Michael Oakeshott

Michael Oakeshott
Oakeshott in the 1960s
Born
Michael Joseph Oakeshott

(1901-12-11)11 December 1901
Chelsfield, London, England
Died19 December 1990(1990-12-19) (aged 89)
Acton, England
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
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Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (/ˈkʃɒt/; 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.[3]

  1. ^ Michael Oakeshott (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  2. ^ Mark Garnett (ed.), Conservative Moments: Reading Conservative Texts, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, ch. 9.
  3. ^ Fuller, T. (1991) 'The Work of Michael Oakeshott', Political Theory, Vol. 19 No. 3.