Abstract
Most of the official obituaries which followed the death of Michael Oakeshott were so inadequate, paid so little attention to what really mattered to him, that one can only hope that something better can be achieved.1 If one believed the New York Times (20 December 1990) he was a “right-wing guru,” a high-Tory oracle centrally concerned with interpreting (and usually decrying) current political events; if one did fractionally better and gave credence to the London Times he was, though a philosopher who “stood fastidiously aside” from politics, nonetheless the “articulator” of “the real philosophical foundations of Mrs. Thatcher's policies” (22 December 1991).
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