Storia Storiografia Politica

Abstract

The book contains selected papers by L. v. Ranke, most of them for the first time translated into Italian. In his Preface F. Tessitore explains Ranke’s role in the history of culture. The Introduction of editor and translator sheds light upon the link between Ranke’s philosophy of State and the theory of astetics of Goethe’s and Kant’s era. The focus on this relation enables the reader to be aware of the meaning of Ranke’s famous “obiectivism”.