TYLER, Dr. Colin. FRHists. BA
(Hons) (Reading), MA with distinction (York), DPhil
(York)
Dr Colin Tyler joined the Department in September 2000, having
worked for several years as a Research Fellow with the
Bentham Project at
University College London. His main areas of research are in
the history of British political theory since 1837 (especially
British idealism and the New Liberalism), critical political
economy, and critical and post-structural theory (especially
performativity as a social and political theory). He has
published widely, with his most recent book being
The
Metaphysics of Self-realisation and Freedom (2010). This
is the first of two parts of
The Liberal Socialism of T.H.
Green. He is co-editor of a volume of lectures by the
New Liberal John Atkinson Hobson, as well as being co-editor of
Collingwood and British Idealism Studies. He was a
Visiting Scholar at St. John's College, Oxford, in August and
September 2007. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical
Society.
Recent Publications
Research Interests
- British idealism and the New Liberalism, as intellectual
history and a contemporary political resource
- The social and political theory of performativity
- Critical political economy
Areas of PhD
Supervision
- British idealism and New Liberalism
- The social and political theory of performativity
- Socialist theory, including Marxism
- Critical political economy
- Modern political theory, especially British post-1837.
AHRB Resource Enhancement Award, 2004 £27,714 grant for a
postdoctoral research assistant and various other expenses involved
in producing a two-volume critical edition of previously
unpublished British idealist writings, a volume of early responses
to British idealism, a collection of writings by John Cook Wilson
and a series of bibliographies of key British idealists.