Heinrich Heine, Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland [On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany]

Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Domains

History/ Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy (any)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1834

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Commentary / Criticism (literary)
Historical representation

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Originally published as a series of articles in the French journal

Revue des deux mondes

, the essay

Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland

[

On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany

, 1834] is Heine’s most systematic theoretical work. Written in Paris in 1833/34, the essay is a meditation on the end of a period symbolized by Goethe and Hegel and the beginning of a new era. A first of its kind, the essay initiates intellectual history as a historiographic alternative to the Historical School’s normative revisionism, whose “monumentalism” – as Nietzsche was later to dub it – was supposed to challenge the antiquarian approaches of more traditional history writing. A critical reflection on history and its constructions, Heine’s essay rewrites the…

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Citation: Goetschel, Willi. "Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 January 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11179, accessed 23 November 2024.]