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Review Article

Historicism, Enlightenment, and ‘the Two Eyes of Wisdom’

Modern Historiography in the Making. The German Sense of the Past, 1700–1900, by Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen, London, Bloomsbury, 2023, 186 pp., £28.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781350271487

Published online: 09 May 2024
 

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Notes

1 Megill, “History’s Unresolving Tensions.”

2 Eskildsen, Modern Historiography, 10. Further references to this work will be made parenthetically in the text.

3 As for instance Beiser, The German Historicist Tradition, or Iggers, The German Conception of History, or nearly all the literature that preceded them.

4 On history of knowledge, history of science, and their relationship, see Marchand, “How much Knowledge.”

5 Assis, Plural Pasts, 55–9; see also van den Akker, The Exemplifying Past.

6 Paul, “Review.”

7 See Iggers, The German Conception of History, 63–5.

8 Grafton, The Footnote, 34–93.

9 See Blanke, Historiographiegeschichte, 84–110; Witschi-Bernz, “Main Trends.”

10 Quoted by Eskildsen, Modern Historiography, 22.

11 Assis, What is History For?, 10–12; Bouton, “Learning from History.”

12 Schiffman, “Renaissance Historicism Reconsidered,” 173.

13 Krol, “Review,” 780.

14 Jollivet, “Historicism.”

15 Mata “Outono da teoria?”, 95–7; Wittkau, Historismus, 73–9, 86–95.

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This work was supported by Brazil's National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

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