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Dr Maria Dimova-Cookson's Outputs (15)

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.

“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

"Introduction" (2009)
Book Chapter
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2009). "Introduction". In M. Dimova-Cookson, & P. Stirk (Eds.), Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict (1-16). Routledge

'Resolving Moral Conflicts:British Idealist and Contemporary Liberal Approaches to Value Pluralism and Moral Conduct' (2006)
Book Chapter
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2006). 'Resolving Moral Conflicts:British Idealist and Contemporary Liberal Approaches to Value Pluralism and Moral Conduct'. In M. Dimova-Cookson, & W. J. Mander (Eds.), T. H. Green : ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy (292-315). Oxford University Press

Recent years have seen a growth of interest in the great English idealist thinker T. H. Green (1836-82) as philosophers have begun to overturn received opinions of his thought and to rediscover his original and important contributions to ethics, meta... Read More about 'Resolving Moral Conflicts:British Idealist and Contemporary Liberal Approaches to Value Pluralism and Moral Conduct'.