The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collingwood, Robin George, Author.

Contributor:

Boucher, David, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.

Hobbes, Thomas.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (589 pages)

Edition:

New Edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Oxford University Press Incorporated 1999

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The New Leviathan, originally published in 1942, a few months before the author's death, is the book which R. G. Collingwood chose to write in preference to completing his life's work on the philosophy of history. It was occasioned by the Second World War and the threat which Nazism and Fascism constituted to civilization. The book draws upon many years of work in moral and political philosophy and attempts to establish the multiple and complex connections between the levels of consciousness, society, civilization, and barbarism. Collingwood argues that traditional social contract theory has failed to account for the continuing existence of the non-social community and its relation to the social community in the body politic. He is also critical of the tendency within ethics to confound right and duty. The publication of 120 pages of additional manuscript material in this revised edition demonstrates in more detail how Collingwood was determined to show that right and duty occupy different levels of rational practical consciousness. The additional writings also contain Collingwood's unequivocal rejection of relativism.; David Boucher's introduction shows that The New Leviathan and The Idea of History are integrally related and that neither can be properly understood independently of the other. He is also concerned to show how many of Collingwood's ideas have a contemporary relevance, and that his ideas on barbarism are not so unusual as they might at first appear.

Contents:

Abbreviations

Editor's Introduction

Preface to the First Edition

The New Leviathan

PART I. MAN

Body and Mind

1 (7)

The Relation between Body and Mind

8 (6)

Body as Mind

14 (4)

Feeling

18 (9)

The Ambiguity of Feeling

27 (13)

Language

40 (7)

Appetite

47 (7)

Hunger and Love

54 (7)

Retrospect

61 (6)

Passion

67 (7)

Desire

74 (9)

Happiness

83 (7)

Choice

90 (9)

Reason

99 (5)

Utility

104 (7)

Right

111 (8)

Duty

119 (6)

Theoretical Reason

125 (5)

PART II. SOCIETY

Two Senses of the Word `Society'

130 (8)

Society and Community

138 (10)

Society as Joint Will

148 (12)

The Family as a Mixed Community

160 (5)

The Family as a Society

165 (12)

The Body Politic, Social and Non-Social

177 (7)

The Three Laws of Politics

184 (8)

Democracy and Aristocracy

192 (11)

Force in Politics

203 (9)

The Forms of Political Action

212 (13)

Eternal Politics

225 (8)

War as the Breakdown of Policy

233 (13)

Classical Physics and Classical Politics

246 (11)

Society and Nature in the Classical Politics

257 (11)

Decline of the Classical Politics

268 (12)

PART III. CIVILIZATION

What `Civilization' Means: Generically

280 (9)

What `Civilization' Means: Specifically

289 (10)

The Essence of Civilization

299 (9)

Civilization as Education

308 (10)

Civilization and Wealth

318 (8)

Law and Order

326 (7)

Peace and Plenty

333 (9)

PART IV. BARBARISM

What Barbarism Is

342 (9)

The First Barbarism: The Saracens

351 (8)

The Second Barbarism: The `Albigensian Heresy'

359 (7)

The Third Barbarism: The Turks

366 (9)

The Fourth Barbarism: The Germans

375 (16)

Appendix 1. Goodness, Rightness, Utility 391 (89)

Appendix 2. What `Civilization' Means 480 (33)

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

1-280-80908-6

9786610809080

OCLC:

1027165717