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The Philosophy of Enchantment - Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Anthropology (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Philosophy of Enchantment - Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Anthropology (Paperback, New Ed)
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This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the
British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood
on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in
his previously available work. At the centre of the book are six
chapters of a study of folktale and magic, composed by Collingwood
in the mid-1930s and intended for development into a book. Here
Collingwood applies the principles of his philosophy of history to
problems in the long-term evolution of human society and culture.
This is preceded, in Part I, by a range of contextualizing material
on such topics as the relations between music and poetry, the
nature of language, the value of Jane Austen's novels, the
philosophy of art, and the relations between aesthetic theory and
artistic practice. Part III of the volume consists of two essays,
one on the relationship between art and mechanized civilization,
and the second, written in 1931, on the collapse of human values
and civilization leading up to the catastrophe of armed conflict.
These offer a devastating analysis of the consequences that attend
the desertion of liberal principles, indeed of all politics as
such, in the ultimate self-annihilation of military conquest. The
volume opens with three substantial introductory essays by the
editors, authorities in the fields of critical and literary
history, social and cultural anthropology, and the philosophy of
history and the history of ideas; they provide their explanatory
and contextual notes to guide the reader through the texts. The
Philosophy of Enchantment brings hitherto unrecognized areas of
Collingwood's achievement to light, and demonstrates the broad
range of Collingwood's intellectual engagements, their integration,
and their relevance to current areas of debate in the fields of
philosophy, cultural studies, social and literary history, and
anthropology.
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