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Admir Skodo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Afterlife of Idealism - The Afterlife of Idealism : The Impact of New Idealism on British Historical and Political Thought, 1945-1980
2016Co-Authors: Admir SkodoAbstract:This book examines the legacy of Philosophical Idealism in twentieth century British historical and political thought. It demonstrates that the absolute Idealism of the nineteenth century was radically transformed by R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott, and Benedetto Croce. These new idealists developed a new philosophy of history with an emphasis on the study of human agency, and historicist humanism. This study unearths the impact of the new Idealism on the thought of a group of prominent revisionist historians in the welfare state period, focusing on E.H. Carr, Isaiah Berlin, G.R. Elton, Peter Laslett, and George Kitson Clark. It shows that these historians used the new Idealism to restate the nature of history and to revise modern English history against the backdrop of the intellectual, social and political problems of the welfare state period, thus making new idealist revisionism a key tradition in early postwar historiography.-- Introduction /Skodo, Admir -- Revisionist Potential: Historical Thought from Absolute to New Idealism /Skodo, Admir -- The Philosophical Moment in Postwar Historiography /Skodo, Admir -- Revisionist Whiggism: Revisions of the English Past from the Tudors to the Victorians /Skodo, Admir -- The Political Thought of Revisionism /Skodo, Admir -- Conclusion /Skodo, Admi
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The Afterlife of Idealism - The Afterlife of Idealism : The Impact of New Idealism on British Historical and Political Thought, 1945-1980
2016Co-Authors: Admir SkodoAbstract:This book examines the legacy of Philosophical Idealism in twentieth century British historical and political thought. It demonstrates that the absolute Idealism of the nineteenth century was radically transformed by R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott, and Benedetto Croce. These new idealists developed a new philosophy of history with an emphasis on the study of human agency, and historicist humanism. This study unearths the impact of the new Idealism on the thought of a group of prominent revisionist historians in the welfare state period, focusing on E.H. Carr, Isaiah Berlin, G.R. Elton, Peter Laslett, and George Kitson Clark. It shows that these historians used the new Idealism to restate the nature of history and to revise modern English history against the backdrop of the intellectual, social and political problems of the welfare state period, thus making new idealist revisionism a key tradition in early postwar historiography.-- Introduction /Skodo, Admir -- Revisionist Potential: Historical Thought from Absolute to New Idealism /Skodo, Admir -- The Philosophical Moment in Postwar Historiography /Skodo, Admir -- Revisionist Whiggism: Revisions of the English Past from the Tudors to the Victorians /Skodo, Admir -- The Political Thought of Revisionism /Skodo, Admir -- Conclusion /Skodo, AdmirPublished version of EUI PhD thesis, 201
Allen J. Scott - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a perspective of economic geography
Journal of Economic Geography, 2004Co-Authors: Allen J. ScottAbstract:The paper opens with a statement on the social embeddedness of knowledge. The disciplinary situation and practices of economic geographers are reviewed in the light of this statement. The rise of a new geographical economics is noted, and its main thrust is summarized in terms of a description of the core model as formulated by Krugman. The geographers' reception of the new geographical economics is described, and some key aspects of this reception are assessed. I then subject the core model itself to critical evaluation. Its claims about pecuniary externalities in the context of Chamberlinian competition provide a number of useful insights. However, I argue that the model is deficient overall in the manner in which it tackles the central problem of agglomeration. The discussion then moves on to consideration of the recent interest shown by many economic geographers in issues of culture. After a brief exposition of what this means for economic geography, I offer the verdict that this shift of emphasis has much to recommend it, but that in some of its more extreme versions it is strongly susceptible to the temptations of Philosophical Idealism and political voluntarism. In the final part of the paper, I attempt to pinpoint some of the major tasks ahead for economic geography in the phase of post-'late capitalism'. I suggest, in particular, that a new cognitive map of capitalist society as a whole is urgently needed, and I offer some brief remarks about how its basic specifications might be identified. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.
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A perspective of economic geography
Journal of Economic Geography, 2004Co-Authors: Allen J. ScottAbstract:The paper opens with a statement on the social embeddedness of knowledge. The disciplinary situation and practices of economic geographers are reviewed in the light of this statement. The rise of a new geographical economics is noted, and its main thrust is summarized in terms of a description of the core model as formulated by Krugman. The geographers' reception of the new geographical economics is described, and some key aspects of this reception are assessed. I then subject the core model itself to critical evaluation. Its claims about pecuniary exter-nalities in the context of Chamberlinian competition provide a number of useful insights. However, I argue that the model is deficient overall in the manner in which it tackles the central problem of agglomeration. The discussion then moves on to consideration of the recent interest shown by many economic geographers in issues of culture. After a brief exposition of what this means for economic geography, I offer the verdict that this shift of emphasis has much to recommend it, but that in some of its more extreme versions it is strongly susceptible to the temptations of Philosophical Idealism and political voluntarism. In the final part of the paper, I attempt to pinpoint some of the major tasks ahead for economic geography in the phase of post-'late capitalism'. I suggest, in particular, that a new cognitive map of capitalist society as a whole is urgently needed, and I offer some brief remarks about how its basic specifications might be identified.
