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R.G Collingwood and the Second World War
Facing Barbarism
R.G Collingwood and the Second World War
Facing Barbarism
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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.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350162952 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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