Unpublished Manuscripts in British Idealism: Political Philosophy, Theology and Social Thought (2 Volumes)

The British Idealist movement flourished between the 1860s and 1920s and exerted a very significant influence in the USA, Canada, and India (most notably on John Dewey and Josiah Royce), in addition to laying the groundwork for the thought of Michael Oakeshott and R.G. Collingwood. Its leading figures - particularly Thomas Hill Green and Edward Caird - have left a number of complete or near-complete manuscripts in various British university archives, many of which remain unpublished. The proposal is to widen access to this unpublished material by transcribing, editing and then publishing the most intellectually developed pieces. The project focuses on the moral, political, and religious writings. These areas are of the greatest interest to scholars. Many of these items shed significant light on areas of their thought where these philosophers were notoriously cryptic and at key points frustratingly brief.