By Fred Inglis
This is the 1st biography of the final and maximum British idealist thinker, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a guy who either suggestion and lived at complete pitch. top recognized at the present time for his philosophies of heritage and paintings, Collingwood used to be additionally a historian, archaeologist, sailor, artist, and musician. A determine of large power and ambition, he took as his topic not anything lower than the full of human activity, and he lived within the similar method, looking to adventure the entire variety of human ardour. during this brilliant and rapidly paced narrative, Fred Inglis tells the dramatic tale of a notable existence, from Collingwood's satisfied Lakeland early life to his successes at Oxford, his archaeological digs as a popular authority on Roman Britain, his solo crusing adventures within the English Channel, his lengthy fight with ailment, and his occasionally turbulent romantic life.
In a way extraordinary at the present time, Collingwood tried to assemble all points of human suggestion right into a unmarried conception of useful adventure, and he wrote sweeping bills of heritage, artwork, technological know-how, politics, metaphysics, and archaeology, in addition to a extremely popular autobiography. chiefly, he devoted his existence to arguing that history--not science--is the one resource of ethical and political knowledge and self-knowledge.
Linking the highbrow and private facets of Collingwood's lifestyles, and delivering a wealthy historical past of his milieu, History Man additionally assesses Collingwood's effect on generations of students after his loss of life and the renewed popularity of his significance and curiosity today.
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This oneness of action and vision (of practice and theory) could only be achieved, in a single mind, or in a whole society, that won its emancipation, and hence secular redemption, by a knowledge of itself as wrung from its history. Such was the road to salvation. Collingwood’s life, embodying his thought, had as its guiding purpose the discovery and invention of 32 CHAPTER 1 the freedom to be won by the supercession of instrumental science and the coming-to-maturity of a shared and radically historical selfawareness.
3 The sociology of this entire and tightly closed cultural system was, how- 36 CHAPTER 2 ever, hardly “devised” to prevent searching thought or to ensure staccato minds. On the contrary, it was a system inaugurated by a clutch of convinced and compelling headmasters—Thomas Arnold first of all, at Rugby between 1828 and 1841 during which time he became nationally renowned, and, following his example, Percival at Clifton, Thring at Uppingham, Sanderson at Oundle, and from 1895 Herbert James at Rugby.
Off he goes again. Now because sympathy and its negative counterpart malice are the strings on which a biographer plays . . he must depict a definite and recognisable person, and emphasise the animal side of this person’s existence. He must remind the reader that his subject was born and died, suffered diseases and recovered from them . . desired certain women and succeeded or failed in his attempts to win them. . 34 No explanation is given for the biographical airs being confined to two strings, nor is the pleonasm acknowledged about biography’s needing to individualise its subject, as though biography could fail to do this and still be biographical.