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Sir John Robert Seeley and his intellectual legacy : = Religion, imperialism and nationalism in Victorian and post-Victorian Britain.

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Title/Author:	Sir John Robert Seeley and his intellectual legacy :/
Reminder of title:	Religion, imperialism and nationalism in Victorian and post-Victorian Britain.
Author:	Worsley, David J.
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Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01, Section: C.
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Sir John Robert Seeley and his intellectual legacy : = Religion, imperialism and nationalism in Victorian and post-Victorian Britain.
Worsley, David J.

Sir John Robert Seeley and his intellectual legacy :Religion, imperialism and nationalism in Victorian and post-Victorian Britain. - 1 online resource (349 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01, Section: C.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manchester (United Kingdom), 2001.

Includes bibliographical references

This thesis examines the ideas of the historian J.R. Seeley, and their impact on British religious and political thought. It examines both the contemporary reception of his publications, and his long-term influence. Seeley's first major publication, Ecce Homo, supposedly a biography of Jesus, was admired by Broad Churchmen, heavily criticised by Evangelicals, and given a mixed reception by the High Church and the unorthodox. His second broadly theological work. Natural Religion, was an attempt to reconcile religion and science, but it did not satisfy the partisans of either. In the decades following his death, Seeley's views on both Christ and the philosophy of religion were ignored by many who wrote on these topics, even among those who held similar beliefs. However, he was strongly admired by some of the most important early twentieth-century Anglican clergymen. Seeley's historical writing was principally concerned with international politics, and the relationship between domestic and foreign policy. His own outlook was that of a liberal nationalist, but Seeley's liberalism was of an anti-pluralist type that should perhaps be called modernism instead. In The Life and Times of Stein he provided a historical example of an organic nation-state based around such principles. This work attracted criticism from the individualist A. V. Dicey, whilst it was praised by the collectivist liberal Grant Duff. This pattern was repeated in the reception of Seeley's most famous book. The Expansion of England, in which he argued that the British Empire could be transformed into a powerful organic state through the adoption of a federal system. Seeley later participated in the Imperial Federation movement. Subsequently, many politicians and intellectuals claimed that they had been influenced by The Expansion of England. However, closer examination shows that their beliefs were often very different to Seeley's, whose imperialism was of a consolidatory type that represented only one strand of British imperialist thought. Indeed, Seeley was later cited by some of the most ardent opponents of imperialism. His views were most closely paralleled by a group of geopolitical thinkers writing shortly afterwards, who combined various elements found in Seeley's thought (of which they were aware) to produce more detailed theories, which were ultimately more influential than Seeley's ideas. Given the enormous initial impact of Seeley's major publications, he had surprisingly little long-term influence. It is suggested that this is because his general outlook was outdated. Previous research has shown that his ideas were formed as a direct reaction to Comtean Positivism and Christian Socialism. However, ultimately Seeley's thought most closely resembled German romanticism of the early nineteenth century, and it incorporated an implicit philosophical idealism. The impact of Darwinism, which could have provided him with a means of synthesising his religious and political thought, was not reflected in his writings. Seeley remained a representative of an optimistic pre-Darwinian nationalism that became less relevant as the Great War approached. The last traces of his original influence were found in the 1960s.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438140912Subjects--Topical Terms:

795061
Biographies.
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Seeley, John RobertIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Sir John Robert Seeley and his intellectual legacy : = Religion, imperialism and nationalism in Victorian and post-Victorian Britain.
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