The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism

Abstract

German Idealism's Philosophy of History and its Contemporary Critique.- Schlegel's Theory of History and his Critique of Idealistic Reason.- History as the Control of Speculation: Schelling's Discovery of History and Baader's Critique of Absolute Historicity.- Absolute Historicity, Theory of the Becoming Absolute, and the Affect for the Particular in German Idealism and Historism: Introduction.- The Theory of History in German Historism.- Leopold von Ranke.- Droysen and Nietzsche: Two Different Answers to the Discovery of Historicity.- Philosophy of History and Theory of Historiography in Jacob Burckhardt.- Historiography as Political Activity: Heinrich von Treitschke and the Historical Reconstruction of Politics.- Literary Criticism and Historical Science: The Textuality of History in the Age of Goethe - and Beyond.- Social and Philosophical Theory in the 19th Century German Thought.- German Theory and Philosophy of History Today.- Philosophy of History After the End of the Formative Substantial Philosophy of History: Remarks on the Present State of the Philosophy of History.- Why Kant's Reflections on History Still Have Relevance.- Rehabilitating the Philosophy of History.- History and Subjectivity - The Relevance of a Philosophical Concept of History in the Kantian Tradition.- Towards a New Theory-Based History of Historiography.- Philosophy of History After the Philosophy of History: Toward a Cultural History with Historical-Philosophical Background.