| Popis: |
In his preface to Die Entstehung des Historismus, written in 1936, Friedrich Meinecke, among other things, maintains that "the rise of the historicism has been... one of the main spiritual revolutions that the Western thought has ever produced". Half a century after that assertion, which in that period could seem partial, if we want to strike the balance of the level of the conceptual elaboration and of its influence on Western European culture, we cannot but confirm Meinecke's conviction. Moreover, if we want to perceive, without any prejudice or cultural provincialisms the significant influence that the "historicisms" had on the development of the social-historical science, we should go further the above-cited quotation, in order to go through the most significant moments of a debate which had and still has, as landmark, the route which leads from Dilthey to Weber, going through Simmel and Rickert. |
