- Leonard Krieger
Leonard Krieger (1918-1990) was an American historian of modern Europe, particularly known as an author on Germany. He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of
historicism . He has been called "the most intellectual historian in the United States during the Cold War" [Aubrey Neal, "How Skeptics Do Ethics: A Brief History of the Late Modern Linguistic Turn" (2007), p. 186.] .Works
*"The German Idea of Freedom" (1957)
*"The Politics of Discretion" (1965)
*"Ranke: The Meaning of History" (1977)
*"Time's Reasons" (1989)
*"Ideas and Events: Professing History" (1992)References
*Carl E. Schorske, "Obituary: Leonard Krieger 1918-1990", Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1991), pp. 340
*Malachi Haim Hacohen, "Review: Leonard Krieger: Historicization and Political Engagement in Intellectual History", History and Theory, Vol. 35, No. 1 (February 1996), pp. 80-130Notes
External links
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3D81126E532BC4852DFB66F958A Obituary, "New York Times", 13 October 1990]
* [http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1433/Krieger.pdf Memoir by Carl E. Schorske (PDF)]
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