Table of Contents

Absolute historicity, theory of the becoming absolute, and the affect for the particular in German idealism and historism : introduction / Peter Koslowski 1

Ch. 1 Schlegel's theory of history and his critique of idealistic reason / Peter L. Oesterreich 9

Ch. 2 History as the control of speculation : Schelling's discovery of history and Baader's critique of absolute historicity / Peter Koslowski 23

Ch. 3 Leopold von Ranke / Helmut Berding 41

Ch. 4 Droysen and Nietzsche : two different answers to the discovery of historicity / Annette Wittkau-Horgby 59

Ch. 5 Philosophy of history and theory of historiography in Jacob Burckhardt / Egon Flaig 77

Ch. 6 Historiography as political activity : Heinrich von Treitschke and the historical reconstruction of politics / Karl H. Metz 98

Ch. 7 Literary criticism and historical science : the textuality of history in the age of Goethe - and beyond / Daniel Fulda 112

Ch. 8 Social and philosophical theory in the 19[superscript th] century German thought / Mario Signore 134

Ch. 9 Philosophy of history after the end of the formative substantial philosophy of history : remarks on the present state of the philosophy of history / Hans Michael Baumgartner 149

Ch. 10 Why Kant's reflections on history still have relevance / Herta Nagl-Docekal 172

Ch. 11 Rehabilitating the philosophy of history / Johannes Rohbeck 187

Ch. 12 History and subjectivity - the relevance of a philosophical concept of history in the Kantian tradition / Matthias Lutz-Bachmann 212

Ch. 13 Towards a new theory-based history of historiography / Horst Walter Blanke 223

Ch. 14 Philosophy of history after the philosophy of history : toward a cultural history with historical-philosophical background / Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner