Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), generally recognized as the
founder of the school of modern critical historical scholarship,
and Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), the great Swiss proponent of
cultural interpretation, are fathers of modern history--giants of
their time who continue to exert an immense influence in our own.
They are usually seen as contrasts, Ranke as representative of
political history and Burckhardt of cultural history. In five
essays, each flowing gracefully into the next, the distinguished
historian Felix Gilbert shows that such contrasts are
oversimplifications. Despite their interest in different aspects of
the past, Ranke's and Burckhardt's views arose from common elements
in the first half of the nineteenth century, the time in which they
grew up and in which their first masterworks attracted such wide
attention. This concise volume clarifies the beginnings of history
as an autonomous discipline, while forcing us to examine our views
on basic questions in historical scholarship.
In the case of Ranke, relating his work to his times counteracts
the current tendency to disregard the difference between the
historical concepts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By
focusing on this difference, Gilbert emphasizes the originality and
novelty of Ranke's ideas about history. Although Burckhardt is
often portrayed as an intellectually lonely figure, this book
reveals the importance of relating his thought to the intellectual
trends of his time.
Originally published in 1990.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
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