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Title: The Idea of History by Jan Van Der Dussen, R. G. Collingwood ISBN: 0-19-285306-6 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Edition of Collingwood's Art.
Comment: This is a very fine edition of Collingwood's magnum opus The Idea of History. It also includes two earlier papers on the philosophy of history, etc. Any student or scholar who studies the discipline of history will need this book, and should read it closely. Van Der Dussen's introductory essay is also very good. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: R. G. Collingwood's Most Famous Book
Comment: Highly Recommended.
This book is one of the best books ever written on the Nature and Aims of History. This along with his "Principles of History" should give most readers all they need to know about the how and why of history.
The book is extremely easy to read; harder to understand. Some criticisms of the book are not up to the mark, as for example complaints that Collingwood used Greek and Latin phrases in the book, and not everyone understands them. Most of the Greek and Latin are very easy to understand, any good comprehensive foreign phrase dictionary will readily yield them. In fact everyone at the Oxford of Collingwood's day, and nearly everyone who considered themselves a philosopher at that time, could read Latin, and most of them Greek. Don't complain because Kant wrote in German (and Latin and Greek), and that Collingwood writes British English (and Latin and Greek). His style is beautiful, the thoughts expressed profound.
One does not get Collingwood's complete philosophy in this book, and indeed, parts of it cannot be understood without reading his other works. I think particularly of his famous doctrine of "re-enactment" of past thought, which is best understood in the light of the chapters on language presented in his "Principles of Art" (Oxford, 1938). Much invalid criticism has been written by those who have assumed this meant some kind of mental telepathy or intuition.
This book, and everything Collingwood has written, will amply repay the thinking reader. He may, in fact, soon find himself armed with new philosophical ideas with which to think about the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: A magnificent book if you're motivated enough
Comment: R. G. Collingwood's The Idea of History would be more correctly classified as a work of philosophy than a work of history, as the primary goal of the work is to present Collingwood's philosophical conception of the nature of history. In terms of methodology, Collingwood's book can be divided into two main sections.
Parts I-IV are more historical as Collingwood traces the development of the practice of history. It begins with its Greco-Roman roots, examines the influence of Christianity, and moves on toward the development of modern scientific history, and finally finishes by examining the concept of history up to the then-present day. Throughout this first portion Collingwood does not directly present his philosophy, leaving it to the reader to infer it from his critiques of other historians. Part V is where Collingwood finally lays out his entire philosophy of history, fully elaborating what he only partially revealed in parts I-IV.
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Title: Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, & Modern by Ernst Breisach ISBN: 0226072789 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Principles of History: And Other Writings in Philosophy of History by R. G. Collingwood, W. H. Dray, W. J. Van Der Dussen, R. G. Collinwood ISBN: 0199243158 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism by R. G. Collingwood, David Boucher ISBN: 0198238800 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: How to Study History by Norman F. Cantor ISBN: 0882957090 Publisher: Harlan Davidson Pub. Date: December, 1979 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Writer's Guide: History by Henry Steffens, Mary Dickerson, Toby Fulwiler, Arthur Biddle ISBN: 0669120022 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $32.36 |
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