Jokūbas Minkevičius - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Religion and Philosophy
Problemos, 2014Co-Authors: Jokūbas MinkevičiusAbstract:While discussing the complicated and contradictory relationship between religion and philosophy, the author criticizes the widespread simplified interpretation of this relation. Bearing in mind the theoretical and social equivocality both of materialism and Idealism in their historical development, the paper shows the confrontation of religion not only with the Philosophical materialism, but mainly with the Philosophical Idealism. The historical and logical aspects of the analysis reveal the epistemological essence of Philosophical Idealism, its advantage over religion. Religion and theology are opposed not only to science but to philosophy too, which shows the incompatibility of creative Philosophical thought with religious belief.
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Religija ir filosofija
Problemos, 2014Co-Authors: Jokūbas MinkevičiusAbstract:While discussing the complicated and contradictory relationship between religion and philosophy, the author criticizes the widespread simplified interpretation of this relation. Bearing in mind the theoretical and social equivocality both of materialism and Idealism in their historical development, the paper shows the confrontation of religion not only with the Philosophical materialism, but mainly with the Philosophical Idealism. The historical and logical aspects of the analysis reveal the epistemological essence of Philosophical Idealism, its advantage over religion. Religion and theology are opposed not only to science but to philosophy too, which shows the incompatibility of creative Philosophical thought with religious belief.
Frances Nethercott - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The concept of Lichnost’ in criminal law theory, 1860s–1900s
Studies in East European Thought, 2009Co-Authors: Frances NethercottAbstract:This essay discusses criminal law theories in late Imperial Russia. It argues that, although the political climate of Reform and Counter Reform effectively undermined attempts to implement new legislation premised on the idea of the ‘rights-enabled person’ ( pravovaya lichnost ’), paradoxically, it fostered the growth of juridical scholarship. Russian criminal law theorists engaged critically with Western juridical science, which, beginning in the 1870s, witnessed a shift away from absolutist theories inspired by the classics of Philosophical Idealism towards various strains of positivism arguing for the restoration of the person as a concrete, physiological being. However, while Russian scholars were drawn to these new trends of criminal anthropology and the sociology of crime, they were also obliged to take stock of an indigenous legal culture that scarcely differentiated between pravo and zakon , together with a long tradition of customary practices that equated crime and punishment with sin and redemption.
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The concept of Lichnost’ in criminal law theory, 1860s-1900s
Studies in East European Thought, 2009Co-Authors: Frances NethercottAbstract:This essay discusses criminal law theories in late Imperial Russia. It argues that, although the political climate of Reform and Counter Reform effectively undermined attempts to implement new legislation premised on the idea of the ‘rights-enabled person’ (pravovaya lichnost’), paradoxically, it fostered the growth of juridical scholarship. Russian criminal law theorists engaged critically with Western juridical science, which, beginning in the 1870s, witnessed a shift away from absolutist theories inspired by the classics of Philosophical Idealism towards various strains of positivism arguing for the restoration of the person as a concrete, physiological being. However, while Russian scholars were drawn to these new trends of criminal anthropology and the sociology of crime, they were also obliged to take stock of an indigenous legal culture that scarcely differentiated between pravo and zakon, together with a long tradition of customary practices that equated crime and punishment with sin and redemption.
Victoria Coulson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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'Stealing Silk is my Delight': Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault and the Sexual Politics of Poststructuralist Feminism
New Formations, 2013Co-Authors: Victoria CoulsonAbstract:This essay contends that contemporary practices of literary criticism unreflectively reiterate distinctive propositions about subjectivity that derive from a long tradition of idealist philosophy. It is a tradition of thinking predicated on a splitting of the mind from the body to enable the Philosophical subject to transcend death by disavowing the material object world. To explore this claim, the essay examines the reception by late twentieth- and early twenty-first century Anglophone scholarship of Gaetan Gatian de Clerambault’s work on shoplifting in fin-de-siecle Parisian department stores. The essay demonstrates that recent scholarship on de Clerambault reproduces the idealist assumptions that informed critical accounts of his work in the early 1990s, and locates these Philosophical postulates within two interrelated modes of poststructuralist scholarship that enjoyed significant intellectual prestige in the 1980s and 1990s: the critique of the ‘culture of consumption,’ and the feminist deployment of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. The essay proposes that a new interpretation of de Clerambault’s work may challenge the sexual politics of the Philosophical Idealism that structured some of the most influential feminist scholarship of the poststructuralist era, and that continues to shape critical thinking today.
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'Stealing Silk iS My Delight': gaëtan gatian De CléraMbault anD the Sexual
2013Co-Authors: Victoria CoulsonAbstract:This essay contends that contemporary practices of literary criticism unreflectively reiterate distinctive propositions about subjectivity that derive from a long tradition of idealist philosophy. It is a tradition of thinking predicated on a splitting of the mind from the body to enable the Philosophical subject to transcend death by disavowing the material object world. To explore this claim, the essay examines the reception by late twentieth- and early twenty-first century Anglophone scholarship of Gaetan Gatian de Clerambault's work on shoplifting in fin-de-siecle Parisian department stores. The essay demonstrates that recent scholarship on de Clerambault reproduces the idealist assumptions that informed critical accounts of his work in the early 1990s, and locates these Philosophical postulates within two interrelated modes of poststructuralist scholarship that enjoyed significant intellectual prestige in the 1980s and 1990s: the critique of the 'culture of consumption,' and the feminist deployment of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. The essay proposes that a new interpretation of de Clerambault's work may challenge the sexual politics of the Philosophical Idealism that structured some of the most influential feminist scholarship of the poststructuralist era, and that continues to shape critical thinking today.