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Modern Historiography in the Making: The German Sense of the Past, 1700-1900

by Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781350271487
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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  • Pages: 200
  • Original Price: GBP 29.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Germany, Historiography, and History

At the end of the 19th century, German historical scholarship had grown to great prominence. Academics around the world imitated their German colleagues. Intellectuals described historical scholarship as a foundation of the modern worldview. To many, the modern age was an 'age of history'. This book investigates how German historical scholarship acquired this status.

Modern Historiography in the Making begins with the early Enlightenment, when scholars embraced the study of the past as a modernizing project, undermining dogmatic systems of belief and promoting progressive ideals, such a tolerance, open mindedness and reform-readiness. Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen looks at how this modernizing project remained an important motivation and justification for historical scholarship until the 20th century. Eskildsen successfully argues that German historical scholarship was not, as we have been told since the early 20th century, a product of historicism, but rather of Enlightenment ideals. The book offers this radical revision of the history of scholarship by focusing on practices of research and education. It examines how scholars worked and why they cared. It shows how their efforts forever changed our relationship not only to the past, but also to the world we live in.

Eskildsen, Kasper Risbjerg: - Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen is Associate Professor of History of Science at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the editor/co-editor of two books in Danish and German and has held teaching, research, and visiting positions at: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; University of Chicago, USA; Harvard University, USA; University of California at San Diego, USA; Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany; and EHESS, France.

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