The unknown Oakeshott

pp. 40-49

in: Robert Grant, The politics of sex and other essays, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

Even before Michael Oakeshott's death in 1990 the Oakeshott industry's output amounted to more than a trickle, and, if these books are anything to go by, we may expect shortly to see a sizeable stream. He himself withheld more than he ever published, and never reprinted many excellent but scattered and otherwise inaccessible pieces. Some of this unknown Oakeshott is now put before us in the first three works listed above. The fourth is largely a collective memorial tribute.