The Idea of History
2nd Edition
Published on 1. June 1993
Book
Hardback
563 pages
978-0-19-823957-4 (ISBN)
Description
"The Idea of History" was originally published posthumously in 1946, having been reconstructed from the late R.G. Collingwood's manuscripts, many of which were subsequently destroyed. In this revised edition, Collingwood's lectures on the philosophy of history are published; the texts have been prepared by Jan van der Dussen from manuscripts that have only recently become available. These lectures contain Collingwood's first comprehensive statement of his philosophy of history; they are important for an understanding of his thought and for a correct interpretation of "The Idea of History" itself. An introduction is included which explains the background to this new edition and surveys the scholarship of the last 50 years.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
index
ISBN-13
978-0-19-823957-4 (9780198239574)
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Content
Part 1 Introduction: the philosophy of history; history's nature, object, method and value; the problem of parts 1-4. Part 2 Greco-Roman historiography: theocratic history and myth; the creation of scientific history by Herodotus; anti-historical tendency of Greek thought; Greek conception of history's nature and value; Greek historical method and its limitations; Herodotus and Thucydides; the Hellenistic period; Polybius; Livy and Tacitus; character of Greco-Roman historiography - humanism, substantialism. Part 3 The influence of Christianity: the leaven of Christian ideas; characteristics of Christian historiography; Medieval historiography; the Renaissance historians; Descartes; Cartesian historiography; anti-Cartesianism - Vico, Locke, Berkeley and Hume; the Enlightenment; the science of human nature. Part 4 The threshold of scientific history: romanticism; Herder; Kant; Schiller; Fichte; Schelling; Hegel; Hegel and Marx; positivism. Part 5 Scientific history: England - Bradley, Bradley's successors, late-19th-century historiography, Bury, Oakeshott, Toynbee; Germany - Windelband, Rickert, Simmel, Dilthey, Meyer, Spengler; France - Ravaisson's spirtitualism, Lachelier's idealism, Bergson's evolutionism, modern French historiography; Italy - Croce's essay of 1893, Croce's second position - the "Logic", history and philosophy, history and nature, Croce's final position - the autonomy of history. Part 6: Sepilegomena: human nature and human history (1936); the historical imagination 1935; historical evidence (1939); history as re-enactment of past experience (1936); the subject matter of history (1936); history and freedom - (1939); progress as created by historical thinking - (1936).