Peter Johnson is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK. His publications include R G Collingwood: An Introduction (1998) and Collingwood's The Ideas of History: A Reader's Guide (2013).

• ChronologyIntroductionPart I: Prelude1. Appeasement, War and the Enemy Within2. One Cheer for Marx3. A Philosopher at Delphi4. Talking with Yahoos Part II: Engagement 5. Why are We at War? 6. Fighting Back7. The New Leviathan and the Impact of Events8. The New Leviathan in 19409. Two Cheers for Vansittartism Part III: A New Beginning 10. Civility and the Claims of Justice II. Civility and Economic LicentiousnessAfterword

Deeply at odds with the clichés that reduce R. G. Collingwood's lasting legacy to elements of aesthetics, theory of presuppositions and historical re-enactment (but expertly circumscribing these contributions to Collingwood's philosophy of mind, history, anthropology and philosophical methodology), Peter Johnson aptly unfolds - from the interstices of The New Leviathan and other related writings - a political philosophy perfectly reflective of the Oxford don's lifetime credo that in a world without metaphysics (as philosophical critique of presuppositional foundations of a culture) conditions will be more favourable to the development of irrationalism.

Peter Johnson is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK. His publications include R G Collingwood: An Introduction (1998) and Collingwood's The Ideas of History: A Reader's Guide (2013).

• ChronologyIntroductionPart I: Prelude1. Appeasement, War and the Enemy Within2. One Cheer for Marx3. A Philosopher at Delphi4. Talking with Yahoos Part II: Engagement 5. Why are We at War? 6. Fighting Back7. The New Leviathan and the Impact of Events8. The New Leviathan in 19409. Two Cheers for Vansittartism Part III: A New Beginning 10. Civility and the Claims of Justice II. Civility and Economic LicentiousnessAfterword

Deeply at odds with the clichés that reduce R. G. Collingwood's lasting legacy to elements of aesthetics, theory of presuppositions and historical re-enactment (but expertly circumscribing these contributions to Collingwood's philosophy of mind, history, anthropology and philosophical methodology), Peter Johnson aptly unfolds - from the interstices of The New Leviathan and other related writings - a political philosophy perfectly reflective of the Oxford don's lifetime credo that in a world without metaphysics (as philosophical critique of presuppositional foundations of a culture) conditions will be more favourable to the development of irrationalism.

Peter Johnson is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK. His publications include R G Collingwood: An Introduction (1998) and Collingwood's The Ideas of History: A Reader's Guide (2013).

• ChronologyIntroductionPart I: Prelude1. Appeasement, War and the Enemy Within2. One Cheer for Marx3. A Philosopher at Delphi4. Talking with Yahoos Part II: Engagement 5. Why are We at War? 6. Fighting Back7. The New Leviathan and the Impact of Events8. The New Leviathan in 19409. Two Cheers for Vansittartism Part III: A New Beginning 10. Civility and the Claims of Justice II. Civility and Economic LicentiousnessAfterword

Deeply at odds with the clichés that reduce R. G. Collingwood's lasting legacy to elements of aesthetics, theory of presuppositions and historical re-enactment (but expertly circumscribing these contributions to Collingwood's philosophy of mind, history, anthropology and philosophical methodology), Peter Johnson aptly unfolds - from the interstices of The New Leviathan and other related writings - a political philosophy perfectly reflective of the Oxford don's lifetime credo that in a world without metaphysics (as philosophical critique of presuppositional foundations of a culture) conditions will be more favourable to the development of irrationalism.