The afterlife of idealism : the impact of new idealism on British historical and political thought, 1945-1980 /: the impact of new idealism on British historical and political thought, 1945-1980. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Admir Skodo.
• Authors: Skodo, Admir
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; New Idealism and British Intellectual Life; Philosophy of History, Revising the English Past, and Welfare State Humanism: Themes in Postwar Revisionism; Notes; Chapter 2: Revisionist Potential: Historical Thought from Absolute to New Idealism; Metaphysical History: The Historical Thought of the British Absolute Idealists; The Varieties of Italian New Idealism; Croce's Philosophy of History; Croce's New Humanism; Nuova Rivista Storica: Croce and Professional Italian Historiography. Professionalization, Technocracy, and Whiggism: The First Uses of Italian New Idealism in British HistoriographyBritish New Idealism, Socio-political Pluralism, and Professional Historiography; Oakeshott's Philosophy of History; Collingwood's Philosophy of History; Notes; Chapter 3: The Philosophical Moment in Postwar Historiography; The Salience of the Philosophy of History in Early Postwar Anglo-American Historiography; University Expansion, the Growth of the Social Sciences, and the Persistence of Teleological Philosophies of History; The Need for a New Philosophy of History. The Autonomy of HistoryMethodological Pluralism and Perspectivism; The Trinity of Historical Interpretation: Sympathy, Imagination, Revision; Notes; Chapter 4: Revisionist Whiggism: Revisions of the English Past from the Tudors to the Victorians; Revisionist Whiggism: Pluralist, Redeeming, and Defeatist; Prewar and Postwar Revisionism; Postwar Revisionism: Anti-socialist and Irrationalist Toryism?; The Sixteenth Century: G.R. Elton's Tudor Revolution and the Conservative Origins of Welfare State Administration. The Seventeenth Century I: J.H. Plumb and the Violent Origins of Political StabilityThe Seventeenth Century II: Peter Laslett, the Demythologizing of John Locke, and the Reviving of Sir Robert Filmer; The Nineteenth Century: The Irony of the Victorian Origins of the Welfare State; Notes; Chapter 5: The Political Thought of Revisionism; New Idealism and Postwar Political Thought; Revisionist Historians and Government Policy-Making; The Origins of Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism; Historicizing Human Rights; The Death of Political Philosophy or Political Philosophy in a Historical Key? Welfare State HumanismNotes; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Appendix: Short Biographies of Key New Idealists and Early Postwar British Historians; Bibliography; Papers of Robin George Collingwood, Bodleian library, Oxford; Papers of Peter Laslett, St John's college's Archives, Cambridge; Unpublished works of J.W. Burrow; Journals and Magazines; Primary Published Sources; Secondary literature; Unpublished Ph. D. Theses; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 141; Idealism, English -- History; PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Idealism; Idealism, English; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319293851; 3319293850
• Related ISBNs: 9783319293844
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 1, 2016).
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