History As Re-enactment R. G. Collingwood's Idea of History

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ISBN: 9780198238812 | 0198238819
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Copyright: 4/29/1999

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This book explains and defends a central ideas in the theory of history put forward by R. G. Collingwood, perhaps the foremost philosopher of history in the 20th century. Professor Dray analyses critically the idea of re-enactment, explores the limits of its applicability, and determines its relationship to other key Collingwoodian ideas, such as the role of imagination in historical thinking, and the indispensability of a point of view.

Abbreviations	p. xi
History and Philosophy	p. 1
Collingwood's Status and Reception	p. 1
The Aims of this Book	p. 5
Sources	p. 10
Collingwood on Philosophy of History	p. 16
Collingwood on the Nature and Rise of History	p. 21
Collingwood as Writer and Thinker	p. 27
Re-Enactment and Understanding	p. 32
The Idea of Re-enactment	p. 32
A Paradigm Case	p. 34
The Inside--Outside View of Action	p. 38
Knowing What and Knowing Why	p. 44
Re-enactment as Critical	p. 52
Mis-statements of Re-enactment	p. 57
History as Knowledge of the Individual	p. 60
Re-Enactment and Laws	p. 67
Collingwood on Scientific Explanation	p. 67
Re-enactive Explantion and Completeness	p. 72
The Logical Connection Analysis	p. 80
Re-enactive and Scientific Explanation	p. 87
Re-enactive Explanation and Determinism	p. 92
Collingwood's Generalizations	p. 99
Intellect, Rationality, Feeling	p. 108
The Scope of Re-enactment	p. 108
Collingwood's Supposed Intellectualism	p. 109
The Assumption of Rationality	p. 115
Perception, Appetite, Emotion	p. 123
The History of Art	p. 132
The History of Metaphysics	p. 140
The Physical and the Social	p. 150
Objective Conditions	p. 150
The Physical Background	p. 151
Physical Causes of Actions	p. 157
Social Events and Conditions	p. 164
Social Reductionism	p. 171
Social Causes and Effects	p. 177
The Corporate Mind	p. 184
The Historical Imagination	p. 191
Re-enactment and Imagination	p. 191
The A Priori Imagination	p. 193
Coherence, Continuity, Necessity	p. 200
Historical Understanding as Synthesis	p. 211
Universal History	p. 221
The Ideality of History	p. 229
Historical Scepticism	p. 229
The Problem of Incompleteness	p. 233
The Problem of the Non-existent Past	p. 239
Anti-constructionism in Collingwood	p. 243
Ambiguous Anti-constructionism	p. 249
Lapses into Constructionism	p. 257
Acquaintance and Actuality	p. 263
The Perspectivity of History	p. 271
Historical Relativism	p. 271
Point of View in History	p. 274
Relativity to the Present	p. 283
The History of History	p. 291
Presentism and Retrospectivity	p. 297
Retrospective Historical Understanding	p. 307
Reality and Anachronism	p. 315
Epilogue	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 328
Index	p. 337
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