Becoming Collingwood: Central Themes

Author:   Spencer Kiefer Wertz
Publisher:   University Press of America
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Pages:   248
Publication Date:   20 September 2024
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Becoming Collingwood: Central Themes


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How did Collingwood become Collingwood? It is by thinking through the nature of persons, art, play, history, archaeology, anthropology, ideas, perceptions, consciousness, logic of question and answer, realism, race, and understanding David Hume. Collingwood had skirmishes with Margaret Hattersley Bulley (on art), Jean-Antheme Brillat-Savarin (on taste; on food), George Herbert Mead (on history), and others along the way. These became chapters in this book, and you can follow along on this journey.

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Author:   Spencer Kiefer Wertz
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   Hamilton Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9780761874447


ISBN 10:   0761874445
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   20 September 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Nature of Persons Chapter 2: A Theory of Practice in Art Chapter 3: Margaret Hattersley Bulley, Understanding Art, and the Case for Examples Chapter 4: Artists as Persons Chapter 5: The Capriciousness of Play Chapter 6: A Logic of Question and Answer Chapter 7: Understanding David Hume Chapter 8: Theoretical Topics in History Chapter 9: Eating and Dining: An Anthropological Perspective Chapter 10: Food and the Association of Perceptions Chapter 11: The Evidential Value of Testimony Chapter 12: On Certainty in History Chapter 13: Conceptual Change and Incapsulation Chapter 14: Mead’s Experimental and Pragmatic Philosophy of History Chapter 15: Realism and Its Demise Chapter 16: The Nature of Consciousness Chapter 17: Racial Considerations Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author

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Professor Wertz has written an engaging, incisive, and wide-ranging book which explores both familiar and unfamiliar themes in the works of Collingwood in a broader philosophical context. It serves to illuminate the more shaded recesses of the Englishman's wider ranging interests, as well as offers new perspectives on such well-known themes in his philosophy of history, such as the logic of question and answer, and in the philosophy of art, such as the social responsibility of artists. Readers will also be intrigued by the anthropological studies which emerged most fully in his manuscript on magic, published as The Philosophy of Enchantment. It is an important contribution to Collingwood studies but will be of much wider interest to those attracted to the themes it explores. --David Boucher, Professor, Cardiff University, Executive Editor, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies


Professor Wertz has written an engaging, incisive, and wide-ranging book which explores both familiar and unfamiliar themes in the works of Collingwood in a broader philosophical context. It serves to illuminate the more shaded recesses of the Englishman’s wider ranging interests, as well as offers new perspectives on such well-known themes in his philosophy of history, such as the logic of question and answer, and in the philosophy of art, such as the social responsibility of artists. Readers will also be intrigued by the anthropological studies which emerged most fully in his manuscript on magic, published as The Philosophy of Enchantment. It is an important contribution to Collingwood studies but will be of much wider interest to those attracted to the themes it explores. -- David Boucher, Professor, Cardiff University, Executive Editor, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies


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Spencer Kiefer Wertz is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

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