Anglo-American Idealism: Thinkers and Ideas

Description

This volume is devoted to a critical discussion and re-appraisal of the work of Anglo-American Idealists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Idealism was the dominant philosophy in Britain and the entire English-speaking world during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The British Idealists made important contributions to logic, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. Their legacy awaits further exploration and reassessment, and this book is a contribution to this task. The essays in this collection display many aspects of contemporary concern with idealistic philosophy: they range from treatments of logic to consideration of the Absolute, personal idealism, the philosophy of religion, philosophy of art, philosophy of action, and moral and political philosophy. During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the work of the Anglo-American Idealists has once again been widely discussed and re-considered, and new pathways of research and investigation have been opened. Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Introduction • James Connelly and Stamatoula Panagakou The Idealistic Transformation of Logic • James W. Allard Is the Absolute Obsolete? Idealism in Transition in the Philosophy of Leslie Armour • Elizabeth Trott Rethinking the Absolute • Leslie Armour The One, the Many, and the Infinite: Royce’s Quest for a Middle Way • Joseph P. McGinn The Idealism of Young Oakeshott • Efraim Podoksik Idealism and the Pantheistic Revolution: The ‘Big Picture’ and Why it is Needed • Jan Olof Bengtsson The Kingdom of God on Earth: Religion and Ethics in the Philosophy of Bernard Bosanquet • Stamatoula Panagakou The Problem of Evil for Absolute Idealism • T. L. S. Sprigge Mind as Action: Reflections on Collingwood and the Cause–Reason Divide • Karim Dharamsi R. G. Collingwood’s Response to Oxbridge Meta-Ethics: Hierarchical Moral Pluralism • Timothy Lord Taking Individuals Seriously: New Liberalism and Rights • Derrick Darby The Ideal of Charity in the Realist Age • Chris Colgan Collingwood, Hegel and the Owl of Minerva • Gary Browning Absolute Presuppositions and the Limits of Reason: Some Aspects of the Philosophy of Collingwood • Sverre Wide Collingwood, Heidegger and the Art of Being • T. J. Rosser Art, Feeling and Truth: The Central Problem of the Aesthetics of Anglo-Saxon Idealism • Marie-Luise Raters Edward Caird, Northrop Frye and Kant Scholarship • Philip MacEwen Notes on Contributors Index