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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.

Burckhardt, Jacob, -- 1818-1897. --- History -- Philosophy. --- Ranke, Leopold von, -- 1795-1886.

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History as a science --- Burckhardt, Jacob --- Germany --- Historiography --- History --- Burckhardt, Jacob, --- -Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph --- -History --- Burckhardt, Jakob --- Burckhardt, Carl Jacob Christoph --- Historiography - History --- Burckhardt, Jacob, - 1818-1897

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This volume provides Dilthey's most mature and best formulation of his Critique of Historical Reason. It begins with three "Studies Toward the Foundation of the Human Sciences," in which Dilthey refashions Husserlian concepts to describe the basic structures of consciousness relevant to historical understanding.The volume next presents the major 1910 work The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. Here Dilthey considers the degree to which carriers of history--individuals, cultures, institutions, and communities--can be articulated as productive systems capable of generating value and meaning and of realizing purposes. Hegel's idea of objective spirit is reconceived in a more empirical form to designate the medium of commonality in which historical beings are immersed. Any universal claims about history need to be framed within the specific productive systems analyzed by the various human sciences. Dilthey's drafts for the Continuation of the Formation contain extensive discussions of the categories most important for our knowledge of historical life: meaning, value, purpose, time, and development. He also examines the contributions of autobiography to historical understanding and of biography to scientific history.The finest summary of Dilthey's views on hermeneutics can be found in "The Understanding of Other Persons and Their Manifestations of Life." Here, Dilthey differentiates understanding relative to three kinds of manifestations of life. After giving his analysis of elementary understanding, he examines the role of induction in higher understanding and interpretation, and the relevance of transposition and re-experiencing for grasping individuality.

Dilthey, Wilhelm, --- Hermeneutics. --- Geesteswetenschappen. --- History as a science --- Theory of knowledge --- Hermeneutics --- History --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Geschiedfilosofie. --- Social sciences --- Herméneutique --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Philosophy --- Buckle, Henry Thomas, --- Schlosser, Friedrich Christoph, --- Schleiermacher, Friedrich, --- Burckhardt, Jacob, --- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- History, Modern --- History - Philosophy --- Buckle, Henry Thomas, - 1821-1862. - History of civilization in England --- Schlosser, Friedrich Christoph, - 1776-1861 --- Schleiermacher, Friedrich, - 1768-1834 --- Burckhardt, Jacob, - 1818-1897. - Cultur der Renaissance in Italien --- Social sciences - Philosophy --- Aristotle. --- Bacon, Francis. --- Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne. --- Catholic mysticism. --- Comte. --- Descartes, Ren. --- Don Juan. --- Florence. --- French Revolution. --- Galileo. --- German Enlightenment. --- Gibbon, Edward. --- Guicciardini, Francesco. --- Handel, Georg Friedrich. --- Herodotus. --- Koch, Johannes. --- Lutheranism. --- Macbeth. --- Müller, Johannes. --- Niebuhr, Barthold Georg. --- Quakers. --- Ritschl, Albrecht. --- Schlegel, Friedrich. --- Sigwart, Christoph. --- abstraction. --- anthropological reflection. --- association. --- awareness. --- biography. --- categories. --- community. --- consciousness. --- education. --- elementary operations. --- ethical life. --- evaluation. --- external world. --- human sciences. --- humanism. --- idealism. --- intentional relation. --- justification. --- knowledge. --- literature. --- presentification. --- psychological analysis. --- reciprocal influence. --- sensation. --- solidarity. --- state of affairs. --- tendency. --- transformation.