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8R.G Collingwood and the Second World War: facing barbarismBloomsbury Academic. 2021.As one of the few philosophers to subject civilisation and barbarism to close analysis, Collingwood was acutely aware of the interrelationship between philosophy and history. This book combines historical, biographical and philosophical discussion in order to illuminate Collingwood's thinking and create the first in-depth analysis of Collingwood's responses to the Second World War.
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19Oakeshott's Porcupines: Oakeshott on CivilityContemporary Political Theory 6 (3): 312-329. 2007.In this paper, I examine Oakeshott's account of civility by drawing on the porcupine metaphor that Oakeshott borrows from Schopenhauer. I explain why Oakeshott thinks that civility is best understood as a moral practice, one which has a special significance for politics. I outline the conceptual differences between civility understood as a small virtue and as an attribute of the civil condition. Three major difficulties in Oakeshott's treatment are raised. The first concerns his view that 'civil…Read more
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William H. Dray, History as Re-enactment: RG Collingwood's Idea of HistoryPhilosophical Investigations 21 88-90. 1998.
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21William H. Dray, History as Re-enactment: RG Collingwood's Idea of History, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995, pp. xii+ 347 (review)Philosophical Investigations 21 (1). 1998.
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105Unravelling Foucault’s ‘different spaces’History of the Human Sciences 19 (4): 75-90. 2006.Although it is widely acknowledged that Foucault’s accounts of the concept of heterotopia remain briefly sketched and somewhat confusing, the notion has provoked many interpretations and applications across a range of disciplines. In particular, it has been coupled with different stages or processes of modernity and persistently linked to forms of resistance. This article re-examines Foucault’s concept through a close textual analysis. It contrasts heterotopia with Lefebvre’s conceptualization o…Read more
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72R.G. Collingwood: an introductionThoemmes. 1998.Why should modern philosophers read the works of R. G. Collingwood? His ideas are often thought difficult to locate in the main lines of development taken by twentieth-century philosophy. Some have read Collingwood as anticipating the later Wittgenstein, others have concentrated exclusively on the internal coherence of his thought. This work aims to introduce Collingwood to contemporary students of philosophy through direct engagement with his arguments. It is a conversation with Collingwood tha…Read more
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26Talking with yahoos: Collingwood's case for civilityBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (3). 2008.
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13The grammar of politics, Wittgenstein and political philosophyPhilosophical Investigations 28 (4). 2005.Books reviewed: Cressida J. Heyes (ed.), The Grammar of Politics, Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy, Cornell University Press, 2003, xii + 259, no price. Reviewed by Peter Johnson, University of Southampton Department of Philosophy University of Southampton Highfield Southampton UK.
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55Review of R.G. Collingwood, An Essay on Philosophical Method; the Philosophy of Enchantment, Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Anthropology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (5). 2006.
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11Review of Fred Inglis, History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
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30RG Collingwood and the Albert MemorialCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 15 (1): 7-40. 2009.The argument of this article is that the Albert Memorial acted as a catalyst for some of Collingwood's most well known ideas in the philosophy of history and aesthetics. It was not, however, the exclusive source of those ideas, and indeed they had philosophical expression elsewhere. One may view his contemplations, then, as work in progress. For example, the logic of question and answer promoted by the Memorial was also prompted by Collingwood's reading of Bacon and Descartes. This was a reflect…Read more
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19Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of RG CollingwoodContemporary Political Theory 4 (1): 92-94. 2005.