The New Leviathan, originally published in 1942, a few months before the author's death, is the book which R. G. Collingwood chose to write in preference to completing his life's work on the philosophy of history. It was a reaction to the Second World War and the threat which Nazism and Fascism constituted to civilization. The book draws upon many years of work in moral and political philosophy and attempts to establish the multiple and complex connections between the levels of consciousness, society, civilization, and barbarism. Collingwood argues that traditional social contract theory has failed to account for the continuing existence of the non-social community and its relation to the social community in the body politic. He is also critical of the tendency within ethics to confound right and duty. The publication of additional manuscript material in this revised edition demonstrates in more detail how Collingwood was determined to show that right and duty occupy different levels of rational practical consciousness. The additional material also contains Collingwood's unequivocal rejection of relativism. David Boucher's introduction shows that The New Leviathan and The Idea of History are integrally related and that neither can be properly understood independently of the other. He is also concerned to show how many of Collingwood's ideas have a contemporary relevance, and that his ideas on barbarism are not so unusual as they might at first appear.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780198239819
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95769358
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
R. G. Collingwood
Publication Name
The New Leviathan: or Man, Society, Civilization, and Barbarism
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
586 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
223mm
Item Width
145mm
Item Weight
732g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
R. G. Collingwood
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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