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History as re-enactment : R.G. Collingwood's idea of history
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History as re-enactment : R.G. Collingwood's idea of history

Author: William H Dray
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A central motif of R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history is the idea that historical understanding requires a re-enactment of past experience. This text analyzes that idea; explores the limits of  Read more...

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Named Person: R G Collingwood; Robin G Collingwood; R G Collingwood
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William H Dray
ISBN: 0198238819 9780198238812 019824293X 9780198242932
OCLC Number: 43220879
Description: xii, 347 p ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. History and Philosophy; 2. Re-enactment and Understanding; 3. Re-enactment and Laws; 4. Intellect, Rationality, Feeling; 5. The Physical and the Social; 6. The Historical Imagination; 7. The Ideality of History; 8. The Perspectivity of History; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Responsibility: William H. Dray.

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