The Afterlife of Idealism The Impact of New Idealism on British Hist
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, a
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Admir Skodo
The Afterlife of Idealism
Admir Skodo
The Afterlife of Idealism The Impact of New Idealism on British Historical and Political Thought, 1945-1980
Admir Skodo University of California Berkeley Berkeley, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-29384-4 ISBN 978-3-319-29385-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29385-1
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book is, fittingly, the afterlife of my Ph.D. thesis, defended at the European University Institute in 2011. It stems from my interest in three fields: the theory of history, the practice of history, and the politics of history. I believe that the three are inseparable, and that the more conscious historians are of this inseparability, the more they are willing to tarry with all three, the wider the impact their histories will have in, and outside of, academia. In this book I provide an intellectual history of a prominent group of British postwar historians who traversed all three fields in their thought. Over the years I have had the pleasure and privilege of discussing whole drafts or parts of this book with numerous colleagues, friends, and mentors. My first thank-you goes to Professor Martin van Gelderen, my supervisor at the European University Institute. My external supervisor, Professor Mark Bevir, is another person to whom I owe a great deal. And I am very grateful to Professor Stephen A. Smith, Professor Jan-Werner Müller, and Dr. Timothy Stanton, the examining jury members of my thesis. At various academic or informal occasions, some very recent, I have benefited from the comments of numerous colleagues and scholars, to whom I wish to say thanks: Micha
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