Meaning in history
"For centuries, the history of the western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint ... The modern mind, however, is neither Christian nor pagan--and its interpretations of history are Christian in derivation and anti-Christian in result. To develop this theory, Karl Lowith--beginning with the more accessible philosophies of history in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries and working back to the Bible--analyzes the writings of outstanding historians both in antiquity and in Christian times."--Jacket
Print Book, English, [1957, ©1949]
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, [1957, ©1949]
257 pages ; 21 cm
392744
Introduction
Bruckhardt
Marx
Hegel
Progress versus providence : Proudhon ; Comte ; Condorcet and Turgot
Voltaire
Vico
Bossuet
Joachim
Augustine
Orosius
The Biblical view of history
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix. Modern transfigurations of Joachism ; Nietzsche's revival of the doctrine of eternal recurrence