Bristol Introductions: R. G. Collingwood : An Introduction (Paperback)

Why should modern philosophers read the works of R. G. Collingwood? His ideas are often thought difficult to locate in the main lines of development taken by twentieth-century philosophy. Some have read Collingwood as anticipating the later Wittgenstein; others have concentrated exclusively on the internal coherence of his thought. This work aims to introduce Collingwood to contemporary students of philosophy through direct engagement with his arguments. It is a conversation with Collingwood that takes as its subject matter the topics that interested him -- philosophy and method, the historical imagination, art and expression, action, metaphysics and life -- and which still preoccupy us today.