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• Daniel Guérin

  French historian, anarchist-communist activist, and political writer (1904–1988); author of La Lutte des classes sous la Première République (2 vols., 1946), Fascisme et grand capital (1936), Où va le peuple américain? (1950), and many wor…

• Johan Huizinga

  Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945), best known for Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (The Waning / Autumntide of the Middle Ages, 1919) and Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture (1938). In the wiki he enters as the central interlo…

• Johann Gustav Droysen

  German historian (1808–1884), author of the Historik (lectures on the theory of history) and the historian who named "Hellenism." In Gadamer's Ch 3 he is "the acute methodologist" who advances on Ranke yet, like him, ends in "aesthetic-her…

• Leopold von Ranke

  German historian (1795–1886), the founding figure of the modern historical school and of source-critical historiography ("how it actually was," wie es eigentlich gewesen). In Gadamer's Ch 3 he is the exemplar of the historical worldview wh…