submit that not analytical History of Ideas but only synthetic Geistes-geschichte (which untranslatable term I do not consider to be properlyrendered by " History of Ideas, " with its plural unintegrated into a unity) 1can explain historical events. It is as a criticism of his general methodologythat this paper is primarily intended; but I have chosen to concentrate onthis particular article of Professor Lovejoy's because the contemporary sig-nificance of the conclusions drawn therein offers a singular opportunity totest the soundness of his method.The first step taken by
The debate on hitlerism, by Spitzer and Lovejoy. Can the romantic epoch in any way, be connected to the totalitarian regime of Hitler?