Date: 2016
Type: Book
The afterlife of idealism : the impact of new idealism on British historical and political thought, 1945-1980
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
SKODO, Admir, The afterlife of idealism : the impact of new idealism on British historical and political thought, 1945-1980, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/41866
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This book examines the legacy of philosophical idealism in twentieth century British historical and political thought. It demonstrates that the absolute idealism of the nineteenth century was radically transformed by R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott, and Benedetto Croce. These new idealists developed a new philosophy of history with an emphasis on the study of human agency, and historicist humanism. This study unearths the impact of the new idealism on the thought of a group of prominent revisionist historians in the welfare state period, focusing on E.H. Carr, Isaiah Berlin, G.R. Elton, Peter Laslett, and George Kitson Clark. It shows that these historians used the new idealism to restate the nature of history and to revise modern English history against the backdrop of the intellectual, social and political problems of the welfare state period, thus making new idealist revisionism a key tradition in early postwar historiography.
Table of Contents:
-- Introduction /Skodo, Admir
-- Revisionist Potential: Historical Thought from Absolute to New Idealism /Skodo, Admir
-- The Philosophical Moment in Postwar Historiography /Skodo, Admir
-- Revisionist Whiggism: Revisions of the English Past from the Tudors to the Victorians /Skodo, Admir
-- The Political Thought of Revisionism /Skodo, Admir
-- Conclusion /Skodo, Admir
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/41866
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29385-1
ISBN: 9783319293844; 9783319293851
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/19436
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2011
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