshott's essays on Hobbes were collected and published in 1975 as Hobbes on Civil Association. With his Cambridge colleague Guy Griffith Oakeshott wrote A Guide to the Classics, or How to Pick The Derby Winner (1936), a guide to the principles of successful betting on horse-racing. This was his only non-academic work. Oakeshott was the author of well over 150 essays and reviews, most of which have yet to be republished. Just before he died Oakeshott approved two edited collections of his works, The Voice of Liberal Learning (1989), a collection of his essays on education, and a second, revised and expanded edition of Rationalism in Politics (1991). Posthumous collections of his writings include Morality and Politics in Modern Europe (1993), a lecture series he gave at Harvard in 1958; Religion, Politics, and the Moral Life (1993), essays mostly from his early and middle periods; and The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism (1996), a manuscript from the 1950s contemporary with much of the material in Rationalism in Politics but written in a more considered tone. The bulk of his papers are now in the Oakeshott Archive at the London School of Economics. Further volumes of posthumous writings are in preparation, as is a biography, and a series of monographs devoted to his work were published during the first decade of the 21st century. Bibliography[edit] 1933. Experience and Its Modes. Cambridge University Press 1936. A Guide to the Classics, or, How to Pick the Derby. With G.T. 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 F.A. Ogg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1947. A New Guide to the Derby: How to Pick the Winner. With G.T. Griffith. London: Faber and Faber 1955. La Idea de Gobierno en la Europa Moderna. Madrid: Ateneo 1959. The voice of poetry in the conversation of mankind: an essay. Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes 1962. Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays. London: Methuen (Expanded edition – 1991, by Liberty Fund) 1966. Rationalismus in der Politik. (trans. K. Streifthau) Neuwied und Berlin: Luchterhard 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 Posthumous[edit] 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. Zuversicht und Skepsis: Zwei Prinzipien neuzeitlicher Politik. (trans. C. Goldmann). Berlin: Fest 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 Modern European State: Essays and Reviews 1952–88. Thorverton: Imprint Academic 2010. Early Political Writings 1925–30. Thorverton: Imprint Academic References[edit] ^ Michael Oakeshott (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) ^ Mark Garnett (ed.), Conservative Moments: Reading Conservative Texts, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, ch. 9. ^ Fuller, T. (1991) 'The Work of Michael Oakeshott', Political Theory, Vol. 19 No. 3. ^ a b Paul Franco, Leslie Marsh, A Companion to Michael Oakeshott, pp. 16 ^ http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=8042&inst_id=1 ^ Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: How the two lives of Grace Oakeshott defined an era, Jocelyn Robson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, p. xvii ^ Full of Hope and Fear: The Great War Letters of an Oxford Family, ed. Margaret Bonfiglioli and James Munson, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. xxxiii-xxxiv ^ "Chris Huhne: A family affair". BBC News. 16 May 2011. ^ See M. Oakeshott, Review of H. Levy and others, Aspects of Dialectical Materialism, in Cambridge Review, 56 (1934–5), pp. 108–9 ^ Gray, John. "Last of the Idealists". Literary Review. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014. ^ Paul Franco, Leslie Marsh, A Companion to Michael Oakeshott, pp. 31 ^ Paul Franco, Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction, pp. 22 ^ "A Letter from Margaret Thatcher". www.michael-oakeshott-association.org. Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) ^ Oakeshott, Experience and Its Modes, p. 6 ^ Paul Franco, Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction, pp. 45–46 ^ Efraim Podoksik, ‘Ethics and the Conduct of Life in the old Georg Simmel and the young Michael Oakeshott’, Simmel Studies 17(2), 2007, pp. 197–221 ^ Bernard Crick, ‘The World of Michael Oakeshott: Or the Lonely Nihilist’, Encounter, 20 (June 1963), pp. 65–74 ^ Oakeshott, Michael. Rationalism in Politics. London: Methuen, 1962: p. 127; [1] ^ M. Oakeshott, Review of E. H. Carr, The New Society, in Times Literary Supplement (12 October 1951) ^ Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (London: Methuen,1962), pp. 168–96 ^ M. Oakeshott, "On Misunderstanding Human Conduct: A Reply to My Critics," Political Theory, 4 (1976), pp. 353–67. ^ Reprinted as Oakeshott, Michael (1989). "The Tower of Babel". In Clarke, S.G.; Simpson, E. (eds.). Anti-Theory in Ethics and Moral Conservatism. SUNY Series in Ethical Theory. State University of New York Press. p. 185ff. ISBN 978-0-88706-912-3. Retrieved 25 May 2018. ^ Corey, E.C. (2006). Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics. Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy. University of Missouri Press. p. 129-131. ISBN 978-0-8262-6517-3. Further reading[edit] Corey Abel & Timothy Fuller, eds. The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott (Imprint Academic, 2005, ISBN 1-84540-009-7) Corey Abel, ed, The meanings of Michael Oakeshott's Conservatism (Imprint Academic, 2010, ISBN 978-1845402181) Gene Callahan (2012). Oakeshott on Rome and America. Charlottesville, VA: Exeter: Imprint Academic. p. 227. ISBN 978-1845403133. OCLC 800863300. Elizabeth Campbell Corey, Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics (University of Missouri Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0826216403) Paul Franco, Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction (Yale, 2004, ISBN 0-300-10404-9) Paul Franco & Leslie Marsh, eds, A Companion to Michael Oakeshott (Penn State University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0271054070. OCLC 793497138 Robert Grant, Oakeshott (The Claridge Press, 1990). W. H. Greenleaf, Oakeshott's Philosophical Politics (Longmans, 1966). Alexandre Guilherme and W. John Morgan, 'Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990)-dialogue as conversation'. Chapter 8 in Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education: Nine modern European philosophers, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 127-139. ISBN 978-1-138-83149-0. Till Kinzel, Michael Oakeshott. Philosoph der Politik (Perspektiven, 9) (Antaios, 2007, ISBN 978-3935063098) Terry Nardin, The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (Penn State, 2001, ISBN 0-271-02156-X) Efraim Podoksik, In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott (Imprint Academic, 2003, ISBN 0-907845-66-5) Efraim Podoksik, ed, The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott (Cambridge University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0521764674. OCLC 770694299 Andrew Sullivan, Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott (Imprint Academic, 2007) External links[edit] Wikiquote has quotations related to: Michael Oakeshott Michael Oakeshott Association The Michael Oakeshott Bibliography Michael Oakeshott, "Rationalism in Politics". Cambridge Journal, Volume I, 1947 (broken link – go through your State or Provincial library's subscription service) Catalogue of the Oakeshott papers at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics. 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