Speculum Mentis - Reunion in a Complete and Undivided Life
(2025)
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Fear, C. (in press). Speculum Mentis - Reunion in a Complete and Undivided Life. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 30(1), 5-12
Dr Christopher Fear's Outputs (13)
“Sophists in academic dress: Oakeshott’s ‘The study of “politics” in a university’” (2022)
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Fear, C. (2022). “Sophists in academic dress: Oakeshott’s ‘The study of “politics” in a university’”. Cosmos+Taxis, 10(7-8), 62-71What sort of activity should Politics academics aim to inculcate in their students? Only truth-seeking, logical thinking, and the ability to scrutinize evidence for themselves? Or also the will and ability to perform supposedly beneficial extra-acade... Read More about “Sophists in academic dress: Oakeshott’s ‘The study of “politics” in a university’”.
The ‘dialectical’ theory of conservatism (2020)
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Fear, C. (2020). The ‘dialectical’ theory of conservatism. Journal of political ideologies, 25(2), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2020.1750760Recently, James Alexander has proposed a ‘dialectical definition’ of conservatism which, he believes, goes beyond ‘dispositional’ definitions, such as those proposed by Brennan and Hamlin, and by Martin Beckstein, which are ‘incomplete’.1 Alexander a... Read More about The ‘dialectical’ theory of conservatism.
R. G. Collingwood's overlapping ideas of history (2020)
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Fear, C. (2021). R. G. Collingwood's overlapping ideas of history. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341437Does R. G. Collingwood's theory that concepts in philosophy are organized as “scales of forms” apply to his own work on the nature of history? Or is there some inconsistency between Collingwood's work as a philosopher of history and as a theorist of... Read More about R. G. Collingwood's overlapping ideas of history.
Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory (2019)
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Fear, C. (2019). Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory. History of European ideas, 45(7), 1029-1044. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2019.1628582R. 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,... Read More about Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory.
Book review : William E. Connolly: Facing the planetary: entangled humanism and the politics of swarming. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 232.) (2018)
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Fear, C. (2019). Book review : William E. Connolly: Facing the planetary: entangled humanism and the politics of swarming. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 232.). Review of Politics, 81(1), 165-168. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670518000888
Book review : A history of modern political thought: the question of interpretation (2018)
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Fear, C. (2019). Book review : A history of modern political thought: the question of interpretation. Contemporary Political Theory, 18(Supp 1), 20-23. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0197-4
"Was he right?" R. G. Collingwood's rapprochement between philosophy and history (2017)
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Fear, C. (2017). "Was he right?" R. G. Collingwood's rapprochement between philosophy and history. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 11(3), 408-424. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341382© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2017. R. G. Collingwood's declaration that belief in "eternal questions" in philosophy is "merely a vulgar error, consequent on a kind of historical myopia which, deceived by superficial resemblances, failed to detect... Read More about "Was he right?" R. G. Collingwood's rapprochement between philosophy and history.
William E. Connolly's politics of complexity: a critique (2017)
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Fear, C. (2017). William E. Connolly's politics of complexity: a critique. Review of Politics, 79(1), 73-98. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670516000735Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2017. In recent years, William E. Connolly has argued that the phenomenon of complexity in the physical sciences carries radical implications for political theory: namely, that political theorists should now be re... Read More about William E. Connolly's politics of complexity: a critique.
To absent enemies: Wyndham Lewis in contemporary political theory (2015)
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Fear, C. (2015). To absent enemies: Wyndham Lewis in contemporary political theory. Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies, 6, 83-107
Book review : R. G. Collingwood, an autobiography and other writings: with essays on Collingwood’s life and work, ed. David Boucher and Teresa Smith. (2015)
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Fear, C. (2015). Book review : R. G. Collingwood, an autobiography and other writings: with essays on Collingwood’s life and work, ed. David Boucher and Teresa Smith. History of political thought, 36(4), 801-804
Book review : History as thought and action. The philosophies of Croce, Gentile, de Ruggiero and Collingwood (2014)
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Fear, C. (2014). Book review : History as thought and action. The philosophies of Croce, Gentile, de Ruggiero and Collingwood. Rethinking History, 18(4), 620-625. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2014.931125
The question-and-answer logic of historical context (2013)
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Fear, C. (2013). The question-and-answer logic of historical context. History of the Human Sciences, 26(3), 68-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695113491757Quentin Skinner has enduringly insisted that a past text cannot be 'understood' without the reader knowing something about its historical and linguistic context. But since the 1970s he has been attacked on this central point of all his work by author... Read More about The question-and-answer logic of historical context.