Foi professor de Ciência Política na London School of Economics and Political Science de 1951 a 1968. Um dos mais importantes teóricos ingleses do conservadorismo, pela defesa da autonomia da sociedade civil.
Experience and Its Modes, Cambridge University Press, 1933
The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe, Cambridge University Press, 1939
Rationalism in Politics, Londres, 1962
Ver a reed. Rationalism in Politics and other
Essays, Londres, Methuen, 1981
On Human Conduct, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975
Hobbes on Civil Association,University of California Press, 1975
PAUL FRANCO, The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1990
W. H. GREENLAF, Oakeshott's Philosophical Politics, Londres, Longmans Green, 1966
ROBERT GRANT, Oakeshott, Londres, Claridge Press, 1990
KENNETH R. MINOGUE, O Oceano Ilimitado da Política, in ANTHONY DE CRESPIGNY e KENNETH R. MINOGUE, Filosofia Política Contemporânea, trad. port., Brasília, EUB, 1982, pp. 123 ss.
