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Jan 11, 2006 · Collingwood denounces historians who employ the method of inductive generalisations as writing pseudo-histories. The pseudo history that Collingwood has in mind is of the kind one finds in Hume's account of miracles. According to Hume, a historian who comes across statements which are, in the eyes of the historians, false, should simply discard ...
Mar 4, 1999 · All these are features of what Collingwood calls the intermediate or ‘critical’ stage in the development of modern historical inquiry, which, in its beginnings, was a mere activity of compilation—mere ‘scissors and paste’, as Collingwood likes to say. 5 The question arises by what right the historian acts ‘autonomously’ in such ways, especially in the third.
Mar 4, 1999 · This book aims to advance the critical discussion in three ways: by analysing the idea itself further, concentrating especially on 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 ...
Sep 1, 2007 · Collingwood's point is that all historical knowledge, whether explicitly documented or the product of disciplined imagination, must be actively constructed by the scholar. Historical knowledge, while it relates to ‘the past’ in the sense of some actual time and place, is the product of the historian's own activity in ‘the present’.
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Collingwood's own early views on the subject were unambiguously skeptical, he is clearly rejecting those views and seeking grounds for that rejection.' 1. Maurice Mandelbaum, review of R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, in Journal of Phlilosophly 44 (1947), 187. 2. When I talk about history or the nature of history in this paper, I shall ...
When talking about re-thinking Nelson’s thoughts, Collingwood says that a question arising within the ‘primary series’ of the question-and-answer complex of the historian ‘may act as a switch into another dimension’: ‘I plunge beneath the surface of my mind, and there live a life in which I not merely think about Nelson but am ...
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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.
