
Historicism
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Yet the questions remain: What made generations of scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences worry about historicism? Why did even musicians and members of parliament warn against historicism? And what explains this remarkable career of the term across generations, fields, regions, and languages?
Focusing on the "travels" that historicism made, this volume uses historicism as a prism for exploring connections between disciplines and intellectual traditions usually studied in isolation from each other. It shows how generations of sociologists, theologians, and historians tried to avoid pitfalls associated with historicism and explains why the term was heavily charged with emotions like anxiety, anger, and worry.
While offering fresh interpretations of classic authors such as Friedrich Meinecke, Karl Löwith, and Leo Strauss, this volume highlights how historicism took on new meanings, connotations, and emotional baggage in the course of its travels through time and place.
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Adriaan van Veldhuizen is Assistant Professor in Historical Theory at Leiden University, The Netherlands, where he coordinates the PhD program in history and plays a leading role in the research project, "The Demands of our Time: Epochal Thinking from 1800 to the Present." He published a Dutch-language book on the history of socialism and several articles on historical theory, most recently in History and Theory.
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Acknowledgments
Biographical Notes
Introduction: Historicism as a Travelling Concept
Herman Paul and Adriaan van Veldhuizen
I: Travels through Time
1 Historicism through the Lens of Anti-Historicism: The Case of Modern Jewish History
David N. Myers
2 Historicism as a Modern Theological Problem
Gary Dorrien
II Travels Through Space
3 Historicism and Positivism in Sociology: Weimar Germany to the Contemporary United States
George Steinmetz
4 Historicism's Arrival in the United States: Two Routes from Germany
Adriaan van Veldhuizen
III Travel Companions
5 The Specter of Historicism: A Discourse of Fear
Herman Paul
6 Thinking in Uncertain Times: Raymond Aron and the Politics of Historicism
Sophie Marcotte-Chenard
IV Travels Beyond Historicism
7 Friedrich Meinecke's Historism or the Defeat of German Historicism
Audrey Borowski
8 Karl Löwith's Historicization of Historicism
Bruno Godefroy
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