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Iggers, Georg Gerson was born on December 7, 1926 in Hamburg, Germany. Son of Alfred G. and Lizzie (Minden) Iggers. came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1949.
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There exists an extensive literature on the history of the Saint Simonian movement as well as on various phases of Saint-Simo nian economic, literary, aesthetic, feminist, and pacifist thought and activity. However, until the first edition of the present work, no larger study had undertaken an examination of the important topic of the political thought of the Saint-Simonians. This book attempts a systematic analysis of the political ideas of the Saint Simonians in the crucial years between 1828 and 1832 during which the Saint-Simonians, briefly organized as a well structured movement, formulated the diverse ideas of their master into a systematic doctrine. These were also the years of the greatest influence of the Saint-Simonians on the European public. After 1832 the Saint-Simonian movement dissolved into an informal fellowship of likeminded individuals and the tightly knit Saint Simonian doctrine into a set of loosely related ideas. This study uses as its main sources the rich collection of lectures, sermons, pamphlets, and newspapers published by the Saint-Simonians between 1828 and 1832. Except for minor corrections and an expanded bibliography, the present second edition is identical with the first. I have purposely eliminated the phrase, "A Chapter in the Intellectual History of Totalitarianism," from the subtitle.
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In this book, now published in 10 languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II. The discipline's greatest challenge may have come in the last two decades, when postmodern ideas forced a reevaluation of the relationship of historians to their subject and questioned the very possibility of objective history. Iggers sees the contemporary discipline as a hybrid, moving away from a classical, macrohistorical approach toward microhistory, cultural history, and the history of everyday life. The new epilogue, by the author, examines the movement away from postmodernism towards new social science approaches that give greater attention to cultural factors and to the problems of globalization.
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The present book constitutes an attempt to contribute to the study of the intellectual roots of modem totalitarianism. It is not intended to duplicate the several works on the history of the Saint-Simonian movement, including the excellent study by Charlety, or the large periodical literature on various phases of Saint-Simonian economic, literary, aesthetic, feminist, and pacifist thought. Rather it analyzes systematically for the first time the political ideas of the Saint-Simonians and their social and cultural implications. In contrast to previous studies, this book utilizes extensively the periodical literature of the period 1829-1832 during which the political ideas of the movement underwent their greatest development. This study is an outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation written at the University of Chicago. Unlike the dissertation, this book attempts to study Saint-Simonian political ideas within the framework of the intellectual history of the early nineteenth century. I wish to give particular thanks to the members of my doctoral committee, Professors Louis Gottschalk, James L.
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This is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography. It analyzes the basic theoretical assumptions of the German historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relates these assumptions to political thought and action. The German national tradition of historiography had its beginnings in the reaction against the Enlightenment and the French Revolution of 1789. This historiography rejected the rationalistic theory of natural law as universally valid and held that all human values must be understood within the context of the historical flux. But it maintained at the same time the Lutheran doctrine that existing political institutions had a rational basis in the will of God, though only a few of these historians were unqualified conservatives. Most argued for liberal institutions within the authoritarian state, but considered that constitutional liberties had to be subordinated to foreign policy – a subordination that was to have tragic results. Mr. Iggers first defines Historismus or historicism and analyzes its origins. Then he traces the transformation of German historical thought from Herder’s cosmopolitan culture-oriented nationalism to exclusive state-centered nationalism of the War of Liberation and of national unification. He considers the development of historicism in the writings of such thinkers as von Humboldt, Ranke, Dilthey, Max Weber, Troeltsch, and Meinecke; and he discusses the radicalization and ultimate disintegration of the historicist position, showing how its inadequacies contributed to the political débâcle of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism. No one who wants to fully understand the political development of national Germany can neglect this study.
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In four impressively researched essays Georg Iggers recounts the transformation of historical studies in Europe during the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on the historiography of the past fifteen years. Although the book does survey a broad area of contemporary historical thought, it is primarily a careful analytical examination of the methodological and theoretical reorientation of certain influential European historians. The first essay discusses the emergence at German Universities during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of the concept of history as a scientific discipline, distinct from the classical tradition of literary history, and the later broad acceptance of this mode of Enquiry in the Western world. Against this background Mr. Iggers then considers the challenge to this mode of the political, social, and intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century, especially after World War II. The three essays following examine important attempts to develop alternate paradigms for historical study: the French historians of the Annales tradition; the German political historians of the 1960s; the various Marxist historians of France, Poland, East Germany, and Great Britain. In despite of the frequent insistence by philosophers and theorists of history that history is not a science in contemporary terms, historians themselves have striven in recent years to strengthen the quantitative aspects of historical study, moving away from traditional patterns of writing and adopting methods and concepts from the systematic social sciences. Mr. Iggers’ book is an excellent introduction to these contemporary changes in historiography, and in its comparative analyses itself makes a contribution to historical studies.
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Iggers, Georg Gerson was born on December 7, 1926 in Hamburg, Germany. Son of Alfred G. and Lizzie (Minden) Iggers. came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1949.
Bachelor, University Richmond, 1944. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Richmond, 2001. AM, University Chicago, 1945.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1951. Postgraduate, New School Social Research, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Philander Smith College, 2002.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Technische University, Darmstadt, Germany, 2006. Dr.h.c, Technische University.
Instructor University Akron, Ohio, 1948-1950. Associate professor Philander Smith College, Little Rock, 1950-1957. From associate professor to professor Dillard University, New Orleans, 1957-1963.
Associate professor Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1963-1965. Professor history State University of New York, Buffalo, since 1965, distinguished professor, 1978-1997, chairman, 1981-1984, distinguished professor emeritus, since 1997. Member Conference Group Central European History, vice chairman, 1989-1990, chairman, 1990-1991.
Visiting professor University Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1956-1957, 64, University Rochester, 1970-1971, University Leipzig, Germany, 1992. Visiting associate professor Tulane University, New Orleans, 1958-1960, 63. Visiting scholar Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, 1991, Forschungsschwerpunkt zeithistorische Studien, Potsdam, Germany, 1993.
Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center International Scholars, Washington, 1993-1994. Visiting professor Aarhus (Denmark) University, 1998, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, 1998, University New England (Australia), 1999, International Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, 2000, University Vienna, 2002.
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Board directors, counselor Draft and Military Counseling Center, Buffalo, 1967-1989. Board dirs.Citizens Council Human Relations, Buffalo, 1965-1995. Chairman education, executive committees National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Little Rock, 1951-1956, chairman education committee, New Orleans, 1957-1963, board dirs, Buffalo, since 1965, chairman education committee, 1965-1975, co-chairman health committee, 1979-1985.
Member International Commission Historiography (vice president 1980-1995, president 1995-2000, executive committee 1980-2005), American History Association, Academy of Sciences of German Democratic Republic (foreign member 1990-1992).
Married Wilma Abeles, December 23, 1948. Children: Jeremy, Daniel, Karl Jonathan.