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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, Reading Capital
(London, 1970); in Part II, Chapter V, “Marxism is not a
Historicism,” Althusser argues against modern Marxist in-
terpretations of Marxism as a form of historicism. Carlo
Antoni, From History to Sociology. The Transition in German
Historical Thinking
(Detroit, 1959), chapters on Dilthey,
Troeltsch, Meinecke, Weber, Huizinga, and Wölfflin; idem,
la lotta contro la ragione (Florence, 1942), German trans.,
Der Kampf wider die Vernunft (Stuttgart, 1951); discussion
of the origins of historicism in Switzerland and Germany
in eighteenth-century political context; idem, Lo Storicismo
(1957; 2nd ed. Turin, 1968), French trans., L'Historisme
(Geneva, 1963); a discussion of varieties of European histor-
icisms since the eighteenth century. Chr. J. Braniss, Die
wissenschaftliche Aufgabe der Gegenwart
(Breslau, 1848),
pp. 113-38, 195, 200, 248. Peter Burke, The Renaissance
Sense of the Past
(New York, 1969). R. G. Collingwood, The
Idea of History
(Oxford and New York, 1946). Benedetto
Croce, Aesthetic, trans. D. Ainslie (London and New York,
1909), pp. 32-38; cf. Estetica... (1902; Bari, 1958), pp.
37-44; idem, la storia come pensiero e come azione (Bari,
1938), trans. as History as the Story of Liberty (New York,
1955); idem, Teoria e storia della storiographia (Bari, 1917),
trans. D. Ainslie as History—Its Theory and Practice (New
York, 1921). E. Dühring, Kritische Grundlegung der Volks-
wirtschaftslehre
(Berlin, 1866), p. 47. Friedrich Engel-Janosi,
The Growth of German Historicism (Baltimore, 1944).
Ludwig Feuerbach, Review of “Kritik des Idealismus von
F. Dorguth” (1838) in Sämtliche Werke (Leipzig, 1846-66),
II, 143-44. I. H. Fichte, Diephilosophischen Lehren von


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Recht, Staat und Sitte in Deutschland, Frankreich und
England von der Mitte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zur
Gegenwart
(Leipzig, 1850), pp. 469-70. Karl Heussi, Die
Krisis des Historismus
(Tübingen, 1932). Wilhelm von
Humboldt, “On the Historian's Task,” in Leopold von
Ranke, The Theory and Practice of History (Indianapolis,
1971), pp. 5-23. Georg G. Iggers, The German Conception
of History. The National Tradition of History
(Middletown,
Conn., 1968). I. S. Kon, Geschichtsphilosophie des 20.
Jahrhunderts,
2 vols. (Berlin, 1964), a Soviet critique of
historicism. Dwight E. Lee and Robert N. Beck, “The
Meaning of 'Historicism',” American Historical Review, 59
(1953-54), 568-77; an examination of major uses of the term.
Karl Mannheim, “Historismus,” Archiv für Sozialwissen-
schaft und Sozialpolitik,
52 (1924), 1-60. Karl Marx, Capital,
Vol. I (1867; New York, 1967); idem, Writings of the Young
Marx on Philosophy and Society,
ed. Loyd D. Easton and
Kurt H. Guddat (Garden City, N.Y., 1967); see particularly
Marx's editorial on “The Philosophical Manifesto of the
Historical School of Law,” pp. 96-105. Karl Marx and
Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence (Moscow, 1956);
on the uniqueness of historical phenomena and of European
capitalism, see Marx's letter to the Editorial Board of the
Otechestvenniye Zapiski (November 1877), pp. 376-79. Hans
Meyerhoff, ed., The Philosophy of History in Our Time
(Garden City, N.Y., 1959); on historicism, see particularly
pp. 9-18. Friedrich Meinecke, DieEntstehung des Histor-
ismus
(Munich, 1936; 1965). Karl Popper, The Poverty of
Historicism
(Boston, 1957). Carl Prantl, Diegegenwärtige
Aufgabe der Philosophie
(Munich, 1852), passim. Leopold
von Ranke, The Theory and Practice of History, ed. Georg
G. Iggers and Konrad von Moltke (Indianapolis, 1971).
Pietro Rossi, Lo Storicismo contemporaneo (Turin, 1968);
a discussion of German and Italian historicism since Dilthey
and Croce and of neo-positivism. Erich Rothacker, “Das
Wort 'Historismus',” Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung,
16 (1960), 3-6; early uses of the term. Friedrich Schlegel,
Kritische Ausgabe, Vol. XVIII (Munich, 1963), p. 91.
Schlegel here speaks of different “types of philosophy”
(philosophische Arten)—“systems,” he comments, would be
“a bad expression”—among which he includes “ethicism,”
“politicism,” “logicism,” “poeticism,” and “historicism”
depending on the emphasis within the philosophy. For a
different use of the term, see his notes of December 1802,
ibid., p. 481. Ernst Troeltsch, DieAbsolutheit des Christen-
tums und die Religionsgeschichte
(Tübingen, 1902), pp.
48-49; idem, Aufsätze zur Geistesgeschichte und Reli-
gionssoziologie
in Gesammelte Schriften (Tübingen,
1912-25), IV, 628; idem, deutscher Geist und Westeuropa
(Tübingen, 1925); idem, Der Historismus und seine Probleme
(1923), Vol. III of Gesammelte Schriften; idem, Der Historis-
mus und seine Überwindung
(Berlin, 1924), trans. as Chris-
tian Thought. Its History and Application
(London, 1923);
idem, The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches, 2 vols.
(London, 1931). Max Weber, “Objectivity in Social Science
and Social Policy” (1904), in Max Weber on the Methodology
of the Social Sciences,
trans. and ed. E. A. Shils and H. A.
Finch (Glencoe, Ill., 1949), pp. 80, 101; idem, “Science as
a Vocation” (1919), in From Max Weber. Essays in Sociology,
trans. and ed. Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills (New York,
1946).

GEORG G. IGGERS

[See also Enlightenment; Historiography; Marxism; Nation-
alism; Positivism in Europe to 1900;
Relativism in Ethics;
State.]