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Religion and the Rise of Historicism - W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness (Paperback, Revised)
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Religion and the Rise of Historicism - W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness (Paperback, Revised)
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This book offers an interpretation of the rise of secular
historical thought in nineteenth-century Europe. Instead of
characterizing 'historicism' and 'secularization' as fundamental
breaks with Europe's religious heritage, they are presented as
complex cultural permutations with much continuity; for inherited
theological patterns of interpreting experience determined to a
large degree the conditions, possibilities and limitations of the
forms of historical imagination realizable by nineteenth-century
secular intellectuals. This point is made by examining the thought
of the German theologian W. M. L. de Wette and that of the
Swiss-German historian Jacob Burckhardt. Burckhardt's meeting with
de Wette and his subsequent decision to study history over theology
are interpreted as revealing moments in nineteenth-century
intellectual history. By examining their encounter, its larger
historical context, and the thought of both men, the book
demonstrates the centrality of theological concerns and forms of
knowledge in the emergence of modern, secular historical
consciousness.
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