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Jan 5, 2012 · 2 R.G. Collingwood. An Autobiography. (Oxford, 1939), Chapter x; he also developed the idea in two lectures of 1935–1936, reprinted in The Idea of History (Oxford, 1946), part v, Chapters 1 and 2. But he traces the emergence of the definition in his own mind to a series of notes which he made during the years 1928–1930.
- R.B. Smith
- 2007
Sep 1, 2007 · R.G. Collingwood defined historical knowledge as essentially ‘scientific’, and saw the historian's task as the ‘re-enactment of past thoughts’. The author argues the need to go beyond Collingwood, first by demonstrating the authenticity of available evidence, and secondly, using Namier as an example, by considering methodology as well ...
- R.B. Smith
- 2007
R. G. CollingwoodIdea of History. Robin George Collingwood, or R. G. Collingwood as he is more usually known, was Waynefleet Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University from 1935 to 1941. During his career Collingwood attempted to integrate and understand human experience and knowledge, and to bring together history and philosophy.
Since the time of Heraclitus and Plato, it has been a common-place that things natural, no less than things human, are in constant change, and that the entire world of nature is a world of 'process' or 'becoming. But this is not what is meant by the historicity of things ; for change and history are not at all the same.
Jan 1, 2012 · The questions discussed by Collingwood in ‘The Limits of Historical Knowledge’, are also dealt with by L.J. Goldstein, in his Historical Knowing (Austin, 1976). In this book Goldstein forcefully argues against the realist position on historical knowledge, linking it to scepticism, as Collingwood did (see esp. ch. 2).
- Jan van der Dussen
- 2012
Jul 31, 2020 · Abstract. This thesis advances a new reading and interpretation of the philosophy of Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943). It explores Collingwood’s conception of Western civilization—which he sometimes identified with liberalism—as a civilization that is ultimately rooted in the Christian faith and animated by a conception of freedom of ...
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In his review of The Idea of History, Maurice Mandelbaum asserts that. "Collingwood's thesis that historical knowledge consists in the historian's re-. enactment in his own mind of the thought which underlay past actions must, II believe, inevitably lead to scepticism."'. Such a belief is not simply an inde-.
