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In order to place early Collingwood in his century, it will be useful to bring together comparisons with other thinkers scattered throughout this study. By reviewing what Collingwood endorsed and what he rejected, we can plot more precisely where he stood amid intellectual currents of his time.
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Oswald Spengler, Der Untergang des A bendlandes: Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte, 2 vols. (Vienna and Leipzig, 1918–1922); tr. C. F. Atkinson, The Decline of the West, 2 vols. (New York, 1926).
See Spengler, Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Vol. I, Ch. 1 and Ch. 3, Sect. 1, on cosmology; Ch. 5 on religion; Ch. 3, Sect. 2, and Ch. 4 on art. The corresponding chapters in the English translation are: Chs. 2 and 5 on cosmology; Chs. 10 and 11 on religion; Chs. 6-8 on art.
Collingwood, An Autobiography, p 161. See also An Essay on Metaphysics, p. 343, where Collingwood discourses on the duty of professors “to cackle” in warning, like the geese of Rome. This unflattering simile suggests that Collingwood may not have been altogether at home in the role of self-appointed sentinel.
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Johnston, W.M. (1967). R. G. Collingwood’s Place in the History of Ideas (1900–1925). In: The Formative Years of R. G. Collingwood. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9481-5_13
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