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Ideas and events : professing history / Leonard Krieger ; edited by M.L. Brick ; with an introduction by Michael Ermarth.
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Krieger, Leonard
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English
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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xxix, 409 pages ; 24 cm
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D16.8 .K72 1992
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Summary note
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.403-406) and index.
Contents
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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ISBN
0226453022 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780226453026 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
91048097
OCLC
25130923
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