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The New Leviathan. Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism.
R. G. Collingwood
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Description for The New Leviathan. Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism.
paperback. This text argues that traditional social contract theory does not account for the continuing existence of the non-social community and its relation to the social community in the body politic. It aims to establish links between the levels of consciousness, society, civilization, and barbarism. Num Pages: 584 pages, index. BIC Classification: HBA; HPCF; HPQ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 708.
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 occasioned by the Second World War and the threat which Nazism and Fascism constituted to civlization. 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 ... Read more
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 occasioned by the Second World War and the threat which Nazism and Fascism constituted to civlization. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198238805
SKU
V9780198238805
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About R. G. Collingwood
R. G. Collingwood was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy in the University of Oxford from 1935 to 1941.
Reviews for The New Leviathan. Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism.
`R.G. Collingwood's late and relatively neglected work of political philosophy, The New Leviathan, published in 1942 a few months before his death, is now reissued with an introduction by David Boucher and the addition of two related lectures from 1940, "Goodness, Rightness, Utility" and "What Civilization Means".'
Times Literary Supplement
`a strange and fascinating book ... The publication ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
`a strange and fascinating book ... The publication ... Read more