Metahistory

Metahistory
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Poetics of History
ONE: THE RECEIVED TRADITION: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
	1 The Historical Imagination between Metaphor and Irony
	2 Hegel: The Poetics of History and the Way beyond Irony
TWO: Four Kinds of “REALISM” IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORICAL WRITING
	3 Michelet: Historical Realism as Romance
	4 Ranke: Historical Realism as Comedy
	5 Tocqueville: Historical Realism as Tragedy
	6 Burckhardt: Historical Realism as Satire
THREE: THE REPUDIATION OF “REALISM” IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
	7 Historical Consciousness and the Rebirth of Philosophy of History
	8 Marx: The Philosophical Defense of History in the Metonymical Mode
	9 Nietzsche: The Poetic Defense of History in the Metaphorical Mode
	10 Croce: The Philosophical Defense of History in the Ironic Mode
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX