The Last Judgment before the Last

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The Last Judgment before the Last

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ID	4623521
Author(s)	Wimmer, Mario
Author(s) at UniBasel	Wimmer, Mario
Year	2021
Title	The Last Judgment before the Last
Journal	Modern intellectual history
Abstract	Throughout the nineteenth century, most historians preferred not to ask philosophical questions. In their writings, however, they indirectly engaged with problems about the character of the world-historical process, thus confronting what might be called penultimate questions. This article analyzes both the notions and the practices of historical work in Leopold Ranke's writings to consider how his spontaneous philosophy of history came to shape an entire discipline. It argues that Ranke crafted what I call historical figures from archival materials and that these served as equivalents to concepts in G. W. F. Hegel's philosophical world history. The writing of history has not yet escaped the logic of these narrative figures of historical argumentation.
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
ISSN/ISBN	1479-2443 ; 1479-2451
edoc-URL	https://edoc.unibas.ch/84196/
Full Text on edoc	Available
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.1017/S1479244321000305
Top-publication of...	Wimmer, Mario

03/05/2024

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