Germany's Conscience: Friedrich Meinecke: Champion of German Historicism

Questions of truth, ethics, state power, and propaganda, of how to render account of catastrophes and reconcile oneself with one's past are not only crucial to our time, they were also central to the German historian Friedrich Meinecke (1862-1954). Probably no generation of historians before Me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krol, Reinbert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript, 2021.
Colección:Zeit, Sinn, Kultur.
Temas:
Meinecke, Friedrich, > 1862-1954.
Historicism.
Historians > Germany.
History > Philosophy.
Cultural History.
Cultural Studies.
Ethics.
German Historicism.
History of Science.
History.
Panentheism.
Philosophy of History.
Science.
Theory of History.
Historicisme.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Historians.
Germany.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Meinecke studies
  • Methodological principles
  • Structure of the book
  • 1. The Ideal of a unity
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 Nations, the national state and cosmopolitanism
  • 1.2 The universal and the national
  • 1.3 The reconciliation of cosmopolitanism and the national state?
  • 1.4 The tradition of the ideal
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Struggling with a world view
  • Introduction
  • 2.1 Prelude
  • 2.2 Staatsräson according to Meinecke
  • State interest and an ideal of humanity
  • 2.3 The tragic character of Meinecke's Staatsräson
  • 3. A conscience akin to God
  • Introduction
  • 3.1 Staatsräson as a 'solution'
  • 3.2 The statesman's conscience
  • Conclusion
  • 4. A world view in the making
  • Introduction
  • 4.1 The individualizing view
  • 4.2 Pietism and Neoplatonism
  • 4.3 Reason and Unreason
  • 4.4 Traditionalism and historicism
  • 4.5 The prelude to Meinecke's historicism
  • 4.6 Science or world view
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Harmony regained
  • Introduction
  • 5.1 Polarities and harmony
  • 5.2 Meinecke's Umdeutung of Goethe
  • 5.3 Goethe and the daemonic
  • 5.4 Harmony and dissonance
  • 5.5 Meinecke and the crisis of historicism
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The authority of the personality
  • Introduction
  • 6.1 A controversial study
  • 6.2 A catastrophic synthesis
  • 6.3 Nature, chance, fate
  • 6.4 Kultur as cure
  • 6.5 Apotheosis
  • Conclusion
  • Final conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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