Theory and History of Historiography

Benedetto Croce

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الإنجليزية

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Complete work

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Written by the author

THEORY & HISTORY OF HISTORIOGRAPHY TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN O? BENEDETTO CROCE BY DOUGLAS AINSLIE B.A. OXON M.R.A.S. LONDON GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD. 2 y 3 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C. -i AND AT SYDNEY •*%> K / First published May 1921 P 13 °f'1b Printed at The Ballantyne Press Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. Colchester, London & Eton, England PHILOSOPHY OF THE SPIRIT IV THEORY & HISTORY OF HISTORIOGRAPHY PREFACE TO THE FIRST ITALIAN EDITION ALMOST all the writings which compose the present treatise were printed in the proceedings of ^Italian academies and in Italian reviews between 1912 and 19 13. Since they formed part of a general scheme, their collection in book form presented no difficulties. This volume has appeared in German under the title Zur Theorie und Geschichte der Historio- graphie (Tubingen, Mohr, 19 15). On publishing in book form in Italian, I made a few slight alterations here and there and added three brief essays, placed as an appendix to the first part. On publishing in book form in Italian, I made a few slight alterations here and there and added three brief essays, placed as an appendix to the first part. The description of the volume as forming the fourth of my Philosophy of the Spirit requires some explanation ; for it does not really form a new systematic part of the philosophy, and is rather to be looked upon as a deepen- ing and amplification of the theory of historiography, already outlined in certain chapters of the second part, namely the Logic. But the problem of historical com- prehension is that toward which pointed all my inves- tigations as to the modes of the spirit, their distinction and unity, their truly concrete life, which is devel

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