History as Re-Enactment: R. G. Collingwood's Idea of History

William H Dray

ISBN 10: 0198238819 / ISBN 13: 9780198238812

Published by Oxford University Press, 2007

About this Item

5.5 x 8.5 inches. 347 pages. Spine very lightly creased. Near fine/fine condition. Contents: History & Philosophy, Re-enactment & Understanding, Re-enactment & Laws, Intellect/Rationality/Feeling,The Physical & the Social, The Historical Imagination, The Ideality of History, The Perspectivity of History.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History as Re-Enactment: R. G. Collingwood's Idea of History
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198238819
• ISBN 13: 9780198238812
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

William H. Dray has been Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada.