PART I. GRECO-ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
§1. Theocratic History and Myth 14
§2. The Creation of Scientific History by Herodotus 17
§3. Anti-historical Tendency of Greek Thought 20
§4. Greek Conception of History’s Nature and Value 21
§5. Greek Historical Method and its Limitations 25
§6. Herodotus and Thucydides 28
§7. The Hellenistic Period 31
§8. Polybius 33
§9. Livy and Tacitus 36
§10. Character of Greco-Roman Historiography: (i) Humanism 40
§11. (ii) Substantialism 42
PART II. THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY
§1. The Leaven of Christian Ideas 46
§2. Characteristics of Christian Historiography 49
§3. Medieval Historiography 52
§4. The Renaissance Historians 57
§5. Descartes 59
§6. Cartesian Historiography 61
§7. Anti-Cartesianism: (i) Vico 63
§8. (ii) Locke, Berkeley, and Hume 71
§9. The Enlightenment 76
§10. The Science of Human Nature 81
PART III. THE THRESHOLD OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY
§1. Romanticism 86
§2. Herder 88
§3. Kant 93
§4. Schiller 104
§5. Fichte 106
§6. Schelling 111
§7. Hegel 113
§8. Hegel and Marx 122
§9. Positivism 126
PART IV. SCIENTIFIC HISTORY
§1. England 134
I. Bradley 134
II. Bradley’s Successors 142
III. Late Nineteenth-century Historiography 143
IV. Bury 147
V. Oakeshott 151
VI. Toynbee 159
§2. Germany 165
I. Windelband 165
II. Rickert 168
III. Simmel 170
IV. Dilthey 171
V. Meyer 176
VI. Spengler 181
§3. France 183
I. Ravaisson’s Spiritualism 183
II. Lachelier’s Idealism 185
III. Bergson’s Evolutionism 187
IV. Modern French Historiography 189
§4. Italy 190
I. Croce’s Essay of 1893 190
II. Croce’s Second Position: the Logic 194
III. History and Philosophy 196
IV. History and Nature 197
V. Croce’s Final Position: the Autonomy of History
PART V. EPILEGOMENA
§1. Human Nature and Human History [1936] 205
§2. The Historical Imagination [1935] 231
§3. Historical Evidence [1939] 249
§4. History as Re-enactment of Past Experience [1936] 282
§5. The Subject-matter of History [1936] 302
§6. History and Freedom [1939] 315
§7. Progress as created by Historical Thinking [1936] 321
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