Common Good Politics

Colin Tyler is Professor of Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for Idealism and the New Liberalism, Hull University, UK. He has published over fifty works and taught at universities in Italy, Japan, Poland, the UK and the US. Colin is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and edits The International Journal of Social Economics.

• Introduction: “British idealism and contemporary common good politics”.- Part 1: British idealism and common good politics.- Chapter One: “The Liberal Hegelianism of Edward Caird: Or, how to transcend the social economics of Kant and the romantics”.- Chapter Two: “Contesting the Common Good: T.H. Green and contemporary republicanism”.- Chapter Three: “‘This Dangerous Drug of Violence’: Making sense of Bernard Bosanquet’s common good theory of punishment”.- Chapter Four:  “A Lost World or a New Hope? J.A. Hobson’s New Liberalism and the ‘organic conception of world-politics”.- Part 2: Contemporary issues in common good politics.- Chapter Five: “Power, Alienation and Community in Capitalist Societies”.- Chapter Six: “Social Justice and International Society: Principles for rethinking the international institutional architecture”.- Chapter Seven: “‘History’s Actors’? The ‘war on terror’ and George W. Bush’s attacks on international society”.- Chapter Eight: “Blair’s Legacy: Internationalcommunity, domestic security and the continuing erosion of civil rights”.- Chapter Nine: “Economic Migration, Social Justice and the Common Good: A public lecture”.