Koslowski Peter (ed.) The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism

Berlin: Springer, 2005. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 0387556508; ISBN13: 978-3540243939 — (Ethical Economy)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.Absolute Historicity, Theory of the Becoming Absolute, and the Affect for the Particular in German Idealism and Historism: Introduction. Peter KoslowskiGerman Idealism's Philosophy of History and its Contemporary CritiqueSchlegel's Theory of History and his Critique of Idealistic Reason. Peter L. Oesterreich
History as the Control of Speculation: Schelling's Discovery of History and Baader's Critique of Absolute
Historicity. Peter KoslowskiThe Theory of History in German HistorismLeopold von Ranke. Helmut Berding
Droysen and Nietzsche: Two Different Answers to the Discovery of Historicity. Annette Wittkau-Horgby
Philosophy of History and Theory of Historiography in Jacob Burckhardt. Egon Flaig
Historiography as Political Activity: Heinrich von Treitschke and the Historical Reconstruction of Politics. Karl H. Metz
Literary Criticism and Historical Science: The Textuality of History in the Age of Goethe - and Beyond. Daniel Fulda
Social and Philosophical Theory in the 19th Century German Thought. Mario SignoreGerman Theory and Philosophy of History TodayPhilosophy of History After the End of the Formative Substantial Philosophy of History: Remarks on the Present State of the Philosophy of History. Hans Michael Baumgartner
Why Kant's Reflections on History Still Have Relevance. Herta Nagl-Docekal
Rehabilitating the Philosophy of History. Johannes Rohbeck
History and Subjectivity - The Relevance of a Philosophical Concept of History in the Kantian Tradition
Matthias Lutz-Bachmann
Towards a New Theory-Based History of Historiography. Horst Walter Blanke
Philosophy of History After the Philosophy of History: Toward a Cultural History with Historical-Philosophical Background. Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner