The Liberal Radicalism of T.H. Green and Edward Caird
This article gives a new perspective on the relationship between liberalism, class and protest in the late-Victorian and Edwardian political thought and activism. It focuses particularly on two leading British idealists, Thomas Hill Green (1836-82) and Edward Caird (1835-1908). Section one introduce...
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Revue française de civilisation britannique
2026
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| Gaia: | This article gives a new perspective on the relationship between liberalism, class and protest in the late-Victorian and Edwardian political thought and activism. It focuses particularly on two leading British idealists, Thomas Hill Green (1836-82) and Edward Caird (1835-1908). Section one introduces the topic. Section two argues against a wide-spread scholarly interpretation of the British idealists as moralising middle-class collectivists. Section three argues that Green was a radical who foregrounded the experiences of the working classes in his practical activism. Section four argues much the same for Edward Caird, relying on his understudied lectures on social ethics. The article concludes that this analysis demonstrates that socially-embedded liberalism can ground a theory of radical class-sensitive politics. Throughout, the article uses a range of sources including previously obscure newspaper reports in local newspapers. |
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