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Released right here for the 1st time is far of a last and long-anticipated paintings at the philosophy of heritage through the good Oxford thinker and historian R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943). the unique textual content of this uncompleted paintings has just recently been came upon and is observed right here via shorter writings through Collingwood on ancient wisdom and inquiry. in addition to containing solely new principles, those tremendous writings talk about some of the matters which Collingwood famously raised within the concept of heritage and in his Autobiography. This booklet additionally contains conclusions written via Collingwood, which have been ultimately revised and released because the proposal of Nature. in addition, this publication features a long editorial creation that places Collingwood's writings of their context and discusses the philosophical questions they start up. A landmark ebook, this paintings will allure not just to these learning Collingwood but additionally to someone greatly desirous about philosophy of historical past.
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Chapter 2 departs somewhat from the plan. Although it argues that the proper subject-matter of history is human action, it also reverts to the question of how historians argue from evidence, expanding considerably the theory of evidence set forth in the preceding chapter, and making connections between 'The Principles of History' and The Principles of Art. It does not discuss process, change, and pseudo-history, as was promised in the Scheme. 22 It does, however, explore implications of the related notion that, as a study of action, all history is history of thought, this leading to a clearer contrast being drawn between human and natural history than is found in most of Collingwood's other writings.
On the relevance of PA for Collingwood's theory of history. For commentators criticizing Collingwood for paying too little attention to emotions in his theory, see van der Dussen, History as a Science, 823. 24 See van der Dussen, History as a Science, 61. 25 Although various individuals have expressed deep appreciation of Collingwood's lectures, the latter never gained the status of treasured texts circulating among devoted followers in the way Wittgenstein's lectures did (for the appreciation of Collingwood as a lecturer, see David Boucher, The Social and Political Thought of R.
G. Collingwood (Cambridge, 1989), 6). It is indicative of how little Collingwood's ideas on history were valued or even known in his lifetime that his name does not appear among the contributors to Raymond Klibansky and H. J. ), Philosophy and History: Essays Presented to Ernst Cassirer (Oxford, 1936), one of the few significant publications on the subject in English during the 1930s. < previous page page_xxi next page > < previous page page_xxii next page > Page xxii departure for the Dutch East Indies as a hurried anticipation of some things he hoped to say, but feared he might not have the opportunity to say, in a final work on history.