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Feb 28, 2005 · Admiral Lord Collingwood was a colossus of a man, but few remember his crucial role in Britain's naval history. Modest Collingwood's name has sunk with little trace. He fired the first shot at ...
Collingwood was convinced from an early age that history is a form of knowledge which is sui generis, and the doctrine he was perhaps most anxious to combat was the positivist theory that historical knowledge could be reduced to scientific knowledge in the narrower sense of the term.
Jan 18, 2019 · The Idea of History (1946) is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. In addition to being the most studied of his works, Collingwood himself also considered the philosophy of history to be the focal point of his intellectual legacy.
- Jonas Ahlskog
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- 2018
Mar 4, 1999 · A central motif of R. G. Collingwood's philosophy of history is the idea that historical understanding requires a re-enactment of past experience. However, there have been sharp disagreements about the acceptability of this idea, and even its meaning.
History is, after all, a discipline with some recognized success to its credit, and only a most dogged commitment to the doctrines of Speculum Mentis, or systems like it, could lead to denying the claim that there is historical knowledge. It seems to me that the burden of Colling-wood's reflections on history over the course of the years ...
Collingwood's theory of history is variously stated in his works, and it is not always clear whether what he has written in one place is compatible with what he has written in others.
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Sep 1, 2007 · R.G. Collingwood defined historical knowledge as essentially ‘scientific’, and saw the historian's task as the ‘re-enactment of past thoughts’. The author argues the need to go beyond Collingwood, first by demonstrating the authenticity of available evidence, and secondly, using Namier as an example, by considering methodology as well ...