This volume presents a synoptic history of British Idealism, the philosophical school which dominated British philosophy from the 1860s through to the early years of the following century. Offering detailed examination of the origins, growth, development and decline of this School of thought, providing clear explanation of its characteristic concepts and doctrines, and paying close attention to the published works of its philosophers, the volume restores to its proper place an until now almost wholly forgotten period of our native philosophical history. By covering all major philosophers invol ... More

This volume presents a synoptic history of British Idealism, the philosophical school which dominated British philosophy from the 1860s through to the early years of the following century. Offering detailed examination of the origins, growth, development and decline of this School of thought, providing clear explanation of its characteristic concepts and doctrines, and paying close attention to the published works of its philosophers, the volume restores to its proper place an until now almost wholly forgotten period of our native philosophical history. By covering all major philosophers involved in the movement (not merely the most famous ones like Bradley, Green, McTaggart and Bosanquet but the lesser known figures like the Caird brothers, Henry Jones, A.S. Pringle-Pattison and R.B. Haldane) and by looking at all branches of philosophy (not just the familiar topics of ethics, political thought, and metaphysics but also the less well documented work on logic, religion, aesthetics and the history of philosophy) the book brings out the movement's complex living pattern of unity and difference; something which other more limited accounts have tended to obscure.