The German historicist tradition / Frederick C. Beiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historicism.

Philosophy, German--19th century.

Philosophy, German.

Physical Description:

xii, 600 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This 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 twentieth century, providing an introduction to each thinker and the main issues in interpreting and appraising his thought. The volume offers new interpretations of well-known philosophers such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Max Weber, and introduces others who are scarcely known at all, including J.A. Chladenius, Justus Möser, Heinrich Rickert, and Emil Lask. Beyond an exploration of die 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

The concept and context of historicism

Chladenius and the new science of history

Justus Möser 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 historicism

Max Weber and the end of the historicist tradition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [568]-594) and index.

ISBN:

9780199691555

019969155X

OCLC:

751726167