Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4455796
AutoresSamuel Moyn (0000-0001-5152-956X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen64
Número4
Páginas639-657
Fecha de publicación2003-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jhi.2004.0008
OpenAlexW2086375038
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas23

This paper is a study of the account offered by Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) of the origins of modern historical thought. It investigates the German origins of his project, offers an overview of the developments he found in historical thinking from the Hebrew Bible to the twentieth century, compares his project to existing tendencies in scholarship, and offers a critical analysis of its uses and limits. The main thesis of the paper is that Funkenstein's chief originality lay in his argument that the origins of historical methods cannot be studied apart from revolutions in Western historical consciousness more generally

Argument (complex analysis · Consciousness · Epistemology · German · Historicism · Linguistics · Originality · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity