R.G Collingwood and the Second World War

Facing Barbarism

Dr Peter Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-20301-3 (ISBN)

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R.G Collingwood’s prolific works have shaped the debate about the nature of civilisation and its status as an ideal governing art, morality and social and political existence. As one of the few philosophers to subject civilisation and barbarism to close analysis, R.G Collingwood was acutely aware of the interrelationship between philosophy and history.

In Peter Johnson’s highly original work, R.G Collingwood and the Second World War: Facing Barbarism, Johnson combines historical, biographical and philosophical discussion in order to illuminate Collingwood’s thinking and create the first in-depth analysis of R.G Collingwood’s responses to the Second World War.

Peter Johnson examines how R.G Collingwood’s responses to the war developed from his early rejection of appeasement as a policy for dealing with Hitler’s Germany, through his view of Britain’s prosecution of the war once the battle with Nazism had been joined, and finally to his picture of a future liberal society in which civility is its overriding ideal.

Peter Johnson is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK. His publications include R G Collingwood: An Introduction (1998) and Collingwood's The Ideas of History: A Reader's Guide (2013).

Chronology
Introduction

Part I: Prelude
1. Appeasement, War and the Enemy Within
2. One Cheer for Marx
3. A Philosopher at Delphi
4. Talking with Yahoos

Part II: Engagement
5. Why are We at War?
6. Fighting Back
7. The New Leviathan and the Impact of Events
8. The New Leviathan in 1940
9. Two Cheers for Vansittartism

Part III: A New Beginning
10. Civility and the Claims of Justice
II. Civility and Economic Licentiousness

Afterword

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-20301-7 / 1350203017
ISBN-13	978-1-350-20301-3 / 9781350203013
Zustand	Neuware