Exploring The Philosophy Of R G Collingwood From History And Method To Art And Politics Peter Skagestad by Peter Skagestad 9781350152908, 9781350152939, 1350152900, 1350152935 instant download after payment.

Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. His work spanned the whole range of philosophical subjects, influencing theory of knowledge, metaphysics, philosophy of art, philosophy of history, and social and political philosophy. For the first time the full range and reach of Collingwood's philosophical thought is covered by Peter Skagestad in this study of Collingwood and his work.
Following Collingwood’s education and his Oxford career in philosophy, history, and archaeology, Skagestad considers his relationship with prominent Italian philosophers Croce and De Ruggiero and the British idealists. Taking Collingwood’s publication in order he explains under what circumstances they were produced and the reception of his work, by his contemporaries and by posterity, from Religion and Philosophy (1916) and Speculum Mentis (1923) to posthumously published The Idea of History (1946).
Featuring coverage of Collingwood’s early philosophy of art as imagination and his mature philosophy of art as the expression of the emotions of the community, Skagestad also considers his argument, in response to A.J. Ayer, that metaphysics is the historical study of absolute presuppositions. Most importantly, Skagestad reveals how relevant Collingwood is today, through his concept of barbarism as a perceptive diagnosis of totalitarianism and his prescient warning of the rise populism in the 21st century.