Skodo The Afterlife of Idealism

The Impact of New Idealism on British Historical and Political Thought, 1945-1980
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-29385-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 301 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skodo, Admir

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.-Chapter 1. Revisionist Potential: Historical Thought from Absolute to New Idealism.- .Chapter 2. The Philosophical Moment in Postwar Historiography.-Chapter 3. Revisionist Whiggism: Revisions of the English Past from the Tudors to the Victorians.-Chapter 4.The Political Thought of Revisionism.-Conclusion.-Appendix: Short Biographies of Key New Idealists and Early Postwar British Historians.

Über Autor(innen)

Admir Skodo is a researcher at Lund University, Sweden.