History (eBook)

Politics or Culture? Reflections on Ranke and Burckhardt

Felix Gilbert (Autor)

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2014
120 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6107-1 (ISBN)

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Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), generally recognized as the founder of the school of modern critical historical scholarship, and Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), the great Swiss proponent of cultural interpretation, are fathers of modern history--giants of their time who continue to exert an immense influence in our own. They are usually seen as contrasts, Ranke as representative of political history and Burckhardt of cultural history. In five essays, each flowing gracefully into the next, the distinguished historian Felix Gilbert shows that such contrasts are oversimplifications. Despite their interest in different aspects of the past, Ranke's and Burckhardt's views arose from common elements in the first half of the nineteenth century, the time in which they grew up and in which their first masterworks attracted such wide attention. This concise volume clarifies the beginnings of history as an autonomous discipline, while forcing us to examine our views on basic questions in historical scholarship.In the case of Ranke, relating his work to his times counteracts the current tendency to disregard the difference between the historical concepts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By focusing on this difference, Gilbert emphasizes the originality and novelty of Ranke's ideas about history. Although Burckhardt is often portrayed as an intellectually lonely figure, this book reveals the importance of relating his thought to the intellectual trends of his time.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Schlagworte: Aldus Manutius • Arthur Schopenhauer • Barthold Georg Niebuhr • Bedeutung • beyond the limits • Burckhardt • Censure • Charles Darwin • Civilization • classics • Conspiracy Theory • Constantine the Great • Counter-Reformation • Cultural History • Culture of Greece • Dasein • despotism • Diplomatics • Economics • Ernst Curtius • First appearance • Friedrich Meinecke • Friedrich Schleiermacher • Fritz Stern • Genre Fiction • German Life • German Literature • gothic art • Great Power • Handbook • Hellenistic period • historical criticism • Historical Method • historical thinking • Historiography • human action • Ibid (short story) • Italian renaissance • Jacob Burckhardt • Johann Gustav Droysen • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Journal of the History of Ideas • Kritik • Lecture • Leopold von Ranke • Liberalism • Linguistics • Literature • Middle Ages • Modern Architecture • modern art • Modernity • Nachlass • Napoleon • napoleonic wars • Nation • Neoclassicism • neohumanism • Paul Heyse • Peter Paret • Philology • Philosophy • Poetry • Political History • Pope Gregory XIII • Pope Pius II • Pope Sixtus V • post-truth politics • Protestantism • Relationship between religion and science • Religion • Renaissance architecture • Renaissance Art • Roman Empire • Scholarly method • Secularization • security studies • Self-determination • sensationalism • separation of church and state • Sociocultural evolution • Sophocles • superficiality • Superiority (short story) • Syracuse University Press • The Age of Louis XIV • The Britons • The Last Article • Theology • the rise of Christianity • Thesis • Thucydides • University of Göttingen • V. • war • Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl • Wilhelm von Humboldt • Wolfgang Mommsen • World History • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6107-1 / 1400861071
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6107-1 / 9781400861071