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F. H. Bradley and the History of Philosophy

Animating a Lost Idealism
  • Ben Woodard
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2026
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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.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    Acknowledgements

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    Introduction

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    Part I Carving a World Without Joints

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    Part II Feeling One’s Way

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    Conclusion

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    Bibliography

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    Index

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399544498
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Keywords for this book
F.H. Bradley; British Idealism; Analytic-Continental Divide; History of Philosophy; Alfred North Whitehead; Ludwig Wittgenstein; William James; Henri Bergson; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Baruch Spinoza; Wilfrid Sellars; philosophy of experience; Monism; Pluralism
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