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Author Johnson, Peter, 1943-

Title A philosopher and appeasement : R.G. Collingwood and the Second World War / Peter Johnson
Published Luton : Andrews UK, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages)
Series A Philosopher at War ; v. 2
Philosopher at War
Contents Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Epigraph; Body matter; Introduction; 1. Fighting Unawares; 2. A Political Education; 3. The Tiger in the Grass; 4. What Is to Be Done?; 5. Spain; 6. Munich; 7. Duplicity of State; 8. Civility, Peace and War; Afterword; Back matter; Bibliography; Also available
Summary This book is volume one of a two-part series. Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty Intelligence during the First World War and although he was not physically robust enough to play an active role in the Second World War, he was swift to condemn the policies of appeasement which he thought largely res ..
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Subject Collingwood, R. G. (Robin George), 1889-1943.
SUBJECT Collingwood, R. G. (Robin George), 1889-1943 fast
Subject Liberalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Ethics
Liberalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781845406653
1845406656