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British idealist engagements with Mazzinianism, 1858 to 1929 (2024)
Journal Article
Tyler, C. (online). British idealist engagements with Mazzinianism, 1858 to 1929. Journal of political ideologies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2024.2369304

This article contributes to the scholarship on Giuseppe Mazzini’s impact on British radicalism, through an analysis of British idealist engagements with his life and writings between 1858 and 1929. Section one introduces the topic. Section two sketch... Read More about British idealist engagements with Mazzinianism, 1858 to 1929.

Edward Caird Miscellenea (2024)
Journal Article
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.

Carlo Rosselli and British Anti-fascist thought (2023)
Book Chapter
Tyler, C. (2023). Carlo Rosselli and British Anti-fascist thought. In P. Chiantera-Stutte, & M. Pagano (Eds.), La Forza Della Liberta: L’Antifascismo dall’Aventino alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale (221-232). Pacini Editore SrI

While many scholars have noted Carlo Rosselli’s intellectual affinity with the British New Liberal Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864-1929), only a small proportion have explored this affinity in any real depth. This chapter takes a previously under-res... Read More about Carlo Rosselli and British Anti-fascist thought.

Bibliography of Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882) (2023)
Data
Tyler, C. (2023). Bibliography of Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882). [Data]

From Acknowledgements:
Reflecting the lively state of interest in T.H. Green and his thought, a great many additions have been made to this edition of the bibliography.

“Sophists in academic dress: Oakeshott’s ‘The study of “politics” in a university’” (2022)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2022). “Sophists in academic dress: Oakeshott’s ‘The study of “politics” in a university’”. Cosmos+Taxis, 10(7-8), 62-71

What sort of activity should Politics academics aim to inculcate in their students? Only truth-seeking, logical thinking, and the ability to scrutinize evidence for themselves? Or also the will and ability to perform supposedly beneficial extra-acade... Read More about “Sophists in academic dress: Oakeshott’s ‘The study of “politics” in a university’”.

Rethinking Constant’s Ancient Liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism (2022)
Journal Article
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.

The UK and Covid-19 (2021)
Book Chapter
Tyler, C. (2021). The UK and Covid-19. In J. N. Pieterse, H. Lim, & H. Khondker (Eds.), Covid-19 and Governance: Crisis Reveals (125-138). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter explores the institutional and ideological tensions that shape the United Kingdom (UK) government’s responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. The discussion is structured as follows. Section one presents the UK government’s response to the pan... Read More about The UK and Covid-19.

‘A State by a Sort of Courtesy’: T.H Green’s theory of the state as a critique of Czarism (2020)
Book Chapter
Tyler, C. (2020). ‘A State by a Sort of Courtesy’: T.H Green’s theory of the state as a critique of Czarism. In G. Rinaldi, & G. Cerretani (Eds.), Etica, Politica, Storia universale. Atti del Congresso Internazionale (Urbino, 24-27 ottobre 2018) (247-282). Aracne editrice

The chapter is structured as follows. Section two briefly sketches Thomas Hill Green’s early attitudes to Russia. Section three analyses Green’s mature conception of “the state” and considers its influence on his mature attitude towards Czarism. Sect... Read More about ‘A State by a Sort of Courtesy’: T.H Green’s theory of the state as a critique of Czarism.

“All history is the history of thought”: competing British idealist historiographies (2020)
Journal Article
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.

The ‘dialectical’ theory of conservatism (2020)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2020). The ‘dialectical’ theory of conservatism. Journal of political ideologies, 25(2), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2020.1750760

Recently, James Alexander has proposed a ‘dialectical definition’ of conservatism which, he believes, goes beyond ‘dispositional’ definitions, such as those proposed by Brennan and Hamlin, and by Martin Beckstein, which are ‘incomplete’.1 Alexander a... Read More about The ‘dialectical’ theory of conservatism.

R. G. Collingwood's overlapping ideas of history (2020)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2021). R. G. Collingwood's overlapping ideas of history. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341437

Does R. G. Collingwood's theory that concepts in philosophy are organized as “scales of forms” apply to his own work on the nature of history? Or is there some inconsistency between Collingwood's work as a philosopher of history and as a theorist of... Read More about R. G. Collingwood's overlapping ideas of history.

Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy (2019)
Journal Article
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.

Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory (2019)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2019). Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory. History of European ideas, 45(7), 1029-1044. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2019.1628582

R. G. Collingwood's New Leviathan (1942) presents an account of two ‘dialectical’ political processes that are ongoing in any body politic. Existing scholarship has already covered the first: a dialectic between a ‘social’ and a ‘non-social’ element,... Read More about Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory.

‘God, man, and nature’: Neo-Aristotelian naturalism in T.H. Green’s faith and philosophy (2019)
Journal Article
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.

The Development of Collingwood’s Metaphilosophical Views (2018)
Book Chapter
Connelly, J. (2018). The Development of Collingwood’s Metaphilosophical Views. In K. Dharamsi, G. D'Oro, & S. Leach (Eds.), Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology (35-75). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02432-1_3

Connelly discusses the development of Collingwood’s conception of philosophical methodology and how his early reflections on the role and character of philosophical analysis gradually gave rise to his mature metaphilosophical views. He shows that con... Read More about The Development of Collingwood’s Metaphilosophical Views.

F.H. Bradley and secular and religious debates in the philosophy of history (2018)
Journal Article
Connelly, J. (2018). F.H. Bradley and secular and religious debates in the philosophy of history. Philosophical Enquiries. Revue des philosophies anglophones, 97-116

This paper considers F. H. Bradley’s The Presuppositions of Critical History as a foundational document in philosophy of history, and its origin in debates in church history triggered by claims that biblical stories should be subject to the constrain... Read More about F.H. Bradley and secular and religious debates in the philosophy of history.

The composition of R. G. Collingwood's The New Leviathan (2018)
Journal Article
Connelly, J., & Johnson, P. (2019). The composition of R. G. Collingwood's The New Leviathan. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27(1), 114-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2018.1494540

Collingwood's The New Leviathan is a difficult text. It comprises philosophy, political theory, political opinion and history in what is sometimes an uneasy amalgam. Despite its being the culmination of thirty years of work in ethics and political th... Read More about The composition of R. G. Collingwood's The New Leviathan.