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Ideas and events :

0226453022 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780226453026 (cloth : alk. paper)

b410887

Ideas and events :

[Book]

professing history /

Leonard Krieger ; edited by M.L. Brick ; with an introduction by Michael Ermarth.

Chicago :

University of Chicago Press,

1992.

xxix, 409 p. ;

24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-406) and index.

Stages in the history of political freedom -- The idea of authority in the west -- Hegel and history -- The intellectuals and European society -- History and existentialism in Sartre -- The historical Hanna Arendt -- The horizons of history -- The autonomy of intellectual history -- Historicism's revenge -- Culture, cataclysm, and contingency -- History and law in the seventeenth century : Pufendorf -- The distortions of political theory : the seventeenth-century case -- Kant and the crisis of natural law -- The uses of Marx for history -- Marx and Engels as historians -- Detaching Engels from Marx -- Nazism : highway or byway? -- The potential for democratization in occupied Germany : a problem in historical projection.

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Leonard Krieger has long been revered as a contemporary master historian. With an eye toward placing his critical achievements before an expanded readership, he helped compile this core collection of his most important essays. Together these essays bring under single cover the key themes and ideas of his life's work to serve as a handbook for intellectual history and historians of every stripe. This book reflects Krieger's conviction that the value of intellectual history is as a source of orientation in a world of information overload. In Krieger's hands, intellectual history has stressed "thinking-through" the relations between ideas and events rather than the compilation and recapitulation of mere facts and historical categories. The essays in this collection cover a range of topics, including history of ideas, intellectual history, early modern political history, German political history, Hegel, Marx, and more. Many of these essays are already classics of historical scholarship. With the demise of the Soviet Union and state-sponsored Marxism, and with the reunification of Germany, Krieger's history takes on new relevance and a renewed importance. With a splendid introduction by Michael Ermarth, and an extensive bibliography of Krieger's most important books and essays, this is a "must read" for every serious student of modern history.

History-- Philosophy.

Krieger, Leonard.

Brick, M. L.

20140213102138.0

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