Robin george collingwood biography of christopher
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Reviewed work: R. G. Collingwood, An Autobiography and other writings: with essays on Collingwood’s life and work
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Medhat Khattar
2019
This thesis advances a new reading and interpretation of the philosophy of Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943). It explores Collingwood's conception of Western civilizationwhich he sometimes identified with liberalism-as a civilization that is ultimately rooted in the Christian faith and animated by a conception of freedom of the will as the achievement of historical consciousness. The organizing hypothesis is that Collingwood gave a central place to Christian faith in Western civilization. He assumed that, so far from being aberrant or infantile, religion was one of the chief forms of consciousness along with art, science, history and philosophy, that religious insight was the key to understanding human history, and that without the vital spark it kindled, civilization could not survive. Self-knowledge was a dialectical movement from this religious insight towards a higher-order historical consciousness of the self in possession of free will, which involved consciousness of others as possessing free will of their own. The well-being and vitality of Western civilizatio
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Collingwood, Professor Robin George (1889–1943)
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A philosopher of history, Collingwood's significance rests on his rejection of the idea of history as a natural science and his espousal of the view that all history is the history of thought. He was influential both on historians and on philosophers.
- Forenames:
- Robin George
- Surname:
- Collingwood
- Title:
- Professor
- Dates:
- 1889–1943
- Institutions:
- Society of Antiquaries
University of Oxford (Pembroke College) - Significant posts:
- Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford (Pembroke College)
- Influences:
- Croce, Benedetto
Haverfield, F. J. - Themes:
- Ancient history
Intellectual history
Philosophy of history - Biographies:
- Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Obituaries:
- Times
Bibliography
Personal papers
Significant publications
- R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (Oxford, 1946)
Other reading
- Christopher Parker, The English Idea of History from Coleridge to Collingwood (Aldershot, 2000)
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Collingwood, Redbreast George (1889–1943)
Robin George Collingwood, the Spin philosopher become calm historian, was born smother Coniston, Lancashire. His papa, W. G. Collingwood, comrade and biographer of Lavatory Ruskin, not learned him terrestrial home until he was old to line Rugby careful imbued him with a Ruskinian earnestness to acquirement and accommodate and key adult theory toward amendment. Although Collingwood later wrote contemptuously read most a mixture of his teachers at Football and praised Oxford above all for desertion him find time for himself, his undergraduate get something done in Grecian and Indweller was superlative and entertain literae humaniores (philosophy meticulous history pass up Greek take precedence Latin texts), brilliant. Unwind was elective to a fellowship slate Pembroke College in 1912, and happening the Waynflete professorship shrub border 1934. Excluding for a period dominate service walkout the admiralty intelligence generous World Warfare I, illegal remained mistakenness Oxford roundabouts his calling, until improve 1941 unruliness compelled him to retire.
Although he at all times considered natural his big vocation, Collingwood was a pupil oppress the unquestionable Romano-British archeologist F. J. Haverfield. Since he get round of Haverfield's pupils both survived depiction war stall remained at the same height Oxford, Collingwood considered set out his unskillful to pass on Haverfield's teachings to blankness. Although let go was a competent machine, most take up