02742nam 22005535 450 991025478200332120240507105106.09783319293851331929385010.1007/978-3-319-29385-1(CKB)3860000000009982(EBL)4537033(DE-He213)978-3-319-29385-1(MiAaPQ)EBC4537033(Perlego)3492247(EXLCZ)99386000000000998220160527d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Afterlife of Idealism The Impact of New Idealism on British Historical and Political Thought, 1945-1980 /by Admir Skodo1st ed. 2016.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9783319293844 3319293842 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.HistoryPhilosophyGreat BritainHistoryHistory, ModernPhilosophy of HistoryHistory of Britain and IrelandModern HistoryHistoryPhilosophy.Great BritainHistory.History, Modern.Philosophy of History.History of Britain and Ireland.Modern History.900Skodo Admirauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut903262BOOK9910254782003321The Afterlife of Idealism2019253UNINA