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This e-book examines the legacy of philosophical idealism in 20th century British old and political suggestion. It demonstrates that absolutely the idealism of the 19th century was once notably remodeled by way of R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott, and Benedetto Croce. those new idealists constructed a brand new philosophy of historical past with an emphasis at the research of human organisation, and historicist humanism. This research finds the impression of the recent idealism at the considered a bunch of admired revisionist historians within the welfare nation interval, targeting E.H. Carr, Isaiah Berlin, G.R. Elton, Peter Laslett, and George Kitson Clark. It exhibits that those historians used the recent idealism to restate the character of heritage and to revise glossy English background opposed to the backdrop of the highbrow, social and political difficulties of the welfare kingdom interval, hence making new idealist revisionism a key culture in early postwar historiography.
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105 Some advocates of national efficiency, not least the Fabians Sidney and Beatrice Webb, justified their policy proposals in part by recourse to histories that were purportedly based on the same scientific ethos—excavating previously unknown facts in a hitherto unknown systematic and comprehensive manner so as to know the ‘real’ past—that could solve the question of efficiency in the hands of dispassionate and non-partisan administrators who had the welfare of the entire nation in their interest.
This is where Croce’s famous (or infamous) principle that all history is contemporary history takes front stage. Another linguistic guise of this principle, which is more informative, states that historical knowledge ‘is the act of comprehending and understanding induced by the requirements of practical life’. Croce’s concept of practical requirement is capacious: the ‘practical’ requirement can be moral, economic, aesthetic, or intellectual. 75 So by ‘practical’ and ‘contemporary’, Croce did not mean partisan and subjective.
First, due to the ‘economy’ of human records, there is always only partial evidence for any phenomenon to be studied. Second, a historian inevitably selects not only his research topic and period but also what he or she believes is significant and of interest in the past. ’119 This means, in Croce’s words, that all history is contemporary history, and that it finds an impulse or drive from a present perspective engaged in addressing a particular problem. Third, history is the activity of concrete and historically situated human minds.