© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���6 | doi �0.��63/�87 ��636- � �34�3�4 journal of the philosophy of history (�0 �6) �–�5 brill.com/jph “Absolutized Logic is Ideology” Three German Perspectives on Analytic Philosophy in the 1960s and 1970s D. Timothy Goering Ruhr-University of Bochum timothygoering@gmail.com Abstract This essay wishes to probe why in the 1960s and 1970s the German historical discipline did not integrate debates promoted by analytic philosophy into its own debates about theory of history (Geschichtstheorie), even though the topics debated by both camps were strikingly similar. I concentrate on the so-called Positivism Dispute, the Ritter School and research group “Poetik und Hermeneutik” (Poetics and Hermeneutics) and show how some of the writings of analytic philosophers were received and discussed. I conclude by suggesting that most German historians and philosophers did not prin- cipally object to the assertions or philosophical arguments made by analytic philoso- phers, rather they rejected the ethical posture or intellectual deportment attributed to the practice of analytical philosophy. The ideal of systematizing the facts of the world into a coherent system was rejected on the grounds that it postulated a moral self, ill- suited to engage the modern world. Keywords analytic philosophy – Positivism Dispute – Ritter School – Poetik und Hermeneutik A first version of this paper was presented at the conference “Philosophy, Theory and History in Germany since 1945” that took place at the Ruhr-University Bochum in September 2014. I would like to express my gratitude to Mark Bevir, Jörn Rüsen, Michael Beaney, Chris Lorenz, Doris Gerber, Admir Skodo and the other participants of the conference for commenting on a draft of this paper that was presented at the conference.