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Becoming Collingwood

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