History as re-enactment : R.G. Collingwood's idea of history / William H. Dray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dray, William H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collingwood, R. G. (Robin George), 1889-1943.

Collingwood, R. G.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 347 pages)

Other Title:

History as reenactment

R.G. Collingwood's idea of history

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY""; ""1. Collingwood's Status and Reception""; ""2. The Aims of this Book""; ""3. Sources""; ""4. Collingwood on Philosophy of History""; ""5. Collingwood on the Nature and Rise of History""; ""6. Collingwood as Writer and Thinker""; ""2. RE-ENACTMENT AND UNDERSTANDING""; ""1. The Idea of Re-enactment""; ""2. A Paradigm Case""; ""3. The Inside�Outside View of Action""; ""4. Knowing What and Knowing Why""; ""5. Re-enactment as Critical""; ""6. Mis-statements of Re-enactment""; ""7. History as Knowledge of the Individual""

""3. RE-ENACTMENT AND LAWS""""1. Collingwood on Scientific Explanation""; ""2. Re-enactive Explanation and Completeness""; ""3. The Logical Connection Analysis""; ""4. Re-enactive and Scientific Explanation""; ""5. Re-enactive Explanation and Determinism""; ""6. Collingwood's Generalizations""; ""4. INTELLECT, RATIONALITY, FEELING""; ""1. The Scope of Re-enactment""; ""2. Collingwood's Supposed Intellectualism""; ""3. The Assumption of Rationality""; ""4. Perception, Appetite, Emotion""; ""5. The History of Art""; ""6. The History of Metaphysics""; ""5. THE PHYSICAL AND THE SOCIAL""

""1. Objective Conditions""""2. The Physical Background""; ""3. Physical Causes of Actions""; ""4. Social Events and Conditions""; ""5. Social Reductionism""; ""6. Social Causes and Effects""; ""7. The Corporate Mind""; ""6. THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION""; ""1. Re-enactment and Imagination""; ""2. The A Priori Imagination""; ""3. Coherence, Continuity, Necessity""; ""4. Historical Understanding as Synthesis""; ""5. Universal History""; ""7. THE IDEALITY OF HISTORY""; ""1. Historical Scepticism""; ""2. The Problem of Incompleteness""; ""3. The Problem of the Non-existent Past""

""4. Anti-constructionism in Collingwood""""5. Ambiguous Anti-constructionism""; ""6. Lapses into Constructionism""; ""7. Acquaintance and Actuality""; ""8. THE PERSPECTIVITY OF HISTORY""; ""1. Historical Relativism""; ""2. Point of View in History""; ""3. Relativity to the Present""; ""4. The History of History""; ""5. Presentism and Retrospectivity""; ""6. Retrospective Historical Understanding""; ""7. Reality and Anachronism""; ""EPILOGUE""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""

""R""""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 7, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-167978-X

0-19-824293-X

0-19-158601-3

OCLC:

922972286

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04813 hdl