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Mar 4, 1999 · Abstract. 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 ...
Through this framework—the bodily life of the man, with his childhood, maturity and senescence, his diseases and all the accidents of animal existence—the tides of thought, his own and others', flow crosswise, regardless of its structure, like sea-water through a stranded wreck. Many human emotions are bound up with the spectacle of such ...
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.
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.
With so many new sources being available, and considering existing but previously insufficiently used sources, it is obvious that an interpretation of Collingwood’s philosophy of history only based on the original edition of The Idea of History is superseded and out of place. This chapter gives a general introduction to Collingwood’s philosophy of history based on the various types of ...
- Jan van der Dussen
- 2016
Collingwood's theory of history and of its method-of what the historiar. is trying to do and the proper method of going about it-largely follows. from his conception of the nature of historical fact, which, of course, must be determined before we can decide what the subject-matter of history really. is.
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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 ...
