Have historians engaged with philosophers of history (Hegel, Foucault, etc.) and, if so, did it affect the practice of history?

by ben_jl
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Yes definitely. Foucault is very influential today in history generally and even more influential in certain areas like legal history... His idea of the panopticon is widely cited for instance. His ideas have definitely met with a lot of resistance from some schools of historians.

Foucault himself wrote "genealogies" (a la Nietzsche) including the birth of the clinic and the history of sexuality.

Hegels influence can certainly be felt through Marx; Marxist historians continue writing to this day. Influential examples include ep Thompson, clr James, Ellen mieksins wood, Angela Davis, and mike Davis.

An interesting is the French writer Michel de certeau whose history of the Loudun witch hunt didn't "write" a narrative so much as construct the incident through primary sources. De certeau was in conversation with theorists like Foucault and badiou.