The expert's historian : Otto Hintze and the nature of modern historical thought / Leonard S. Smith ; foreword by R. Guy Erwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Leonard S. (Leonard Sander), 1932- author.

Contributor:

Erwin, R. Guy, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hintze, Otto, 1861-1940.

Hintze, Otto.

Historiography.

Historicism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2017.

Summary:

"As we hoped, Hintze's further development made him one of the great ones in the discipline. To be sure, he was one of those who was only known in the circle of experts, like a very high mountain in a mountain range which one first noticed from the vantage point of a high pass." --Friedrich Meinecke, 1941 (translated by Leonard S. Smith) "What we call historicism is a new, unique, categorical-structure of the mind [des Geistes] that began to arise in the West in the eighteenth century and achieved authoritative currency in the nineteenth, particularly in Germany, though not in Germany alone. It is characterized by the categories of individuality and development, which postulate a view of historical reality based on the analogy of the life unit [Lebenseinheit] and the life-process [Lebensprozess]." --Otto Hintze, 1927 (translated by Leonard S. Smith) "If Hintze could be included, as he should be, as one of 'the great ones in the discipline' in historiography classes throughout the United States, this could greatly widen 'the circle of experts' in this and other English-speaking countries and/or encourage history teachers to lead students to reach 'the vantage point of a high pass' where they could see this 'very high mountain' for themselves." --Leonard S. Smith, 2012.

Contents:

A fifty-year encounter with Otto Hintze and historicism as a method of doing history, 1962-2012

Meinecke, Troeltsch, Hintze, and the discovery of historicism as a methodology

Otto Hintze and Max Weber : from the roots of bureaucracy to the invention of historical ideal types

Frederick C. Beiser and the German historicist tradition : a critical review

Appendix: Inaugural speech of Mr. Hintze

Epilogue: Teaching the idea of history and historicism as a method for writing a history paper

A typology of Western historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781498281621

1498281621