Added May 7, 2019. My project to read and write a blog post about each of the 45 chapters of Collingwood’s New Leviathan (1942) began in January, 2014. A month and five years later, in February, 2019, the project was complete, in the sense that I had indeed written an article about each chapter of the book. Now I can go back to reread the earlier chapters, and revise the earlier articles, knowing better where they lead. ¶ Near the beginning, I wrote this post as an explanation of the project and an index to its articles. The passing of time and my reading of the book has changed my understanding of the project. From a way to satisfy intellectual curiosity, the project has become a response to threats as serious as the war of conquest by Germany to which Collingwood was responding.
I have been engaged in reading, and writing notes on, R. G. Collingwood, The New Leviathan (1942; revised edition 1992). The following is a list of the articles that comprise those notes so far, along with other articles to which I have assigned the category “New Leviathan.”
- A personal overview of Collingwood’s New Leviathan
- NL I: “Body and Mind”
- NL II: “The Relation Between Body and Mind”
- On the NL (New Leviathan) Posts
- NL III: “Body As Mind”
- Freedom of will
- NL IV: “Feeling”
- NL V: “The Ambiguity of Feeling”
- NL VI: “Language”
- NL VI: “Language,” again
- NL VII: “Appetite”
- NL VIII: “Hunger and Love”
- Facts (NL IX, ‘Retrospect,’ first 6 paragraphs)
- Freedom
- Happiness
- Thales of Miletus
- NL IX: “Retrospect”
- NL X: “Passion”
- NL XI: “Desire”
- NL XII: “Happiness”
- NL XIII: “Choice”
- NL XIV: “Reason”
- NL XV: “Utility”
- NL XVI: “Right”
- NL XVII: “Duty”
- NL XVIII: Theoretical Reason
- Freedom to Listen
- Duty to Nature
- Feyhaman Duran
- NL XIX: Two Senses of the Word “Society”
- NL XX: Society and Community
- NL XXI: Society as Joint Will
- On Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad, Book VI
- NL XXII: The Family As a Mixed Community
- NL XXIII: The Family As a Society
- NL XXIV: The Body Politic, Social and Non-Social
- On Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad, Book IX
- NL XXV: The Three Laws of Politics
- The Tree of Life
- Effectiveness
- NL XXVI: Democracy and Aristocracy
- NL XXVII: Force in Politics
- NL XXVIII: The Forms of Political Action
- NL XXIX: External Politics
- NL XXX: War As the Breakdown of Policy
- NL XXXI: Classical Physics and Classical Politics
- NL XXXII: Society and Nature in the Classical Politics
- NL XXXIII: Decline of the Classical Politics
- NL XXXIV: What Civilization Means Generically
- NL XXXV: What Civilization Means Specifically
- NL XXXVI: The Essence of Civilization
- NL XXXVII: Civilization As Education
- NL XXXVIII: Civilization and Wealth
- NL XXXIX: Law and Order
- NL XL: Peace and Plenty
- NL XLI: What Barbarism Is
- NL XLII: The First Barbarism: The Saracens
- NL XLIII: The Second Barbarism: The ‘Albigensian Heresy’
- Antitheses
- NL XLIV: The Turks
- NL XLV: The Germans
- Piety
- NL I: “Body and Mind” Again
- Anthropology of Mathematics
- Articles on Collingwood
- Pacifism
- Abraham and Gideon
- To Be Civilized
- Imagination
- Emotional Contagion (Iliad VIII)
The list is made automatically by means of “shortcodes,” described in a blog article and in more detail on a support page. I am using in particular the code
display-posts category="New Leviathan" order="ASC" wrapper="ol" posts_per_page="80"
within square brackets in the underlying html file. (If and when I write more than 80 of these articles, I shall have to make an adjustment here.) These articles contain many quotations from The New Leviathan itself and other books by Collingwood, and a few from books by other writers. I attempt to make my articles locally readable, although there is no predetermined global structure to an article. Reasons to read Collingwood are suggested in the articles themselves. I try to note the connections that I see to other books by Collingwood and to other chapters in The New Leviathan. I note the questions that are suggested to me. In the process, I think I come to some understandings that I did not have before I started writing: this is the purpose of writing in the first place.
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