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

Browning, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333998723 ISBN 13: 9780333998724

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

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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About the Author

GARY K. BROWNING is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University. His previous monographs are Plato and Hegel: Two Modes of Philosophising about Politics (1991), Hegel and the History of Political Philosophy (1999) and Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives (2000). He has co-written Politics: An Introduction (1997 and 2002) and co-edited Understanding Contemporary Society - Theories of the Present (2000) as well as editing Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reappraisal (1997). He is currently General Editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory, which is published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333998723
• ISBN 13: 9780333998724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220