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Rethinking R. G. Collingwood
philosophy, politics and the unity of theory and practice
Abstract
Rethinking R.G. Collingwood reviews Collingwood's thought via his own rethinking of Hegel. It establishes the revisionary character of Collingwood's defence of liberal civilization in theory and practice. Collingwood is seen as avoiding the pitfalls of Hegel's teleological historicism by developing an open and contestable reading of the rationality of liberal civilization, which neither reduces practice to theory nor philosophy to history. The contemporary relevance of Collingwood's standpoint is demonstrated by comparing it with those of recent defenders and critics of liberalism Rawls, Lyotard and MacIntyre.
Details | Table of Contents
dialectic in theory and practice
pp.1-26
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005754_1past and present; principles and practice
pp.73-96
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005754_4art, mind and community
pp.97-119
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005754_5philosophy, politics and the unity of theory and practice
pp.144-173
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005754_7Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2004
Pages: 213
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-43321-6
ISBN (digital): 978-0-230-00575-4
Full citation:
Browning Gary (2004) Rethinking R. G. Collingwood: philosophy, politics and the unity of theory and practice. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.