Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Principles of History : And Other Writings in Philosophy of History, Paperback / softback Book

The Principles of History : And Other Writings in Philosophy of History Paperback / softback

Edited by W. H. (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Ottaw Dray, W. J. van der (Professor of Humanities, Professor of Humanities, Open University of the Neth Dussen

Paperback / softback

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

Published here for the first time in paperback is much of a final and long-anticipated work on philosophy of history by the renowned Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.

G. Collingwood (1889-1943). The original text of this uncompleted work was only recently discovered in the archives of Oxford University Press.

Also found there were two conclusions written by Collingwood for lectures which were eventually revised and published as The Idea of Nature, but which have relevance to his philosophy of history as well.

These pieces are included in this volume, accompanied by further short writings by Collingwood on historical knowledge and inquiry, selected from previously unpublished manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

All these writings, besides containing entirely new ideas, discuss further many of the issues which Collingwood is famous for having raised in The Idea of History and in his Autobiography. A lengthy editorial introduction sets these writings in their context, and discusses philosophical questions to which they give rise.

The editors also consider why Collingwood left The Principles of History unfinished at his death, and what significance should be attached to the fact that it contains no reference to one of his best-known ideas: that of historical understanding as re-enactment.

This volume will be a significant publication not just in Collingwood studies but in philosophy of history generally.

Information

£57.00

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information