Why History?: A History

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Why History?: A History
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Introduction
	On ‘Modern Historical Consciousness’
	Continuity and Change in Justifications for History
1: Classical History between Epic and Rhetoric
	Introduction
	Genealogy, Ethnography, and Historical Consciousness
	Rhetoric, Purpose, Truth
	Useful and Pleasurable History
	From Greek to Roman Historiography
	Philosophy, Poetry, History: A Greek in Rome
	Roman Historiography in the Late Republic
	History under Monarchy
	Pre- and Anti-Christian Influences
2: History, Faith, Fortuna
	Introduction
	Classical–Christian Fusion
	Christianity and Judaism
	Early Christian Historiography
	Christian Philosophy of History
	On Causation: Determinism and Human Agency
3: The ‘Middle Age’
	Introduction
	Annals and Ancestry
	Exemplarity, Allegory, and the Presence of the Past
	Periodization and the Conceptualization of Change
	Theology, Religious Hermeneutics, and History as Communion
	Socio-Economic Change and the Function of Genealogies
	History and Developments in Political Identity
	‘Others’ Present and Past
4: Renaissances and Reformations
	Introduction
	Re-Encounters
	Romans, Greeks, Goths
	Developments in Source Criticism?
	Changed Circumstances, Contested Purposes
	The Return of Similitudo Temporum
	Sixteenth-Century French Historiography
	Modern Contextualization?
	Montaigne
	Church, State, and Historianship: A Comparative Perspective
	Ecclesiastical History and Source Criticism
	History in the Scientific Seventeenth Century
5: Society, Nature, Emancipation
	Introduction
	Prelude: Bolingbroke and Vico
	The French Enlightenment
	The Scottish Enlightenment
	The German Enlightenment and Early Romanticism
	Hegel
	Marx
6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis
	Introduction
	Nationalism, Romanticism, Whiggery
	Historicism and Developmental Thought
	Alternatives to the Dominant German Model in the 1860s
	Reactions to Historicism
	New Philosophies of Historical ‘Neutrality’ from the Later Nineteenth Century
	‘Progressive’ History
	The Decline of Historicism and the Rise of German Social History
7: Turns to the Present
	Introduction
	Structures and Superstructures
	Structures and Events
	From Interwar to Post-War
	Social History, Sociology, Modernization
	Social History, Experience, Identity
	Language and Culture
	Theory and History
	New New Histories
8: Justifying History Today
	Introduction
	History as Speculative Philosophy
	History as Method
	Knowledge and Human Interests
	History as Practical Lesson
	History as Moral Lesson
	History as Travel, History as Tolerance?
	History as Therapy
	Varieties of Emancipatory History
	History as Emancipation III
	History as Emancipation II
	History as Emancipation I
	History as Identity
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index