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John A. Hobson is widely recognised as the most important British New Liberal thinker of politics and political economy of the twentieth century. The Selected Writings of John A. Hobson showcases an exciting and previously unpublished collection of Hobson's writings and lectures from 1932-1938 that Hobson presented at the South Place Ethical Society in the last decade of his life.The lectures and the introduction produce a fresh reading of Hobson's thinking and theorization of International Relations, thereby revealing a much more complex thinker than has conventionally been understood. Edited

Details the political philosophy of Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882), Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923), R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), & Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990). Green is seen by most at the founder of British Idealism, & why he remains important to contemporary scholarship is demonstrated. Renewed interest in Bosanquet is seen to have led to scholarly revisiting of British idealism. His political views, ethics, philosophy of history, metaphysics, religion, & relation to other Idealist philosophers of his time are considered. It is asserted that current interest in Bosanquet is not limited to the historical as his thought has played a role in work on liberalism; human rights, citizenship, & multiculturalism; & law & ethics. It was not until the 1980s that interest in Collingwood's political philosophy quickened; attention is given to his "philosophy of civilization." Oakeshott is viewed as the last of the great 20th-century Idealists. The key literature on him is scrutinized. Interest in his work was spurred by his Rationalization in Politics and Other Essays (1962), while his On Human Conduct (1975) brought him international note. 228 References. J. Zendejas