Download or read book Idealist Political Philosophy written by Colin Tyler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many critics have portrayed absolute idealism as a dangerous, conservative and 'otherwordly' doctrine, an oppressing philosophy based on speculative logic rather than empirical realities. In this book, Colin Tyler argues against each of these preconceptions, taking as his focus the philosophies of G. W. F. Hegel, T. H. Green, Edward Caird and Bernard Bosanquet. Absolute idealism is shown to offer a powerful alternative to the models of political life and obligation developed by such contemporary philosophers as Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, Will Kymlicka, Bhikhu Parekh, Iris Marion Young and Charles Taylor. The book makes extensive use of certain British idealist manuscripts which were not merely unpublished but were undiscovered until very recently.