Collingwood, Robin George(1889–1943)
Robin George Collingwood, the English philosopher and historian, was born in Coniston, Lancashire. His father, W. G. Collingwood, friend and biographer of J...
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The English historian and philosopher Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) did important historical research on Roman Britain and made original contributions to esthetics, the philosophy of history, a...
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R. G. Collingwood was one of the last of the great polymaths; his range of interests was truly remarkable. He is largely remembered for his philosophy of history and his aesthetics, but he also wrote ...
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In the following essay, Buchdahl focuses on Collingwood's approach in The Idea of History to the problematic nature of historical facts and historical knowledge.
This article is not concerne...
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In the following essay, Milne focuses on ethical and political ideas advanced in Collingwood's works.
Collingwood touched briefly on ethics in Speculum Mentis and in his Autobiography had so...
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In the following essay, Black examines Collingwood's concept of "corrupt consciousness ' and its relationship to his theory of art.
Taken at face value, Collingwood's th...
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In the following essay, Grant finds that Collingwood's ideas concerning art significantly vary throughout the course of his treatise The Principles of Art.
Perhaps no work of English aesthet...
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In the following essay, Lewis addresses the relationship between Collingwood's philosophy of art and concepts of psychoanalysis.
In Art and Its Objects, Richard Wollheim devotes considerable...
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In the following essay, van der Dussen examines Collingwood's view of the idea of progress as both epistemological and metaphysical in nature.
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At the beginning of the chapter in his autobi...
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In the following essay, Kissell characterizes Collingwood's thought as "progressive traditionalism" in the sense that it addresses both the changing phenomena of history and peren...
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In the following essay, Harris discusses Collingwood's ideas on the possibility of an "ultimate standard" of philosophical truth.
The notion of eternal truth is as old as philo...
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In the following essay, Strauss studies the relationship between philosophy and history in Collingwood's works.
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R. G. Collingwood's The Idea of History "is an essay in the ...
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In the following essay, Rotenstreich provides an analysis of Collingwood's views regarding history as a set of facts and as an object of knowledge.
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There is a common distinction between tw...
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In the following essay, Donagan offers an overview of Collingwood's theoretical writings on art.
R. G. Collingwood is generally acknowledged to have contributed more to the philosophy of art...
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In the following excerpt, Johnston focuses on the philosophical career of Benedetto Croce in relation to Collingwood's development as a philosopher
(1) croce and Collingwood: a Comparison
Be...
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In the following essay, Hartt provides an analysis of Collingwood's religious thought.
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Mr. Rubinoff's subtitle is excessively modest. In the Editor's Introduction [to Faith a...
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In the following excerpt, Mink discusses Speculum Mentis as a work that introduced and coordinated the major issues elaborated in Collingwood's later writings.
1 collingwood's Pentateu...
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In the following excerpt, Rubinoff considers the relationship between Collingwood's views on history and philosophy.
1 the Priority of History in Twentieth-century Thought
In 1938, a few yea...
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Collingwood, Robin George (1889–1943)
Robin George Collingwood
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Critical Essay by G. Buchdahl
