书名：The Idea of History 历史观念

作者：R. G. Collingwood

出版社名称：Oxford University Press

出版时间：1994

语种：英语

ISBN：9780192853066

商品尺寸：20 x 12.4 x 4 cm

包装：平装

《历史的观念》被誉为20世纪最有影响力的历史哲学著作之一。此书为柯林武德遗作，最初于1946年由诺克斯编辑成书，极受学界关注。这部理论性的学术著作，之所以能够成为畅销书，几十年来一直受到读者重视，原因大概有这么几点：一，它要言不烦地梳理了西方人的历史观念的演变，从古希腊到现代，各阶段的特征一目了然；二，作者兼有历史学和哲学两方面的思维训练，所论问题切中历史学的核心，不给人隔膜之感；三，作者思路明晰，语言简练，将深刻的哲学思想用平白晓畅的语言娓娓道来。

The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood.

Published posthumously in 1946, it examines how the idea of history has evolved from the time of Herodotus to the twentieth century, and offers Collingwood's own view of what history is. This revised edition has a substantial new introduction which discusses how scholars have responded to Collingwood's classic over the last fifty years. It also makes available for the first time some of Collingwood's lectures on the philosophy of history - essential for a fuller understanding of his thought, and in particular for the interpretation of The Idea of History itself.

R.G.科林伍德（Robin George Collingwood，1889-1943），英国哲学家，历史学家和美学家，毕业于牛津大学哲学系，后留校研究和任教。主要著作有《宗教与哲学》（1916）、《心灵的思辨》（1924）、《艺术原理》（1938）、《历史的观念》（1936）。表现主义美学的主要代表之一，认为只有表现情感的艺术才是：“真正的艺术”，而任何再现艺术都是名不副实的艺术都是“伪艺术”。从而否定了艺术认识生活的基本功能。著有《艺术原理》，在书中片面强调艺术的表现特征而根本否认艺术的再现特征，即否认艺术的基本职能是反映和说明显示社会生活，并把再现艺术的美学理论斥之为所谓技巧论，他背离了西方古典美学的优秀传统，抛弃了“艺术模仿自然”中的合理内核，突出的体现了他的唯心主义哲学思想。

The late R. G. Collingwood was Wayflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy in the University of Oxford from 1935 to 1941. Four of his books are available in paperback from Oxford University Press: The Principles of Art, The Idea of History, The Idea of Nature, and An Autobiography. In 1989 the Press published his Essays in Political Philosophy, and in 1992 a revised edition of the last work published in his lifetime, The New Leviathan, accompanied by new material from his manuscripts; both of these books are edited by David Boucher. Jan van der Dussen is Professor of History and Philosophy in the department of Humanities at the Open University of the Netherlands. His previous publications include History as a Science: The Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood (Martinus Hijhoff, 1981).