Saving Private Hegel: Australian Liberalism and the 1914-1918 war

Title: Saving Private Hegel: Australian Liberalism and the 1914-1918 war
Creator: Moore, Tod
Relation: Australian Journal of Politics & History Vol. 61, Issue 4, p. 501-514
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12115
Publisher: Wiley
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: In this essay I explore the pamphlet literature and related sources, in order to assess the effects of the 1914¿1918 War on liberal political ideas in Australia. The main focus of the study is the WEA intellectuals in Sydney and Brisbane, and the core group of Deakinite liberals in Melbourne as represented by the overlapping membership of the Boobooks Club and the Round Table. Themes of compulsion, Progressivism, industrial relations, citizenship, and internationalism are examined. In particular the tension which wartime experiences produced within the high idealism of Kantian and Hegelian new liberal political philosophy is investigated. The bitterness caused by the war and the doubts raised about German philosophy help us to understand the decline of statist and idealist elements within liberal thought in Australia.
Subject: liberalism; Australian politics; industrial relations; wartime
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1313389
Identifier: uon:22589
Identifier: ISSN:0004-9522
Language: eng
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