The Social And Political Thought Of R G Collingwood

Author : David Boucher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892681
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood written by David Boucher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the political philosophy of the British philosopher R. G. Collingwood, best known for his contributions to aesthetics and the philosophy of history. However his political thought, and in particular his book The New Leviathan, have been neglected, even dismissed in some quarters. Professor Boucher argues for the importance of this political theory and provides a perspicuous account of its development and originality. He contends that The New Leviathan is an attempt to reconcile philosophy and history, theory and practice. Collingwood's distinctive contribution to modern political and social thought is seen as his sustained project of distinguishing utility from right, and right from duty; the passion for history coincides with the ethical thought because Collingwood wishes to identify dutiful, or moral, action with a historical civilization. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript material, this book will prove invaluable to political philosophers and intellectual historians.

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198235668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Political Philosophy written by Robin George Collingwood and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the first time R. G. Collingwood's political and related writings, in which he places political action in the context of action as a whole and addresses the substantive social and political issues - in particular Nazism and Fascism - which he perceived as a threatto European civilization. This is the first time that substantial philosophical arguments from the unpublished manuscripts have been reproduced since Malcolm Knox edited the posthumously published Idea of History.

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Political Philosophy written by Robin George Collingwood and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the first time the political and related writings of R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943), the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist. Including a great deal of previously unpublished or inaccessible material, the writings place political action in the context of action as a whole and addresses substantive social and political issues, particularly Nazism and Fascism, which Collingwood recognized as a threat to European civilization.

Author : R.G. Collingwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614275558
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Leviathan; Or, Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism written by R.G. Collingwood and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Reprint of 1942 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was a British philosopher and practicing archaeologist best known for his work in aesthetics and the philosophy of history. "The New Leviathan," originally published in 1942, a few months before the author's death, is the book which R. G. Collingwood chose to write in preference to completing his life's work on the philosophy of history. It was a reaction to the Second World War and the threat which Nazism and Fascism constituted to civilization. The book draws upon many years of work in moral and political philosophy and attempts to establish the multiple and complex connections between the levels of consciousness, society, civilization, and barbarism. Collingwood argues that traditional social contract theory has failed to account for the continuing existence of the non-social community and its relation to the social community in the body politic. He is also critical of the tendency within ethics to confound right and duty.

Author : Peter Johnson
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845406648
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosopher and Appeasement written by Peter Johnson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is volume one of a two-part series. Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty Intelligence during the First World War and although he was not physically robust enough to play an active role in the Second World War, he was swift to condemn the policies of appeasement which he thought largely responsible for bringing it about. The author uses a blend of political philosophy, history and discussion of political policy to uncover what Collingwood says about the First World War, the Peace Treaty which followed it, and the crises which led to the Second World War in 1939, together with the response he mustered to it before his death in 1943. The aim is to reveal the kind of liberalism he valued and explain why he valued it. By 1940 Collingwood came to see that a liberalism separated from Christianity would be unable to meet the combined evils of Fascism and Nazism. How Collingwood arrived at this position, and how viable he finally considered it, is the story told in these volumes.

Author : Peter Skagestad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350152927
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood written by Peter Skagestad and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, with his work spanning theory of knowledge, metaphysics, philosophy of art, philosophy of history, and social and political philosophy. The full range and reach of Collingwood's philosophical thought is covered by Peter Skagestad in this study. Following Collingwood's education and his Oxford career, Skagestad considers his relationship with prominent Italian philosophers Croce and De Ruggiero and the British idealists. Taking Collingwood's publications in order, he explains under what circumstances they were produced and the reception of his work by his contemporaries and by posterity, from Religion and Philosophy (1916) and Speculum Mentis (1923) to the posthumously published The Idea of History (1946). Featuring full coverage of Collingwood's philosophy of art, Skagestad also considers his argument, in response to A. J. Ayer, that metaphysics is the historical study of absolute presuppositions. Most importantly, Skagestad reveals how relevant Collingwood is today, through his concept of barbarism as a perceptive diagnosis of totalitarianism and his prescient warning of the rise of populism in the 21st century.

Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230005756
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking R.G. Collingwood written by Gary Browning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking R.G. Collingwood reviews Collingwood's thought via his own rethinking of Hegel. It establishes the revisionary character of Collingwood's defence of liberal civilization in theory and practice. Collingwood is seen as avoiding the pitfalls of Hegel's teleological historicism by developing an open and contestable reading of the rationality of liberal civilization, which neither reduces practice to theory nor philosophy to history. The contemporary relevance of Collingwood's standpoint is demonstrated by comparing it with those of recent defenders and critics of liberalism Rawls, Lyotard and MacIntyre.

Author : James Connelly
Publisher : Imprint Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780907845317
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics, Method and Politics written by James Connelly and published by Imprint Academic. This book was released on 2003 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Collingwood developed a complete political philosophy of civilization. It also demonstrates that his philosophical work comprises a unity in which there is no fundamental discontinuity between his earlier and later writings.

Author : A. Astrov
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230508030
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On World Politics written by A. Astrov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking and speaking about the conditions of world order. World order is understood not as an arrangement of entities but a complex of variously situated activities conducted by individuals as members of diverse associations of their own. Within contemporary International Relations it entails a theoretical position, neotraditionalism, as a reformulation of the initial 'traditionalist' approach in the wake of rationalism and subsequent reflectivist critique.

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three Laws of Politics written by Robin George Collingwood and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: