Metahistory : the historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe
Print Book, English, 1973
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1973
History
xii, 448 pages ; 25 cm
9780801814693, 9780801817618, 0801814693, 0801817617
700666
The received tradition: the Enlightenment and the problem of historical consciousness. The historical imagination between metaphor and irony
Hegel: the poetics of history and the way beyond irony
Four kinds of "realism" in nineteenth-century historical writing. Michelet: historical realism as romance
Ranke: historical realism as comedy
Tocqueville: historical realism as tragedy
Burckhardt: historical realism as satire
The repudiation of "realism" in late nineteenth-century philosophy of history. Historical consciousness and the rebirth of philosophy of history
Marx: the philosophical defense of history in the metonymical mode
Nietzsche: the poetic defense of history in the metaphorical mode
Croce: the philosopical defense of history in the ironic mode
ISBN 0-8018-1761-7 Pbk : £3.20.
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