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Rethinking R. G. Collingwood: Philosophy, Politics and the Unity of Theory and Practice

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2004
ISBN
0333998723, 9780333998724, 9780230005754
Open Library ID
OL10560455M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
622 kB (637258 bytes)
Pages
224\223
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Rethinking R.G. Collingwood reviews Collingwood's thought via his own rethinking of Hegel. It establishes the revisionary character of Collingwood's defence of liberal civilization in theory and practice. Collingwood is seen as avoiding the pitfalls of Hegel's teleological historicism by developing an open and contestable reading of the rationality of liberal civilization, which neither reduces practice to theory nor philosophy to history. The contemporary relevance of Collingwood's standpoint is demonstrated by comparing it with those of recent defenders and critics of liberalism Rawls, Lyotard and MacIntyre.

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