This is the first history in English of German historicism, the intellectual tradition which holds that history is the key to understanding all human values, be

The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism traces the thought of a large and neglected group of German thinkers and their encounter with the ideas and

The first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography This is the first comprehensive critical examina

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