Biographical
Encyclopedia of British Idealism
Editor : William Sweet
ISBN : 1843711494 / Year : 2006
This is a unique and significant new
reference work, which reflects the shifting intellectual boundaries of British
Thought between 1860 and 1920. Often regarded as an aberrant phase in the
history of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century philosophy, British
Idealism provoked a wide range of attacks and replies from all the major
figures of the time, such as Sidgwick, Dewey, Broad,
and of course, Russell.
Some of the major figures which were
associated with the movements were Bosanquet, F.H.
Bradley, Edward Caird, Collingwood, T.H. Green, Hobhouse, McTaggart, Muirhead, Ritchie and
In recent years there has been a
considerable amount of renewed interest and many of the ideas of that tradition
are being reintroduced and discussed in philosophy and politics.