F.H. Bradley and the history of philosophy : animating a lost idealism / Ben Woodard

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodard, Ben (Benjamin Graham), author.

Series:

New perspectives in ontology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bradley, F. H. (Francis Herbert), 1846-1924.

Bradley, F. H.

Idealism.

idealism (philosophical movement).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Revitalises F. H. Bradley, providing an in-depth analysis of a rich philosophy that infuses everyday experience with the intricacies of idealism. Provides an in-depth analysis of a complex philosophy that has been unduly neglected. Breaks through tired oppositions between analytic and Continental philosophy, especially in examining the works of Sellars and Wittgenstein. Demonstrates that F.H. Bradley's work invites a deep connection between pragmatism, idealism, and philosophical psychology. F. H. Bradley, an exemplar of British Idealism, offered a rich strain of idealism that has been unduly neglected for almost a century. Beyond idealism's reputation as mere fanciful speculation, Bradley's work plumbs the everyday difficulties of thinking a world infused with feeling, of a world that never divides into easily rational fragments. For Bradley, our inner lives and our outer lived experience entangle and pollute one another - a mess that requires collective dialectical thinking to unravel. This book engages with Bradley's central problem, of how to think the gap between one's experience and the structure of reality on which it is founded, as one that still haunts contemporary philosophy. Not only was this pivotal to the post-Continental philosophy of the 2000s but it also remains extremely relevant for renewed interest in Spinoza and Hegel as well as for how contemporary analytic philosophy defines itself with and against metaphysics"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Introduction : blood and dull ink

A tattered world contained : Hegel, Meillassoux, and Bradley

Starting philosophy over again : Bradley, James, and Bergson

Divides and returns : Sellars and the complication of sense

Mass terms and metaphysics : analytic thought and Bradley

Ideal and finite selves : idealism and temporality

Feeling the empirical : Bradley against Whitehead

Beetles and words : Bradley and Wittgenstein’s philosophical psychology

Conclusion : idealism without caricature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed July 15, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Woodard, Ben (Benjamin Graham) F.H. Bradley and the history of philosophy

ISBN:

9781399544504

1399544500

9781399544498

1399544497

OCLC:

1545080882

Publisher Number:

CIPO000292029

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license