Part Two: Historismus, Ranke’s Influence and its Ultimate Crisis
In the previous blog, Henry Mead scoped out the nature and origins of ‘Historismus’ in the work of Leopold von Ranke. Today’s second part scopes out Ranke’s influence and his…
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Historismus. Part One: Ranke, Historismus, and its Roots at the University of Berlin
The tradition of German historismus (often translated in English as historicism) was the leading method of historical study in Germany through the 19th and well into the 20th century. Its…