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A Short Biography of Robin George Collingwood

Author Name:

Robin George Collingwood

Born As:

Robin George Collingwood

Other Names:

Robin George Collingwood

Born:

22 Feb 1889

Died:

9 Jan 1943




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Historian, philosopher and professor                          
Selected Works:

Religion and Philosophy - 1916
Roman Britain - 1923, ed. 2, 1932
Speculum Mentis - 1924
Outlines of a Philosophy of Art - 1925
The Archaeology of Roman Britain - 1930
An Essay on Philosophic Method - 1933, rev. ed. 2005
Roman Britain and the English Settlements - with J. N. L. Myres, 1936, second edition 1937
The Principles of Art - 1938
An Autobiography - 1939
The First Mate's Log - 1940
An Essay on Metaphysics - 1940, revised edition 1998
The New Leviathan - 1942, rev. ed. 1992.

Posthumously published works -

The Idea of Nature - 1945
The Idea of History - 1946, revised edition 1993
Essays in the Philosophy of Art - 1964
Essays in the Philosophy of History - 1965
Essays in Political Philosophy - 1989
The Principles of History and Other Writings in Philosophy of History - 2001
The Philosophy of Enchantment: Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Anthropology - 2005                          
Mother Edith Mary Isaac
Father William Gershom Collingwood, four children Dora,  Barbara, Ursula, and Robin.                          
Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Pembroke College - University of Oxford.                          
Collingwood is most famous for his book The Idea of History, a work collated from various sources soon after his death by his pupil, T. M. Knox.