British Idealism: Language, Aesthetics and Emotions

ISBN-13: 9780367584009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

Colin Tyler; James Connelly

Opis

This book brings together leading experts in an exploration of the neglected contributions made to the fields of language, aesthetics and emotions by British idealist philosophers and their interlocutors. This book was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal of the History of Philosophy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction - Language, aesthetics and emotions in the work of the British idealists  2. The general will and the speech community: British Idealism and the foundations of politics  3. Emotion and satisfaction in the philosophy of F.H. Bradley  4. From the bankruptcy of relations to the reality of connections: language and semantics in Bradley and Bosanquet  5. Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry  6. Re-enactment, reconstruction and the freedom of the imagination: Collingwood on history and art  7. Feeling, emotion and imagination: in defence of Collingwood’s expression theory of art  8. Thinking and feeling in actual idealism

O autorze

Colin Tyler and James Connelly are the founding Directors of the Centre for Idealism and the New Liberalism at Hull University, UK. Both have written extensively on the field, covering philosophers from T. H. Green to R. G. Collingwood, and Michael Oakeshott.