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R. G. Collingwood | |
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| Born | Robin George Collingwood 22 February 1889 |
| Died | 9 January 1943 (aged 53) Coniston, Lancashire, England |
| Alma mater | University College, Oxford |
| Notable work | The Principles of Art (1938) The Idea of History (1946) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | British idealism Historism[1] |
| Institutions | Pembroke College, Oxford |
Main interests | Metaphysics Philosophy of history Aesthetics |
Notable ideas | Historical imagination Coining the English term historicism[1][2] Aesthetic expressivism |
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Robin George Collingwood FBA (/ˈkɒlɪŋwʊd/; 22 February 1889 – 9 January 1943) was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist. He is best known for his philosophical works, including The Principles of Art (1938) and the posthumously published The Idea of History (1946).
- ^ a b Collingwood himself used the term historicism, a term that he apparently coined, to describe his approach (for example, in his lecture "Ruskin's Philosophy" lecture, delivered to the Ruskin Centenary Conference Exhibition, Coniston, Cumbria (see Jan van der Dussen, History as a Science: The Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood, Springer, 2012, p. 49)), but some later historiographers describe him as a proponent of "historism" in accordance with the current English meaning of the term (F. R. Ankersmit, Sublime Historical Experience, Stanford University Press, 2005, p. 404).
- ^ A translation of the German Historismus first coined by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (see Brian Leiter, Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 175: "[The word 'historicism'] appears as early as the late eighteenth century in the writings of the German romantics, who used it in a neutral sense. In 1797 Friedrich Schlegel used 'historicism' to refer to a philosophy that stresses the importance of history ...").
- ^ David Naugle, "R. G. Collingwood and the Hermeneutic Tradition", 1993.