Table of Contents

Introduction: Concept and Context of Historicism
1: Chladenius and the New Science of History
2: Justus Möser and the Roots of Historicism
3: Herder's Historicism, its Genesis and Development
4: Humboldt the Proteus
5: Savigny and the Historical School of Law
6: Ranke's Romantic Philosophy
7: The Historics of Johann Gustav Droysen
8: Dilthey and the Foundations of the Human Sciences
9: Wilhelm Windelband and the Forces of History
10: Rickert and the Philosophy of Value
11: Emil Lask and the End of Southwestern Neo-Kantianism
12: Simmel's Early Philosophy of History
13: Max Weber and the End of the Historicist Tradition
Bibliography

About the Author

Frederick C. Beiser studied for his BA and DPhil at Oxford. He has taught at seven universities during his career--Penn, Wisconsin, Colorado, Indiana, Yale, Harvard and Syracuse--and has researched for many years in Germany, where he was a recipient of Thyssen and Humboldt fellowships.

Reviews

This is an excellent and fascinating book. Beiser brings to bear a deep knowledge of both primary and secondary sources, a sharp eye for important philosophical issues, and an engaging writing style.
*Michael N. Forster, Mind*

this book exhibits the stylistic virtues that readers have come to expect from Beisers work, above all the virtue of clarity of exposition
*Corey McCall, Philosophy in Review*

This is an excellent and fascinating book. Beiser brings to bear a deep knowledge of both primary and secondary sources, a sharp eye for important philosophical issues, and an engaging writing style.
*Michael N. Forster, Mind*