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Sources of Contemporary Conservatism

history of political thought which were justly celebrated in the school. Instead of repeating the same material at Harvard, he developed new themes. Eventually, these emerged some 17 years later in his most profound and complex book On Human Conduct. There is less excitement in Morality and Politics in Modern Europe for those who are familiar with the later book. However, it is still an important document for two reasons. Those interested in the development of Oakeshott's thought will compare the two expositions. It is even more valuable for those who are not specialists. On Human Conduct is not an easy book to read or understand. The Harvard lectures are a valuable propaedeutic. There the lineament of the thoughts, which On Human Conduct refines with great art and subtle argument, are clearly in view. The Harvard lectures could usefully serve as a text in undergraduate courses on the history of political thought or as an accessible work in courses in which Oakeshott's thought is explicitly studied in his capacity as one of the truly great political thinkers of the twentieth century. —William Christian