On the NL (New Leviathan) Posts

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.

Collingwood, New Leviathan

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.”

  1. A personal overview of Collingwood’s New Leviathan
  2. NL I: “Body and Mind”
  3. NL II: “The Relation Between Body and Mind”
  4. On the NL (New Leviathan) Posts
  5. NL III: “Body As Mind”
  6. Freedom of will
  7. NL IV: “Feeling”
  8. NL V: “The Ambiguity of Feeling”
  9. NL VI: “Language”
  10. NL VI: “Language,” again
  11. NL VII: “Appetite”
  12. NL VIII: “Hunger and Love”
  13. Facts (NL IX, ‘Retrospect,’ first 6 paragraphs)
  14. Freedom
  15. Happiness
  16. Thales of Miletus
  17. NL IX: “Retrospect”
  18. NL X: “Passion”
  19. NL XI: “Desire”
  20. NL XII: “Happiness”
  21. NL XIII: “Choice”
  22. NL XIV: “Reason”
  23. NL XV: “Utility”
  24. NL XVI: “Right”
  25. NL XVII: “Duty”
  26. NL XVIII: Theoretical Reason
  27. Freedom to Listen
  28. Duty to Nature
  29. Feyhaman Duran
  30. NL XIX: Two Senses of the Word “Society”
  31. NL XX: Society and Community
  32. NL XXI: Society as Joint Will
  33. On Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad, Book VI
  34. NL XXII: The Family As a Mixed Community
  35. NL XXIII: The Family As a Society
  36. NL XXIV: The Body Politic, Social and Non-Social
  37. On Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad, Book IX
  38. NL XXV: The Three Laws of Politics
  39. The Tree of Life
  40. Effectiveness
  41. NL XXVI: Democracy and Aristocracy
  42. NL XXVII: Force in Politics
  43. NL XXVIII: The Forms of Political Action
  44. NL XXIX: External Politics
  45. NL XXX: War As the Breakdown of Policy
  46. NL XXXI: Classical Physics and Classical Politics
  47. NL XXXII: Society and Nature in the Classical Politics
  48. NL XXXIII: Decline of the Classical Politics
  49. NL XXXIV: What Civilization Means Generically
  50. NL XXXV: What Civilization Means Specifically
  51. NL XXXVI: The Essence of Civilization
  52. NL XXXVII: Civilization As Education
  53. NL XXXVIII: Civilization and Wealth
  54. NL XXXIX: Law and Order
  55. NL XL: Peace and Plenty
  56. NL XLI: What Barbarism Is
  57. NL XLII: The First Barbarism: The Saracens
  58. NL XLIII: The Second Barbarism: The ‘Albigensian Heresy’
  59. Antitheses
  60. NL XLIV: The Turks
  61. NL XLV: The Germans
  62. Piety
  63. NL I: “Body and Mind” Again
  64. Anthropology of Mathematics
  65. Articles on Collingwood
  66. Pacifism
  67. Abraham and Gideon
  68. To Be Civilized
  69. Imagination
  70. 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="70"

within square brackets in the underlying html file. (If and when I write more than 70 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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