Series: Routledge Library Editions: Historiography

In this work, originally published in 1989, the author establishes a tradition of radical historicism from Hegel to the Budapest School. He charts both its continuous evolution from the early 19th century to the late 20th, and its transformation in the context of European social, economic, and cultural change. Through a reappraisal of historical interpretation from Hegel to Foucault, the...

The first important scholarly consideration of Enlightenment historiography of the twentieth century, this book, originally published in 1926, critically examines the ideas of Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon with respect to the theory and practice of historiography. The substantial introduction outlines the main differences between the ideals of these literary-philosophical schools and those which prevailed among historians in the early...