Abstract
Discusses the work and theories of Italian theoretical historian Benedetto Croce and Swiss historiographer Jacob Burckhardt. Notes the greater interest in Burckhardt's work in the last decades of the 20th century, considers the similarities and differences between the two men's work, and analyzes their theories concerning history, historiography, and the historical. Comments on the problem of historical method and the relevance of philosophy in historical discourse, examines Croce and Burckhardt's approach to the questions of historical relativism and moral judgment, and contrasts Burckhardt's notion of the strangeness and "otherness" of the historical with Croce's idea of change in the context of historicism and the existence of historical paradigms.