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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.
Published here for the first time is much of a final and
long-anticipated work on philosophy of history by the great Oxford
philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943). The
original text of this uncompleted work has only recently been
discovered. It is accompanied by further, shorter writings by
Collingwood on historical knowledge and inquiry, selected from
previously unpublished manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library,
Oxford. All these writings, besides containing entirely new ideas,
discuss further many of the issues which Collingwood famously
raised in The Idea of History and in his Autobiography. The volume
includes also two conclusions written by Collingwood for lectures
which were eventually revised and published as The Idea of Nature,
but which have relevance also to his philosophy of history. A
lengthy editorial introduction sets these writings in their
context, and discusses philosophical questions to which they give
rise. The editors also consider why Collingwood left The Principles
of History unfinished at his death, and what significance should be
attached to the fact that it contains no reference to the idea of
historical understanding as re-enactment. This volume will be a
landmark publication not just in Collingwood studies but in
philosophy of history generally.
An Essay on Metaphysics (1940) is one of the finest works of the great Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943): in it he considers the nature of philosophy, especially of metaphysics, and puts forward his original and influential theories of absolute presuppositions, causation, and the logic of question and answer. Three fascinating unpublished pieces by Collingwood have been added for this revised edition: they illuminate and amplify the ideas of the Essay, to which they are closely related. The editor Rex Martin contributes a substantial introduction telling the story of the composition of all these works, discussing their major themes, and setting them in the context of Collingwood's philosophy as a whole.
An Essay on Philosophical Method contains the most sustained
discussion in the twentieth century of the subject matter and
method of philosophy and an unparalleled explanation of why
philosophy has a distinctive domain of enquiry that differs from
that of the sciences of nature. This new edition of the Essay
focuses on Collingwood's contribution to metaphilosophy and locates
his argument for the autonomy of philosophy against the twentieth
century trend to naturalize its subject matter. Collingwood argues
that the distinctions which philosophers make, for example, between
the concepts of duty and utility in moral philosophy, or between
the concepts of mind and body in the philosophy of mind, are not
empirical taxonomies that cut nature at the joints but semantic
distinctions to which there may correspond no empirical classes.
This identification of philosophical distinctions with semantic
distinctions provides the basis for an argument against the
naturalization of the subject matter of philosophy for it entails
that not all concepts are empirical concepts and not all
classifications are empirical classifications. Collingwood's
explanation of why philosophy has a distinctive subject matter thus
constitutes a clear challenge to the project of radical empiricism.
While not losing sight of its historical context, the introduction
to this new edition seeks to locate Collingwood's account of
philosophical method against the background of contemporary
concerns about the fate of philosophy in the age of science. This
volume also contains a substantial amount of previously unpublished
material: "The Metaphysics of F. H. Bradley," "Method and
Metaphysics," and Collingwood's fascinatingcorrespondence with
Gilbert Ryle. The latter will prove to be a mine of information for
anyone interested in the origins of analytic philosophy.
James Connelly and Giuseppina D'Oro present a revised edition of R.
G. Collingwood's classic work of 1933, supplementing the original
text with important related writings from Collingwood's manuscripts
which appear here for the first time. The editors also contribute a
substantial new introduction, and the volume will be welcomed by
all historians of twentieth-century philosophy.
2014 Reprint of 1940 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. One of
Collingwood's finest works, "Essay on Metaphysics" considers the
nature of philosophy, and puts forward Collingwood's original and
influential theories of causation, presuppositions, and the logic
of question and answer. From the mid-thirties onwards Collingwood's
work increasingly engaged in a dialogue with the newly emerging
school of analytic philosophy. In this work he attacked the
neo-empiricist assumptions prevalent in early analytic philosophy
and advocated a logical/epistemological transformation of
metaphysics from a study of being or ontology to a study of the
absolute presuppositions or heuristic principles which govern
different forms of enquiry. Collingwood thus occupies a distinctive
position in the history of British philosophy in the first half of
the 20th century. He rejects equally the neo-empiricist assumptions
that prevailed in early analytic philosophy and the kind of
metaphysics that the analytical school sought to overthrow.
This early work by Robin G. Collingwood was originally published in
1923 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory
biography. 'The Principles of Art' is an academic work on the
philosophy of art. Robin George Collingwood was born on 22nd
February 1889, in Cartmel, England. He was the son of author,
artist, and academic, W. G. Collingwood. He was greatly influenced
by the Italian Idealists Croce, Gentile, and Guido de Ruggiero.
Another important influence was his father, a professor of fine art
and a student of Ruskin. He published many works of philosophy,
such as Speculum Mentis (1924), An Essay on Philosophic Method
(1933), and An Essay on Metaphysics (1940).
An Essay on Metaphysics is one of the finest works of the great
Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood
(1889-1943). First published in 1940, it is a broad-ranging work in
which Collingwood considers the nature of philosophy, especially of
metaphysics. He puts forward his well-known doctrine of absolute
presuppositions, expounds a logic of question and answer, and gives
an original and influential account of causation. The book has been
widely read and much discussed ever since. In this revised edition
the complete original text is accompanied by three previously
unpublished essays by Collingwood which will be essential reading
for any serious student of his thought: `The Nature of Metaphysical
Study' (1934), `The Function of Metaphysics in Civilization'
(1938), and `Notes for a Essay on Logic' (1939). These fascinating
writings illuminate and amplify the ideas of the Essay, to which
they are closely related. The distinguished philosopher and
Collingwood scholar Rex Martin has established authoritative
versions of these new texts, added a short set of notes on the
Essay, and contributed a substantial introduction explaining the
story of the composition of all these works, discussing their major
themes, and setting them in the context of Collingwood's philosophy
as a whole.
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 threat to 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.
Published here in paperback for the first time is much of a final and long-anticipated work by R. G. Collingwood on philosophy of history, of which subject he was the greatest exponent in the English language. The original text of this work was only recently discovered. It is accompanied by shorter unpublished writings by Collingwood on historical knowledge and inquiry. A lengthy editorial introduction sets these writings in their context, and discusses philosophical questions to which they give rise.
The New Leviathan is the last book written by the great Oxford philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), the culmination of his many years of work on moral and political philosophy. Originally published in 1942, it is here presented in a new edition, accompanied by extensive additional material from Collingwood's manuscripts and an introduction by the editor, David Boucher, setting the work in its context and showing its continuing importance and relevance.
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.
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.
The Idea of Nature propounds Collingwood's theory of philosophical
method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature. The book
is divided into four major sections: Introduction, Greek Cosmology,
the Renaissance View of Nature, and the Modern View of Nature.
Perhaps more than any of his other books, this one illustrates the
breadth of Collingwood's learning and the many-sidedness of his
philosophical gifts.
This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art"
is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain
things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill,
magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper,
generates a false aesthetic theory. In the course of attacking
these theories the author criticizes various psychological theories
of art, offers a new theory of magic, and reinterprets Plato's
so-called "attack on art," showing that it has been entirely
misunderstood. Finally, he draws important inferences concerning
the position of art in human society.
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