Historismus a kulturní pesimismus - Revize ideje pokroku v 19. století
Historicism and Cultural Pessimism: The Nineteenth-century Idea of Progress Reconsidered

Summary/Abstract: This essay is a chapter from a forthcoming work on the history of the idea of progress in European thought. In it the author considers the relativization of the concept of pro¬gress in historicism, as it crystallized in the works of the historian Leopold von Ranke and the philosopher Johann G. Droysen. This movement was intensified in the work of the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt in the subjectivization of historical criteria, the idea of the historicity of cultures substituting for universal history permeated with meaning, and in ascribing the leading principle in history to will instead of reason.

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