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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the political thought and practice of Raymond Plant (Professor Lord Plant of Highfield) and celebrates the three aspects of his public life which speak to his idea of the good society: scholarship, politics, and civil society.
List of contents
- List of Contributors
- 1: Matt Beech;Kevin Hickson: Introduction
- 2: Thom Brooks: The Problem of Hegel's Problem of Poverty
- 3: Joan Orme: Raymond Plant's Contribution to Social Work
- 4: Andrew Vincent: Democratic Socialism and the New Liberalism
- 5: Peter Taylor-Gooby: Raymond Plant's Contribution to the Welfare State
- 6: João Carlos Espada: Raymond Plant, F.A. Hayek, and Social Justice
- 7: Hillel Steiner: Two Socialisms and Two Equalities
- 8: Maria Dimova-Cookson: Positive Freedom During and After the Cold War
- 9: David Lipsey: Crosland, Plant, and New Labour
- 10: David Miller: Raymond Plant and Market Socialism
- 11: Simon Griffiths: Plant and the Transformation of the Left
- 12: Pauline Hadaway: The Slow Strange Death of Labour Britain
- 13: Philip Norton: A Poisoned Chalice? The Plant Report
- 14: Fran Bennett: Plant and the Fabian Commission on Taxation and Citizenship
- 15: John Milbank: The Metacrisis of Liberalism and the Metaphysics of History
- 16: Ralph Norman: Liberalism, Religion, and the Common Good
- Index
About the author
Matt Beech is reader in politics and director of the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull and IES Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley. He publishes on Conservative and Labour history and ideas and is researching a monograph on the Culture Wars. His most recent book is the co-edited volume with Simon Lee,
Conservative Governments in the Age of Brexit (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and associate member of the Centre de Recherches en Civilisation Britannique at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford, Berkeley, and Flinders.
Kevin Hickson is senior lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool where he has worked for 20 years. He writes extensively on British politics, political history, and ideologies. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His publications include
Britain's Conservative Right since 1945: Traditional Toryism in a Cold Climate and
Peter Shore: Labour's Forgotten Patriot. He is currently writing a political and intellectual biography of Douglas Jay.
Summary
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the political thought and practice of Raymond Plant (Professor Lord Plant of Highfield) and celebrates the three aspects of his public life which speak to his idea of the good society: scholarship, politics, and civil society.
