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Leopold von Ranke on Unity - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 212 Unity/History/Ranke/Gadamer: The idea of the unity of world history includes the uninterrupted continuity of the development of world history. This idea of continuity is also initially of a formal nature and does not imply any concrete content. It too is like an a priori of research, which invites us to penetrate ever deeper into the interweaving of the world-historical context. In this respect it is only as a methodological naivety of Ranke when he speaks of the "admirable continuity" of historical development(1). What he actually means by this is not at all this structure of continuity itself, but the content that is formed in this continuous development. >Interrelation/History/Ranke. That it is something and only one thing that finally emerges from the unmistakably diverse whole of the development of world history, namely the unity of the occidental cultural world, which was brought up by the Germanic-Romanic peoples and spread over the whole earth, is what arouses his admiration. GadamerVsRanke: Admittedly, even if one acknowledges this substantive sense of Ranke's admiration of "continuity", Ranke's naivety is still evident. The fact that world history has brought up this western cultural world in continuous development is again not a mere fact of experience that is determined by historical consciousness, but a condition of historical consciousness itself, i.e. nothing that could have been absent Gadamer I 213 or could be crossed out by new experience. Rather, it is only because world history has taken this course that the question of the meaning of history can be asked by a world-historical consciousness and mean the unity of its continuity. For this one can refer to Ranke himself. >Continuity/Ranke. 1. Ranke, Weltgeschichte IX, 2 Xlll._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ranke, Leopold von Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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