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Edward Caird Miscellenea (2024)
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Tyler, C. (2024). Edward Caird Miscellenea. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 29(1), 117-145

Critical edition: Collated, transcribed and introduced by Colin Tyler Contents 1. Edward Caird, Review of Dr. Zeller, History of German Philosophy; The Academy (15 May 1873) 2. Edward Caird: Lecture on “The Relation of Culture to Knowledge” (4... Read More about Edward Caird Miscellenea.

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.

Language, aesthetics and emotions in the work of the British idealists (2018)
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Tyler, C., & Connelly, J. (2018). Language, aesthetics and emotions in the work of the British idealists. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26(4), 643-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2018.1475344

This article surveys and contextualizes the British idealists' philosophical writings on language, aesthetics and emotions, starting with T.H. Green and concluding with Michael Oakeshott. It highlights ways in which their philosophical insights have... Read More about Language, aesthetics and emotions in the work of the British idealists.

Forms, dialectics and the healthy community: the British idealists' receptions of Plato (2018)
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Tyler, C. (2018). Forms, dialectics and the healthy community: the British idealists' receptions of Plato. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 100(1), 76-105. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2018-0004

© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH. All rights reserved. This article counters the dominant misinterpretations of the British idealists' readings of Plato, thereby fundamentally undermining the current historiography of Plato's modern reception in the Eng... Read More about Forms, dialectics and the healthy community: the British idealists' receptions of Plato.

J. A. Symonds, socialism and the crisis of sexuality in fin-de-siècle Britain (2017)
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Tyler, C. (2017). J. A. Symonds, socialism and the crisis of sexuality in fin-de-siècle Britain. History of European ideas, 43(8), 1002-1015. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2017.1284141

This article analyses the theory of sexuality, personality and politics developed by the literary critic John Addington Symonds (1840-93). Sections one and two introduce Symonds’ changing reputation as a modernist theorist of ‘sexual inversion’ (homo... Read More about J. A. Symonds, socialism and the crisis of sexuality in fin-de-siècle Britain.

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.

Drafting the Nineteen Propositions, January to July 1642 (2012)
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Tyler, C. (2012). Drafting the Nineteen Propositions, January to July 1642. Parliamentary History, 31(3), 263-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-0206.2012.00345.x

This article analyses the drafting of the document eventually printed as the Nineteen Propositions. Section two addresses certain issues regarding the methods and concepts employed in the subsequent analysis, focusing on consensus-building, constitut... Read More about Drafting the Nineteen Propositions, January to July 1642.

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..