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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786156603321

Autore

Iggers Georg G

Titolo

The German conception of history : the national tradition of historical thought from Herder to the present / / Georg G. Iggers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press

Scranton, Pa., : Distributed by Harper & Row, 1983

ISBN

0-8195-7361-2

Edizione

[Rev. ed., 1st Wesleyan pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages)

Disciplina

943/.0072

Soggetti

Germany Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-380) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter I: Introduction; II: The Origins of German Historicism: THE TRANSFORMATION OF GERMAN HISTORICAL THOUGHT FROM HERDER'S COSMOPOLITAN CULTURE-ORIENTED NATIONALISM TO THE STATE-CENTERED EXCLUSIVE NATIONALISM OF THE WARS OF LIBERATION; III: The Theoretical Foundations of German Historicism I: Wilhelm von Humboldt; IV: The Theoretical Foundations of German Historicism II: Leopold von Ranke; V: The High Point of Historical Optimism-The ""Prussian School""

VI: The ""Crisis of Historicism"" I: THE PHILOSOPHIC CRITIQUE: COHEN, DILTHEY, WINDELBAND, RICKERT, WEBERVII: The ""Crisis of Historicism"" II: ERNST TROELTSCH AND FRIEDRICH MEINECKE; VIII: The Decline of the German ""Idea"" of History: THE IMPACT OF TWO WORLD WARS AND TOTALITARIANISM ON GERMAN HISTORICAL THOUGHT; IX: Epilogue; Notes; Suggested Readings; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography