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Historicist Thought

Historicist Thought is a methodological paradigm in German intellectual history that regards historical phenomena as fundamentally unique and intelligible only through their specific temporal contexts, thereby rejecting universalizing, ahistorical explanations in favor of contextual interpretation.

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Authors

345

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2017–2026

80

Variants

Historicism

Parents

Publications

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Futures past: on the semantics of historical time

Peter Burke · History of European Ideas · 1987 · 2.1K citations

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Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time.

David Carr, Reinhart Koselleck, Keith Tribe · History and Theory · 1987 · 2.1K citations

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The Great Chain of Being. A Study of the History of an Idea.

H. T. C., Arthur O. Lovejoy · The Journal of Philosophy · 1936 · 1.7K citations

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White Mythologies: Writing History and the West

David William Foster, Robert Young · Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature · 1991 · 1.7K citations

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Historical thinking and other unnatural acts: charting the future of teaching the past

Choice Reviews Online · 2002 · 1.3K citations

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Authors

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  1. AC
    Arthur C. Danto

    Columbia University, United States

    7 publications · 1K citations

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  2. MB
    Mark Bevir

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    7 publications · 322 citations

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  3. AM
    Allan Megill

    University of Virginia, United States

    6 publications · 291 citations

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  4. JR
    Jörn Rüsen

    Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen, Germany

    6 publications · 300 citations

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  5. GG
    Georg G. Iggers

    University at Buffalo, State University of New York, United States

    5 publications · 523 citations

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Institutions

345

  1. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    200 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    470 citations

  3. University of Warwick

    Coventry, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    181 citations

  4. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    294 citations

  6. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    210 citations

  7. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    132 citations

  8. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    458 citations

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Venues

  1. History and Theory

    102 publications · 6.5K citations

    37

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 60 publications · 6.1K citations

    34

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  3. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 40 publications · 2.8K citations

    22

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  4. Journal of the History of Ideas

    JHI · 20 publications · 819 citations

    14

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  5. New Literary History

    NLH · 16 publications · 937 citations

    14

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