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Germany's Conscience
Friedrich Meinecke: Champion of German Historicism
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Reinbert Krol
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2021
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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.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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1.1 Nations, the national state and cosmopolitanism
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1.2 The universal and the national
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1.3 The reconciliation of cosmopolitanism and the national state?
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1.4 The tradition of the ideal
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Conclusion
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2.1 Prelude
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2.2 Staatsräson according to Meinecke
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2.3 The tragic character of Meinecke’s Staatsräson
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3.1 Staatsräson as a ‘solution’
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3.2 The statesman’s conscience
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Conclusion
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4.1 The individualizing view
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4.2 Pietism and Neoplatonism
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4.3 Reason and Unreason
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4.4 Traditionalism and historicism
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4.5 The prelude to Meinecke’s historicism
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4.6 Science or world view
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Conclusion
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5.1 Polarities and harmony
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5.2 Meinecke’s Umdeutung of Goethe
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5.3 Goethe and the daemonic
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5.4 Harmony and dissonance
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5.5 Meinecke and the crisis of historicism
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Conclusion
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6.1 A controversial study
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6.2 A catastrophic synthesis
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6.3 Nature, chance, fate
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6.4 Kultur as cure
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6.5 Apotheosis
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Conclusion
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Final conclusions
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Bibliography
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Index
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July 5, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783839451359
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302
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Keywords for this book
Friedrich Meinecke; Friedrich Meinecke; German Historicism; German Historicism; Panentheism; Panentheism; Philosophy of History; Philosophy of History; Ethics; Ethics; Cultural History; Cultural History; Science; Science; History of Science; History of Science; Theory of History; Theory of History; History; History; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
