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The Formative Years of R. G. Collingwood

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  • © 1967

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  1. William M. Johnston

    1. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. The Family Background and Formal Education of R. G. Collingwood

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: A Sketch of R. G. Collingwood’s Career and Major Interests

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 3-16

    3. John Ruskin as an Inspiration for W. G. Collingwood and R. G. Collingwood

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 17-30

    4. The Literae Humaniores Program at Oxford and R. G. Collingwood’s Response to It

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 31-36

    5. R. G. Collingwood’s Research in the Archaeology of Roman Britain

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 37-41

  3. The Unfolding of Collingwood’s Approach to Philosophy 1913–1923

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. R. G. Collingwood’s Religion and Philosophy (1916)

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 45-51

    3. Two Pivotal Essays: “The Devil” (1916) and Ruskin’s Philosophy (1919–1922)

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 52-65

    4. Benedetto Croce as a Foil to R. G. Collingwood

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 66-80

    5. The Influence of Croce, Gentile, and Vico on Collingwood During the Early 1920’s

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 81-90

  4. Speculum Mentis (1924): A Description of the five Forms of Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. General Characteristics of Speculum Mentis

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 93-101

    3. Art and Religion as Elementary Forms of Experience

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 102-112

    4. Science as the Third Form of Experience

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 113-122

    5. History and Philosophy as the Culminating Forms of Experience

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 123-133

  5. R. G. Collingwood’s Isolation in Twentieth Century Thought

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. R. G. Collingwood’s Place in the History of Ideas (1900–1925)

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 137-143

    3. Conclusion: R. G. Collingwood’s Intellectual Loneliness after 1924 and its Roots in His Ruskinian Education

      • William M. Johnston
      Pages 144-146

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 147-167
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Collingwood and Hegel R. G. Collingwood was a lonely thinker. Begrudgingly admired by some and bludgeoned by others, he failed to train a single disciple, just as he failed to communicate to the reading public his vision of the unity of experience. This failure stands in stark contrast to the success of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who won many disciples to a very similar point-of-view and whose influence on subsequent thought, having been rediscovered since 1920, has not yet been adequately explored. Collingwood and Hegel share three fundamental similarities: both men held overwhelming admiration of the Greeks, both possessed uniquely broad knowledge of academic controversies of their day, and both were inalterably convinced that human experience consti­ tutes a single whole. If experts find Collingwood's vision of wholeness less satisfactory than Hegel's, much of the fault lies in the atmosphere in which Col­ lingwood labored. Oxford in the 1920'S and 1930's, sceptical and specialized, was not the enthusiastic Heidelberg and Berlin of 1816 to 183I. What is important in Collingwood is not that he fell short of Hegel but that working under adverse conditions he came so elose. Indeed those unfamiliar with Hegel will find in Collingwood's early works, especially in Speculum M entis, a useful introduction to the great German.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    William M. Johnston

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Formative Years of R. G. Collingwood

  • Authors: William M. Johnston

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9481-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1967

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-8678-0Published: 01 January 1967

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-9481-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 167

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural History

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