Historicism and Its Problems

Download or read book Historicism and Its Problems written by Ernst Troeltsch and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a translation of Ernst Troeltsch's last (1923) major work. It is an exhaustive study of the methods of historiography and of German, French, English, and Italian philosophies of history during the nineteenth century. It is motivated by the purpose of developing the proper concept of historical development, for overcoming "bad" historicism (i.e., unlimited relativism) with "good" historicism (with relativity, not relativism), and determining how values drawn from history can be used to shape the future. It concludes with a sketch of the unwritten second volume on the material philosophy of history.