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Author:   Professor Herman Paul (Leiden University, the Netherlands) ,  Assistant Professor Adriaan van Veldhuizen (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781350121959

ISBN 10:   1350121959
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 October 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Biographical Notes Introduction: Historicism as a Travelling Concept Herman Paul and Adriaan van Veldhuizen I: Travels through Time 1 Historicism through the Lens of Anti-Historicism: The Case of Modern Jewish History David N. Myers 2 Historicism as a Modern Theological Problem Gary Dorrien II Travels Through Space 3 Historicism and Positivism in Sociology: Weimar Germany to the Contemporary United States George Steinmetz 4 Historicism’s Arrival in the United States: Two Routes from Germany Adriaan van Veldhuizen III Travel Companions 5 The Specter of Historicism: A Discourse of Fear Herman Paul 6 Thinking in Uncertain Times: Raymond Aron and the Politics of Historicism Sophie Marcotte-Chenard IV Travels Beyond Historicism 7 Friedrich Meinecke’s Historism or the Defeat of German Historicism Audrey Borowski 8 Karl Löwith’s Historicization of Historicism Bruno Godefroy

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In perpetual crisis, the polysemic concept of historicism has relentlessly moved from discipline to discipline, culture to culture, unsettling all efforts to wrest absolute values from the flux of relativism. The remarkable essays collected by Paul and van Veldhuizen follow its fortunes in historical, social scientific, philosophical and theological-both Christian and Jewish-contexts, as well as across national boundaries in Germany, America, France and Holland. * Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA *

In perpetual crisis, the polysemic concept of “historicism” has relentlessly moved from discipline to discipline, culture to culture, unsettling all efforts to wrest absolute values from the flux of relativism. The remarkable essays collected by Paul and van Veldhuizen follow its fortunes in historical, social scientific, philosophical and theological—both Christian and Jewish—contexts, as well as across national boundaries in Germany, America, France and Holland. * Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA *

Author Information

Herman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Key Issues in Historical Theory (2015) and Hayden White: The Historical Imagination (2011). Adriaan van Veldhuizen is Assistant Professor in Historical Theory at Leiden University, The Netherlands, where he coordinates the PhD program in history and plays a leading role in the research project, “The Demands of our Time: Epochal Thinking from 1800 to the Present.” He published a Dutch-language book on the history of socialism and several articles on historical theory, most recently in History and Theory.

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