The Concept of History: Excerpt

Author: (British) R.G. Collingwood
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book is the representative work of the British philosopher R.G. Collingwood. The entire book can be divided into two parts:
1. The history of philosophical thought from Greece and Rome to the 20th century (to Volume IV);
2. The author's own philosophy of history (Introduction and Volume V). In the book, the author criticizes the historical trend of positivism and strives to connect history with philosophy. Through his review of the history of Western philosophy of history, he proposes the famous thesis that "all history is the history of thought."