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Dr Maria Dimova-Cookson's Outputs (31)

Positive Freedom during and after the Cold War (2024)
Book Chapter
Dimova-Cookson, M. (in press). Positive Freedom during and after the Cold War. In M. Beech, & K. Hickson (Eds.), The Idea of the Good Society: Essays in Honour of Raymond Plant. Oxford University Press

Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British Thought (2024)
Book Chapter
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2024). Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British Thought. In G. Gaus, F. D'Agostino, & R. Muldoon (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy (145-155). (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003411598-15

Key features of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century British thought include analysis of the nature of liberty, keen interest in the role of the state in creating conditions for personal development, and belief either in the perfectibility of... Read More about Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British Thought.

The Two Modern Liberties of Constant and Berlin (2022)
Journal Article
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2022). The Two Modern Liberties of Constant and Berlin. History of European Ideas, 48(3), 229-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2022.2056336

The paper challenges the general perception that the positive-negative freedom discourse privileges negative liberty. It demonstrates that Constant and Berlin’s dual freedom conceptual scheme contains the blueprint of a modern concept of positive fre... Read More about The Two Modern Liberties of Constant and Berlin.

“Welfarist and Moral Justifications of the Strong State: Reconciling Hobhouse’s and Bosanquet’s Perspectives on the Role of the State” (2014)
Book Chapter
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2014). “Welfarist and Moral Justifications of the Strong State: Reconciling Hobhouse’s and Bosanquet’s Perspectives on the Role of the State”. In C. Marshall, & S. Guy (Eds.), The Victorian legacy in political thought (145-166). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0351-0681-7

The paper traces the legacy of late Victorian and early Edwardian political thought in the shaping contemporary political values and theories. Nowadays the debate on the desirability of big government is highly heated, even though the welfare state h... Read More about “Welfarist and Moral Justifications of the Strong State: Reconciling Hobhouse’s and Bosanquet’s Perspectives on the Role of the State”.

“Do We Owe More to Fellow Nationals? The Particular and Universal Ethics in Bosanquet’s General Will and Miller’s Public Culture” (2014)
Book Chapter
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2014). “Do We Owe More to Fellow Nationals? The Particular and Universal Ethics in Bosanquet’s General Will and Miller’s Public Culture”. In T. Brooks (Ed.), Ethical citizenship : British idealism and the politics of recognition (200-223). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329967_11

There are significant similarities between Bosanquet’s ethical function of the state and Miller’s defence of nations as communities that generate duties. Bosanquet’s references to the state are predominantly to the nation state (1917a: p. 295), and M... Read More about “Do We Owe More to Fellow Nationals? The Particular and Universal Ethics in Bosanquet’s General Will and Miller’s Public Culture”.

“T.H. Green” (2013)
Book Chapter
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2013). “T.H. Green”. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell's International Encyclopaedia of Ethics (2238-2243). Wiley

Can social justice, economic redistribution and voluntariness fit into a single conception of liberty? Pettit versus Hobhouse (2013)
Journal Article
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2013). Can social justice, economic redistribution and voluntariness fit into a single conception of liberty? Pettit versus Hobhouse. International Journal of Social Economics, 40(12), 1108-1122. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijse-03-2013-0074

Purpose – The paper aims to examine and compare two understandings of liberty that have dealt successfully with the normative and analytical challenge of reconciling liberty with social justice: Philip Pettit's republican liberty as nondomination and... Read More about Can social justice, economic redistribution and voluntariness fit into a single conception of liberty? Pettit versus Hobhouse.

Liberty as Welfare: the basecamp counterpart of positive freedom (2012)
Journal Article
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2012). Liberty as Welfare: the basecamp counterpart of positive freedom. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 18(2), 133-165

L.T.Hobhouse's concept of liberty--the concept at the heart of new liberalism--is based on T.H. Green's positive freedom. However, this paper demonstrates that the former has its own distinct nature and can be usefully defined as 'liberty as welfare'... Read More about Liberty as Welfare: the basecamp counterpart of positive freedom.

Justice as a secondary moral ideal: the British idealists and the personal ethics perspective in understanding social justice (2011)
Journal Article
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2011). Justice as a secondary moral ideal: the British idealists and the personal ethics perspective in understanding social justice. European Journal of Political Theory, 10(1), 46-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885110386005

This paper aims to show the advantages of the personal ethics perspective employed by the British idealist in the analysis of justice. In the context of Green’s and Bosanquet’s political theory, justice is a secondary moral ideal. Yet, it is argued h... Read More about Justice as a secondary moral ideal: the British idealists and the personal ethics perspective in understanding social justice.