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The New Leviathan - or Man, Society, Civilization, and Barbarism (Hardcover, Revised edition)
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The New Leviathan - or Man, Society, Civilization, and Barbarism (Hardcover, Revised edition)
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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. The publication
of additional manuscript material in this revised edition
demonstrates in more detail how Collingwood was determined to show
that right and duty occupy different levels of rational practical
consciousness. The additional material also contains Collingwood's
unequivocal rejection of relativism. David Boucher's introduction
shows that The New Leviathan and The Idea of History are integrally
related and that neither can be properly understood independently
of the other. He is also concerned to show how many of
Collingwood's ideas have a contemporary relevance, and that his
ideas on barbarism are not so unusual as they might at first
appear.
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