Anglo-American Idealism

James Connelly is Professor of Politics at the University of Hull. He is the author of Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood (2003) and various articles on the idealists. He is co-author of Politics and the Environment (2003) and is currently writing Sustainability and the Virtues of Environmental Citizenship. Stamatoula Panagakou is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Cyprus. She has taught at the Universities of York, Durham, Newcastle and Manchester. She has been awarded fellowships from the NATO Science Fellowships Programme, the Lilian Voudouri Foundation and the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. She specialises in political philosophy and the history of political thought and is a founding member of the PSA British Idealism Specialist Group.

Contents: James Connelly/Stamatoula Panagakou: Introduction - James W. Allard: The Idealistic Transformation of Logic - Elizabeth Trott: Is the Absolute Obsolete? Idealism in Transition in the Philosophy of Leslie Armour - Leslie Armour: Rethinking the Absolute - Joseph P. McGinn: The One, the Many, and the Infinite: Royce's Quest for a Middle Way - Efraim Podoksik: The Idealism of Young Oakeshott - Jan Olof Bengtsson: Idealism and the Pantheistic Revolution: The 'Big Picture' and Why it is Needed - Stamatoula Panagakou: The Kingdom of God on Earth: Religion and Ethics in the Philosophy of Bernard Bosanquet - T. L. S. Sprigge: The Problem of Evil for Absolute Idealism - Karim Dharamsi: Mind as Action: Reflections on Collingwood and the Cause-Reason Divide - Timothy Lord: R. G. Collingwood's Response to Oxbridge Meta-Ethics: Hierarchical Moral Pluralism - Derrick Darby: Taking Individuals Seriously: New Liberalism and Rights - Chris Colgan: The Ideal of Charity in the Realist Age - Gary Browning: Collingwood, Hegel and the Owl of Minerva - Sverre Wide: Absolute Presuppositions and the Limits of Reason: Some Aspects of the Philosophy of Collingwood - T J. Rosser: Collingwood, Heidegger and the Art of Being - Marie-Luise Raters: Art, Feeling and Truth: The Central Problem of the Aesthetics of Anglo-Saxon Idealism - Philip MacEwen: Edward Caird, Northrop Frye and Kant Scholarship.

«The publication of 'Anglo-American Idealism; Thinkers and Ideas' is timely. Considering the increasing time allocated to the philosophy and history of British Idealism in university curricula (...), the volume will interest both advanced undergraduates and graduates. An interested reader will doubtless find more than a single chapter instructive. Not only will students of Anglo-American Idealism find the volume essential reading, but also political theorists and intellectual historians will be able to consult (...) the engaging discussions of the volume.» (Antis Loizides, Political Studies Review)
«This edited volume provides an insightful and informative perspective on all aspects of contemporary concern with idealist philosophy. [...] The volume is a welcome addition to the expanding literature on idealism and is particularly helpful in displaying its variety and inter-connectedness, along with its impact and relevance to today.» (Richard Murphy, Philosophy in Review XXXII, 04/2012)
«'Anglo-American Idealism - Thinkers and Ideas' is an excellent introduction to contemporary idealism, and has an ample scope for exegesis in the classroom. The kind of careful work exhibited here will open up latent currents of thought and develop intuition at the historical as well as the personal level, not only for students of idealism but also for those (...) interested in the fullest extensions of the Platonic paradigm.» (Alastair Beattie, Interchange 04/2014)