Bernard Bosanquet

July 14, 1848 - February 8, 1923

This page is under constant construction

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Research materials and essays

• British Idealism Research Page (with links to web pages on a number of philosophers influenced by British idealism, information on conferences, bibliographies, etc.)
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Bosanquet
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on F.H. Bradley
• Introduction to The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet
• Obituary (Times) February 10, 1923
  
• Papers on Bosanquet available (some on-line)
• Short biographical sketch
• Paper 1 - "L'individu et les droits de la personne selon Maritain et Bosanquet," originally published in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. VI (1990): 141-166.
• Paper 2 - "Bernard Bosanquet and the Development of Rousseau's Idea of the General Will," originally published in Man and Nature / L'homme et la nature, Vol. X (1991): 179-197.
• Paper 3 - "Was Bosanquet a Hegelian?," originally published in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, No. 31 (1995): 39-60.
• Paper 4 - "Individual Rights, Communitarianism, and British Idealism," originally published in The Bill of Rights: Bicentennial Reflections, (ed. Yeager Hudson and Creighton Peden), Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993, pp. 261-277.
  
• Paper 5 - "F.H. Bradley and Bernard Bosanquet," originally published in Philosophy after F.H. Bradley, (ed. James Bradley), Bristol, U.K.: Thoemmes Press, 1996, pp. 31-56.
• Paper 6 - "Law and Liberty in J.S. Mill and Bernard Bosanquet," originally published in The Social Power of Ideas, (ed. Yeager Hudson and W. Creighton Peden), Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, pp. 361-385. 
• Paper 7 - "Liberalism, Bosanquet and the Theory of the State," originally published in Liberalism, Oppression, and Empowerment, (ed. Creighton Peden and Yeager Hudson), Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, pp. 3-34. 
• Paper 8 -  "Is Later British Idealist Political Theory Fundamentally Conservative?," originally published in The European Legacy, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996): 403-408. [to come]
• Paper 9 -  "Bosanquet and British Political Thought," originally published in Laval théologique et philosophique, Vol. 55 (1999): 99-114. [to come]
• Paper 10 - "'Absolute Idealism' and Finite Individuality," originally published in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXIV, No. 4  (1997): 431-462.
• Paper 11 - "Bernard Bosanquet and the Nature of Religious Belief," originally published in Anglo-American Idealism: 1865-1927, (ed. W.J. Mander), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000: 123-139.
• Paper 12 - (On logic and culture [from the XXth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston 1998])
• Paper 13 - "Social Policy and Bosanquet's Moral Philosophy," originally published in Collingwood Studies, VI (1999): 127-146. [to come]
• Paper 14 - "Bosanquet and Bradley: some recent discussions," originally published in Bradley Studies (2000).
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• Select Bibliography
• Bernard Bosanquet: An Introduction to his Life and Work (selections), by William Sweet [to come]
• ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA entry

Texts

• The Philosophical Theory of the State (second edition, 1910)
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New Editions of Bosanquet's Work

• Bernard Bosanquet: Essays in Philosophy and Social Policy - 1883-1922
• The Philosophical Theory of the State (edited by Gerald F. Gaus and William Sweet)
• Amazon.com
• The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet
• "Reviews and Responses"

Recent books on or about Bosanquet

•  British Idealism and Political Theory (Andrew Vincent and David Boucher)
•  Idealism and Rights (William Sweet)
•  The British Idealists (ed. D. Boucher)
•  The Problem of Political Obligation (Noel O'Sullivan)
•  Conceptualizing the State (James Meadowcroft)
•  British Idealism and Social Explanation : A Study in Late Victorian Thought (Sandra M. Den Otter)
•  The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists (by Peter Nicholson)
•  Bibliography for British Idealism in India and South Africa

"Reviews and responses"

An experiment in on-line scholarship

• Text 1: Period book reviews of Bosanquet's Work
• Text 2: 'Exchanges': Contemporary Criticism and Bosanquet's Response
• Text 3: additional material

Research on Bosanquet and British Idealism today

• The Collingwood and British Idealism Centre
• PSA British Idealism Specialist Group
• The Bradley Society with numerous links
• Michael Oakeshott Association (michael-oakeshott-association@cwcom.net); Home page of the Association
• Idealistic Studies
• Committee on the Study of British Idealism

Conferences and symposia

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• International Conference on Anglo-American Idealism  - At the Olympic Centre for Philosophy and Culture and the Municipality of Pyrgos of Elia, Greece, 20-25 August, 2003.
• Conference on 'T H Green and Contemporary Philosophy,' 2-4 September, 2002, Contact Colin Tyler or Maria Dimova-Cookson
• 'Michael Oakeshott Association,' London School of Economics, early September 2001
• R.G. Collingwood Society, New Millennium Conference, St Catharine's College, Oxford, 4-6 July 2001
• ‘The Philosophy of British Idealists,’ 3d Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London, 6-8 September 2000.
• British Idealism and European Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway, 14-18 August 2000
• Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism, Oxford, 1-2 September 1999
• ‘The Philosophy of British Idealists,’ 2^nd Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, 8-10 September 1999.
• The Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy of British Idealists (two panels) PSA of UK, University of Nottingham, March 1999.

Bosanquet and the Arts

• Three Lectures on Aesthetics Delivered at University College, London, 1914
• A History of Aesthetic, London, 1892.

Zoar - A Book of Verse by Helen and Bernard Bosanquet. Oxford: Blackwell, 1919, 59 pp. Translations by Bernard Bosanquet, original verses by Helen Bosanquet.