Dr Christopher Fear C.Fear@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
R. G. Collingwood's New Leviathan (1942) presents an account of two ‘dialectical’ political processes that are ongoing in any body politic. Existing scholarship has already covered the first: a dialectic between a ‘social’ and a ‘non-social’ element, which Collingwood identifies in Hobbes. This essay elucidates a second: a dialectic between Liberals and Conservatives, which regulates the ‘percolation’ of liberty and the rate of recruitment into what Collingwood calls ‘the ruling class’. The details of this second dialectic are to be found not in Hobbes, but in the work of Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca, yet Collingwood's connections to these fathers of ‘classical elite theory’ have not previously been discussed.
Fear, C. (2019). Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory. History of European ideas, 45(7), 1029-1044. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2019.1628582
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 23, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 17, 2019 |
Publication Date | Oct 3, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Jun 19, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 18, 2020 |
Journal | History of European Ideas |
Print ISSN | 0191-6599 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 45 |
Issue | 7 |
Pages | 1029-1044 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2019.1628582 |
Keywords | R. G. Collingwood; Gaetano Mosca; Vilfredo Pareto; Elites; Ruling class; Aristocracy |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/2012823 |
Publisher URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916599.2019.1628582 |
Contract Date | Jun 19, 2019 |
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