History as a Science: The Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood

History as a Science: The Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood
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By:"Jan van der Dussen"
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Published on 1981-10-31 by Springer Science & Business Media

THE \u003cb\u003eARCHAEOLOGY\u003c/b\u003e OF ROMAN BRITAIN (1930) Collingwood's synthesizing \u003cbr\u003e\nmind, always alive to methodological principles, was well able to deal with the \u003cbr\u003e\nmore general interpretative aspects of the \u003cb\u003escience\u003c/b\u003e of \u003cb\u003earchaeology\u003c/b\u003e. His \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eArchaeology\u003c/b\u003e ...

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1. 1. COLLINGWOOD'S RECEPTION Collingwood's scholarly reputation is a complicated and variegated affair. For one has not only to make a' distinction between his reputation during his life and after his premature death in 1943, but also between his reputation as a philosopher and as an archaeologist and historian. Collingwood himself considered philosophy as his primary occupation and his work in archaeology and history as that of an amateur. This work, however, reached the highest standards and his contributions to archaeology and history have always been appreciated accordingly. Though Collingwood's reputation as the main expert on Roman Britain in the period between the two wars remains unchallenged, modern developments in this field have inevitably superseded his contributions and made them primarily voices from a past period. Philosophy was the other half of Collingwood's scholarly life. In his own thinking there was always a close relationship between philosophy and archaeological and histor ical practice. His interpreters have not always recognized this connection. I have met archaeologists who were surprised to hear that Collingwood was a philosopher as well, who either did not know that he had been a practising and philosophers archaeologist and historian, or thought it no more than a private hobby. Collingwood's reputation as a philosopher was very different from the one he gained in archaeology and history. For in the philosophical climate at Oxford between the wars he was always an isolated figure.

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