R. G. Collingwood

R. G. Collingwood
FBA
R. G. Collingwood FBA
Born	Robin George Collingwood; 22 February 1889; Gillhead, Cartmel Fell, Lancashire (now Cumbria), England
Died	9 January 1943 (aged 53); Coniston, Lancashire, England
Education
Alma mater	University College, Oxford
Philosophical work
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	British idealism; Historism
Institutions	Pembroke College, Oxford
Main interests	Metaphysics; Philosophy of history; Aesthetics
Notable works	The Principles of Art (1938); The Idea of History (1946)
Notable ideas	Historical imagination; Coining the English term historicism; Aesthetic expressivism

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Robin George Collingwood FBA (/ˈkɒlɪŋwʊd/; 22 February 1889 – 9 January 1943) was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist. He is best known for his philosophical works, including The Principles of Art (1938) and the posthumously published The Idea of History (1946).

^ ^a ^b Collingwood himself used the term historicism, a term that he apparently coined, to describe his approach (for example, in his lecture "Ruskin's Philosophy" lecture, delivered to the Ruskin Centenary Conference Exhibition, Coniston, Cumbria (see Jan van der Dussen, History as a Science: The Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood, Springer, 2012, p. 49)), but some later historiographers describe him as a proponent of "historism" in accordance with the current English meaning of the term (F. R. Ankersmit, Sublime Historical Experience, Stanford University Press, 2005, p. 404).
^ David Naugle, "R. G. Collingwood and the Hermeneutic Tradition", 1993.
^ A translation of the German Historismus first coined by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (see Brian Leiter, Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 175: "[The word 'historicism'] appears as early as the late eighteenth century in the writings of the German romantics, who used it in a neutral sense. In 1797 Friedrich Schlegel used 'historicism' to refer to a philosophy that stresses the importance of history ...").

[vdD-1] Collingwood himself used the term historicism, a term that he apparently coined, to describe his approach (for example, in his lecture "Ruskin's Philosophy" lecture, delivered to the Ruskin Centenary Conference Exhibition, Coniston, Cumbria (see Jan van der Dussen, History as a Science: The Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood, Springer, 2012, p. 49)), but some later historiographers describe him as a proponent of "historism" in accordance with the current English meaning of the term (F. R. Ankersmit, Sublime Historical Experience, Stanford University Press, 2005, p. 404).

[2] David Naugle, "R. G. Collingwood and the Hermeneutic Tradition", 1993.

[3] A translation of the German Historismus first coined by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (see Brian Leiter, Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 175: "[The word 'historicism'] appears as early as the late eighteenth century in the writings of the German romantics, who used it in a neutral sense. In 1797 Friedrich Schlegel used 'historicism' to refer to a philosophy that stresses the importance of history ...").

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R. G. Collingwood FBA

Born	Robin George Collingwood 22 February 1889 Gillhead, Cartmel Fell, Lancashire (now Cumbria), England
Died	9 January 1943(1943-01-09) (aged 53) Coniston, Lancashire, England

Education
Alma mater	University College, Oxford
Philosophical work
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	British idealism Historism^[1]
Institutions	Pembroke College, Oxford
Main interests	Metaphysics Philosophy of history Aesthetics
Notable works	The Principles of Art (1938) The Idea of History (1946)
Notable ideas	Historical imagination Coining the English term historicism^[1]^[3] Aesthetic expressivism