This anthology charts the intellectual foundations of historical study over the past 250 years. The book introduces students to the critical developments in philosophy, literature and cultural studies which are increasingly being incorporated into historical study.

This important book charts the development of philosophical thinking about history over the past 250 years, combining extracts from key texts with new explanatory and critical discussion. The book is designed to make the work of thinkers such as Hume, Herder, Hegel, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Western philosophy.An introductory section is followed by nine further chapters exploring contrasting schools of thought. The volume reveals the origins of contemporary trends in the discipline and relates wider philosophical reflections to the study of history itself. It also points to connections between philosophy of history and literary and cultural theory which have developed in recent decades.

1. On Philosophizing about History.
2. Enlightenment.
David Hume (1711-1776).
Condoret, Marquis de (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas Caritat) (1743-1794).
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
3. Classical Historicism.
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803).
Wilhelm von Humbolt (1767-1835).
Friedrick Scheiermacher.
Georg Wilhelm.
Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831).
Leopold von Ranke. (1795-1886).
4. Positivism.
Auguste Comte. (1798-1897).
John Stewart Mill. (1806-1873).
Henry Thomas Buckle. (1821-1862).
5. Suprahistory.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860).
Sdegreeren Kierkegaard (1813-1855).
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).
6. Secular Historicism.
Wilhelm Diltherly (1831-1911).
Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915).
Henrich Rickert (1863-1936).
Georg Simmel (1858-1918).
Max Weber (1864-1920).
7. Hermeneutics.
Edmund Husser. (1859-1938).
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976).
Hans Georg Gadamer (1900).
Paul Ricoeur (1913-).
8. Kulturkritik.
Karl Marx (1818-1883).
Georg Luk cs (1885-1971).
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940).
Jrgen Habermas (1929- ).
9. Narrativism.
Cluade LUvi-Strauss. (1908- ).
Roland Barthes (1915-1980).
Hayden White (1928- ).
Paul Ricoeur (1913- ).
10. Posthistory.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984).
Jean Baudrillard (1929- ).
Francis Fukuyama (1952- ).
Index.