Germany's Conscience : : Friedrich Meinecke: Champion of German Historicism / / Reinbert Krol.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Zeit - Sinn - Kultur ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Ideal of a unity -- 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 -- 2.1 Prelude -- 2.2 Staatsräson according to Meinecke -- 2.3 The tragic character of Meinecke’s Staatsräson -- 3. A conscience akin to God -- 3.1 Staatsräson as a ‘solution’ -- 3.2 The statesman’s conscience -- 4. A world view in the making -- 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 -- 5. Harmony regained -- 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 -- 6. The authority of the personality -- 6.1 A controversial study -- 6.2 A catastrophic synthesis -- 6.3 Nature, chance, fate -- 6.4 Kultur as cure -- 6.5 Apotheosis -- Final conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | 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 Meinecke had lived through more unsettling transformations, during which these questions were most pressing. Reinbert Krol's analysis of Meinecke's intellectual development does not only give us insight into his philosophy of history - which turns out to be more conciliatory than previously assumed - it can also be a source of inspiration for scholars of history today. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783839451359 9783110743357 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754186 9783110753967 9783111025100 9783110767315 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783839451359?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Reinbert Krol. |