Resumen de Sobre las huellas de Ranke
One of the ways to understand the "historiographic empirism" that conditions us is to retrace the path Ranke had to walk and to follow his steps beside authors like Hans-Georg Gadamer and Charles Taylor. This essay is the result of a research that intends to trace some of this historian's steps, the "father of scientific historiography", in order to demonstrate in which extent Romanticism modeled some of the ideals preached by the modern reception of Ranke, such as: the ideas of objectivity and criticism of the sources, the distinction between fact research and Historiography and that of History and Philosophy. By abandoning Hegel, Ranke lost the opportunity to reach a deeper understanding of some of the comunicative implications of any historiography.
