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This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study.

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. . . seminal . . .
—Dublin Review of Books

Table of Contents

Foreword, "All You've Got Is History," by Michael S. Roth
Preface to the Fortieth-Anniversary Edition
Preface
Introduction. The Poetics of History
Part One: The Received Tradition
1. The Historical Imagination between Metaphor and Irony
2. Hegel
Part Two: Four Kinds of "Realism" in Nineteenth-Century Historical Writing
3. Michelet
4. Ranke
5. Tocqueville
6. Burckhardt
Part Three: The Repudiation of "Realism" in Late Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of History
7. Historical Consciousness and the Rebirth of Philosophy of History
8. Marx
9. Nietzsche
10. Croce
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 24 February 2015
      ISBN-13 9781421415604
      978-1421415604
      ISBN-10 1421415607
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary theory History European history Politics, Philosophy & Society Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study.

      Trade Review
      . . . seminal . . .
      —Dublin Review of Books

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, "All You've Got Is History," by Michael S. Roth
      Preface to the Fortieth-Anniversary Edition
      Preface
      Introduction. The Poetics of History
      Part One: The Received Tradition
      1. The Historical Imagination between Metaphor and Irony
      2. Hegel
      Part Two: Four Kinds of "Realism" in Nineteenth-Century Historical Writing
      3. Michelet
      4. Ranke
      5. Tocqueville
      6. Burckhardt
      Part Three: The Repudiation of "Realism" in Late Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of History
      7. Historical Consciousness and the Rebirth of Philosophy of History
      8. Marx
      9. Nietzsche
      10. Croce
      Conclusion
      Bibliography
      Index

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