Exploring the Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood
Subtitle: From History and Method to Art and Politics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781350152908
Description: "This study of Collingwood and his work covers the full range and reach of his philosophical thought. Following Collingwood's education and his Oxford career, Skagestad considers his relationship with prominent Italian philosophers Croce and De Ruggiero and the British idealists. Taking Collingwood's publications in order, he explains under what circumstances they were produced and the reception of his work by his contemporaries and by posterity. Most importantly, Skagestad reveals Collingwood's relevance today, through his concept of barbarism as a perceptive diagnosis of totalitarianism and his prescient warning of the rise populism in the 21st century"--