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Admir Skodo

The Afterlife of Idealism

The Impact of New Idealism on British Historical and Political Thought, 1945-1980

Admir Skodo

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English

Springer Publishing Co
28 May 2016

History; Historiography; British & Irish history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000

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.

By: Admir Skodo
Imprint: Springer Publishing Co
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 5.056kg
ISBN: 9783319293844
ISBN 10: 3319293842
Pages: 301
Publication Date: 28 May 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Admir Skodo is a researcher at Lund University, Sweden.

Reviews for The Afterlife of Idealism: The Impact of New Idealism on British Historical and Political Thought, 1945-1980

“The Afterlife of Idealism is a rich history that covers a complex landscape of political theory, historical writing, and social criticism from early post-war Britain. … the book is for a wide range of readers, from intellectual historians to those interested in the history of philosophy and historiography.” (Julia Moses, European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 26, 2018) “The Afterlife of Idealism offers another perspective on British historiography in one of its most fecund phases. In Skodo’s book Carr’s What is History? is not the starting point of post-war historical reflection; post-war historians were already caught up in historical philosophising and philosophical history. After The Afterlife of Idealism, Elton, Clark, Laslett, et al. are far harder to pigeon hole, far more plural in their predilections than may be popularly imagined.” (Jamie Melrose, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, October, 2017)