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- 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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Mar 4, 1999 · Collingwood sees the interpolative, constructive aspect of historical thinking, working from selected sources and proceeding in accordance with certain principles of inquiry, as gradually elaborating a ‘web’ of accepted fact, an increasingly plausible and detailed ‘picture’ of a portion of the past, composed of assertions made in the ...
Mar 4, 1999 · 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.
His major work, The Idea of History, was published posthumously in 1946. In the introduction to The Idea of History Collingwood attempted to define a "philosophy of history" and discussed the nature, object, method and value of history.
Collingwood's theory of history is variously stated in his works, and it is not always clear whether what he has written in one place is compatible with what he has written in others.
Collingwood is widely noted for The Idea of History (1946), which was collated from various sources soon after his death by a student, T. M. Knox. It came to be a major inspiration for philosophy of history in the English-speaking world and is extensively cited, leading to an ironic remark by commentator Louis Mink that Collingwood is coming to ...
‘The philosophy of history, so understood’, Collingwood says, ‘means bringing to light the principles used in historical thinking, and criticizing them; its function is to criticize and regulate these principles, with the object of making history truer and historically better’ (IH, 346).
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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 ...
