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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2005

ISBN (Hardback): 9783540243939

ISBN (eBook): 9783540273523

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Peter Koslowski (ed), The discovery of historicity in German idealism and historism, Berlin, Springer, 2005

The discovery of historicity in German idealism and historism

Edited by
Peter Koslowski

Springer

2005

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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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2005

ISBN (Hardback): 9783540243939

ISBN (eBook): 9783540273523

Full citation:

Peter Koslowski (ed), The discovery of historicity in German idealism and historism, Berlin, Springer, 2005