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Rethinking Constant’s Ancient Liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism (2022)
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Tyler, C. (2022). Rethinking Constant’s Ancient Liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism. History of European ideas, 48(3), 280-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2022.2056333

Benjamin Constant was a vociferous critic of the political Rousseauianism that he saw underpinning French politics in the early nineteenth-century. Yet, his hostile reaction at the political level co-existed with a far more sympathetic attitude towar... Read More about Rethinking Constant’s Ancient Liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism.

“All history is the history of thought”: competing British idealist historiographies (2020)
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Tyler, C. (2020). “All history is the history of thought”: competing British idealist historiographies. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 28(3), 573-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2019.1684239

Along with utilitarianism, British idealism was the most important philosophical and practical movement in Britain and its Empire during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Even though the British idealists have regained some of their... Read More about “All history is the history of thought”: competing British idealist historiographies.

Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy (2019)
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Tyler, C. (2019). Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy. Dialogi Polityczne = Political Dialogues, 27(27), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.12775/dp.2019.011

The article analyses the progress of the Brexit debate in the UK from the time that David Cameron announced in 2013 his intention to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the UK up until the calling of the 2019 UK General Election. It considers... Read More about Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy.

‘God, man, and nature’: Neo-Aristotelian naturalism in T.H. Green’s faith and philosophy (2019)
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Tyler, C. (2019). ‘God, man, and nature’: Neo-Aristotelian naturalism in T.H. Green’s faith and philosophy. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 25(1), 45-73

Establishing Thomas Hill Green’s naturalism and the philosophical redundancy of his religious beliefs is profoundly important when understanding his philosophy and, by extension, when understanding British idealism as a philosophical movement. This a... Read More about ‘God, man, and nature’: Neo-Aristotelian naturalism in T.H. Green’s faith and philosophy.

Individuality, freedom and socialism: the British idealists' critiques of the Fichtean state (2014)
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Tyler, C. (2015). Individuality, freedom and socialism: the British idealists' critiques of the Fichtean state. Political studies, 63(2), 319-335. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12108

Together with utilitarianism, British idealism dominated Anglo-American philosophy from the 1870s until the end of the First World War. This article counters a persisting criticism of the British idealists: that they endorsed the allegedly oppressive... Read More about Individuality, freedom and socialism: the British idealists' critiques of the Fichtean state.

D. G. Ritchie on socialism, history and Locke (2012)
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Tyler, C. (2012). D. G. Ritchie on socialism, history and Locke. Journal of political ideologies, 17(3), 259-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2012.716615

The history of late-19th-century socialism tends to focus on the rise of more extreme forms, especially Marxism. This approach marginalizes the more moderate and yet no less powerful and influential forms of socialism, particularly those developed by... Read More about D. G. Ritchie on socialism, history and Locke.

Power, alienation and performativity in capitalist societies (2011)
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Tyler, C. (2011). Power, alienation and performativity in capitalist societies. European Journal of Social Theory, 14(2), 161-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431011403460

The article presents a model of performative agency in capitalist societies. The first section reconsiders the problem of third-dimensional power as developed by Steven Lukes, focusing on the relationships between universal human needs and social for... Read More about Power, alienation and performativity in capitalist societies.

The liberal Hegelianism of Edward Caird: or, how to transcend the social economics of Kant and the romantics (2010)
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Tyler, C. (2010). The liberal Hegelianism of Edward Caird: or, how to transcend the social economics of Kant and the romantics. International Journal of Social Economics, 37(11), 852-866. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068291011082829

Purpose: The paper establishes that Edward Caird developed a distinctive form of liberal Hegelianism out of his critical responses to Kant, the romantic tradition of Rousseau, Goethe and Wordsworth and indeed Hegel himself. Design/methodology/approac... Read More about The liberal Hegelianism of Edward Caird: or, how to transcend the social economics of Kant and the romantics.

Performativity and the intellectual historian's re-enactment of written works. (2009)
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Tyler, C. (2009). Performativity and the intellectual historian's re-enactment of written works. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 3(2), 167-186. https://doi.org/10.1163/187226309x434858

This article develops and defends a performative conception of historical re-enactment as a fruitful method by which intellectual historians can interpret texts. Specifically, it argues that, in order to understand properly any given text, the intell... Read More about Performativity and the intellectual historian's re-enactment of written works..

Hegel, war and the tragedy of imperialism (2004)
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Tyler, C. (2004). Hegel, war and the tragedy of imperialism. History of European ideas, 30(4), 403-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2003.11.017

This article contextualises Hegel's writings on international order, especially those concerning war and imperialism. The recurring theme is the tragic nature of the struggles for recognition which are instantiated by these phenomena. Section one exa... Read More about Hegel, war and the tragedy of imperialism.

T.H. Green, Advanced Liberalism and the Reform Question, 1865-1876 (2003)
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Tyler, C. (2003). T.H. Green, Advanced Liberalism and the Reform Question, 1865-1876. History of European ideas, 29(4), 437-458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2003.08.001

This paper examines Thomas Hill Green's changing attitude to the Reform Question between 1865 and 1876. Section 1 sketches the Radical landscape against which Green advocated reform between 1866 and 1867, paying particular attention to the respective... Read More about T.H. Green, Advanced Liberalism and the Reform Question, 1865-1876.

The much-maligned and misunderstood eternal consciousness (2003)
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Tyler, C. (2003). The much-maligned and misunderstood eternal consciousness. Bradley Studies, 9(2), 126 - 138. https://doi.org/10.5840/bradley2003926

The primary purpose of this paper is to defend three controversial claims that arise out of T.H. Green’s arguments in the first two books of the Prolegomena to Ethics. The first claim—which I defend in §1—is that one should not try to separate the as... Read More about The much-maligned and misunderstood eternal consciousness.

'Negotiating the 'Modern Wilderness of Interests': Bernard Bosanquet on cultural diversity (2002)
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Tyler, C. (2002). 'Negotiating the 'Modern Wilderness of Interests': Bernard Bosanquet on cultural diversity. Contemporary Political Theory, 1(2), 157 - 180. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300027

This article argues that, despite its reputation as a homogenising and authoritarian system, the political thought of Bernard Bosanquet contains resources with which to develop a robust and culturally sensitive model of liberal multiculturalism. Thro... Read More about 'Negotiating the 'Modern Wilderness of Interests': Bernard Bosanquet on cultural diversity.

The value of persons (2002)
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Tyler, C. (2002). The value of persons. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 9, 130 - 138

The Evolution of the Epistemic Self:  a critique of the evolutionary epistemology of Thomas Hill Green and his followers (1998)
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Tyler, C. (1998). The Evolution of the Epistemic Self:  a critique of the evolutionary epistemology of Thomas Hill Green and his followers. Bradley Studies, 4(2), 175 - 194

British Idealists sought to come to terms with, amongst many other things, the existence of knowledge and the development of the evolutionary and geological sciences such as they were expressed in the writings of the likes of Herbert Spencer, George... Read More about The Evolution of the Epistemic Self:  a critique of the evolutionary epistemology of Thomas Hill Green and his followers.