This is the first history in English of German historicism, the intellectualtradition which holds that history is the key to understanding all human values, beliefs and actions. Beiser surveys the key thinkers from the mid-18th to the early 20th century and illuminates the sources and reasons for this revolution in modern thought. This is the first full study in English of the German historicist tradition. Frederick C. Beiser surveys the major German thinkers on history from the middle of the eighteenth century until the early twentiethcentury, providing an introduction to each thinker and the main issues in interpreting and appraising his thought. The volume offers new interpretations ofwell-known philosophers such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Max Weber, and introduces others who are scarcely known atall, including J. A. Chladenius, Justus Mser, Heinrich Rickert, and Emil Lask. Beyond an exploration of the historical and intellectual context of each thinker, Beiser illuminates the sources and reasons for the movement of German historicism--one of the great revolutions in modern Western thought,and the source of our historical understanding of the human world. INDICE: Introduction: Concept and Context of Historicism Chladenius and the New Science of History Justus Mser and the Roots of Historicism Herder's Historicism, its Genesis and Development Humboldt the Proteus Savigny and the Historical School of Law Ranke's Romantic Philosophy The Historics of Johann Gustav Droysen Dilthey and the Foundations of the Human Sciences Wilhelm Windelband and the Forces of History Rickert and the Philosophy of Value Emil Lask and the End of Southwestern Neo-Kantianism Simmel's Early Philosophy of History Max Weber and the End of the Historicist Tradition Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-969155-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 648
- Fecha Publicación: 24/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés