The Philosophy of the State and the Practice of Welfare: The Writings of Bernard and Helen Bosanquet

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Synopsis
Unemployment, poverty and the role of the state were themes which structured the discourse of social theory and the developing social legislation in Britain at the end of the Victorian period and the early twentieth century. This collection examines the neglected contribution of Bernard and Helen Bosanquet to that contemporary maelstrom of ideas about the condition of the people, the process of social reform and the practice of social work. Like their contemporaries Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the Bosanquets were a significant partnership integrating philosophy and practice, theory and action. Bernard Bosanquet, the Idealist philosopher, is best known for his study The Philosophical Theory of the State. His wife Helen, economist and social worker, was a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws (1905-9) and between 1909 and 1921, editor of the Charity Organisation Review. Themselves selective supporters of state welfare schemes, they helped to re-fashion the Charity Organisation Society away from its nineteenth century individualism by their advocacy of organic social collectivism. But character, self development and responsibility remained central tenets of their welfare programme. This collection re-publishes most of the Bosanquets' principal books and articles relating to the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare. The development of their ideas in the context of their own time, and their relevance to current debates in the theory and practice of welfare, forms the basis of a substantial introduction by David Gladstone, the series editor. This Volume charts the life of Bernard Bosanquet.
Copyright:
1997

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
336 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040129722
Related ISBNs:
9781040129630, 9781003100805, 9780415750233
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Introduction David Gladstone
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Helen Bosanquet
Edited by:
J. H. Muirhead

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