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History as Re-enactment - R. G. Collingwood's Idea of History (Hardcover, New)
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History as Re-enactment - R. G. Collingwood's Idea of History (Hardcover, New)
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A central motif of R. G. Collingwood's philosophy of history is the
idea that historical understanding requires a re-enactment of past
experience. However, there have been sharp disagreements about the
acceptability of this idea, and even its meaning. This book aims to
advance the critical discussion in three ways: by analysing the
idea itself further, concentrating especially upon the contrast
which Collingwood drew between it and scientific understanding; by
exploring the limits of its applicability to what historians
ordinarily consider their proper subject-matter; and by clarifying
the relationship between it and some other key Collingwoodian
ideas, such as the place of imagination in historical inquiry, the
sense in which history deals with the individual, the essential
perspectivity of historical judgement, and the importance of
narrative and periodization in historical thinking. Professor Dray
defends Collingwood against a good deal of recent criticism, while
pointing to ways in which his position requires revision or
development. History as Re-enactment draws upon a wide range of
Collingwood's published writings, and makes considerable use of his
unpublished manuscripts. It is the most systematic study yet of
this central doctrine of Collingwood's philosophy of history, and
will stand as a landmark in Collingwood studies.
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