Noël O’Sullivan is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Hull. His undergraduate and postgraduate study was at LSE and Harvard. He has published thirteen books, his most recent monograph being European Political Thought since 1945 (2004). Other monographs include Conservatism (1976), Fascism (1983) and The Philosophy of Santayana (1992).
Today, there are plenty of studies on the subject of British Idealism, especially in comparison to the historiographical wasteland that lasted from the 1940s all the way to the 1970s. It is no longer possible to neglect the importance of Idealism in the history of philosophy in Great Britain: a genuine debate on British Idealism has now taken place....