In this article I revisit nineteenth‐century debates over historical objectivity and the political functions of historiography. I focus on two influential contributors to these debates: Leopold von Ranke and Johann Gustav Droysen. In their takes on objectivity and subjectivity, impartiality and political engagement, I reveal diametrically opposed solutions to shared concerns: how can historians reveal history to be meaningful without resorting to speculative philosophy? And how can they produce a knowledge that is relevant to the present when the project of “exemplary” history has been abandoned?

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方法和含义：对历史学家的纪律态度进行排位和提罗森

在本文中，我将回顾19世纪关于历史客观性和史学的政治功能的辩论。我将集中讨论这些辩论的两个有影响力的贡献者：利奥波德·冯·兰克和约翰·古斯塔夫·德罗森。在他们关于客观性和主观性，公正性和政治参与的论述中，我揭示了对共同关注的截然相反的解决方案：历史学家如何在不诉诸投机哲学的情况下揭示历史是有意义的？当“典范”历史计划被放弃时，他们如何产生与当前相关的知识？