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The discovery of historicity in German idealism and historism
Abstract
German Idealism develops its philosophy of history as the theory of becoming absolute and as absolute knowledge. Historism also originates from Hegel's and Schelling's discovery of absolute historicity as it turns against Idealism's philosophy of history by emphasizing the singular and unique in the process of history. German Idealism and Historism can be considered as the central German contribution to the history of ideas. Since Idealism became most influential for modern philosophy and Historism for modern historiography, they are analyzed in this volume in a collaboration of philosophers and historians. German Idealism is presented in Schelling and its critics Schlegel, Baader, and Nietzsche; Historism in Ranke, Droysen, Burckhardt, and Treitschke. The volume further presents the impact of Idealism and Historism on present German approaches to the philosophy of history and outlines the debates on the possibility of a philosophy of history and on the methodology of the historical sciences.
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introduction
pp.1-5
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_1pp.9-22
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_2Schelling's discovery of history and Baader's critique of absolute historicity
pp.23-38
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_3two different answers to the discovery of historicity
pp.59-76
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_5pp.77-97
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_6Heinrich von Treitschke and the historical reconstruction of politics
pp.98-111
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_7the textuality of history in the age of Goethe — and beyond
pp.112-133
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_8pp.134-146
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_9remarks on the present state of the philosophy of history
pp.149-171
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_10pp.172-186
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_11pp.212-222
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_13pp.223-267
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_14toward a cultural history with historical-philosophical background
pp.268-281
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27352-2_15Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2005
Pages: 296
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-540-24393-9
ISBN (digital): 978-3-540-27352-3
Full citation:
Koslowski Peter (2005) The discovery of historicity in German idealism and historism. Dordrecht, Springer.