Books on Philosophy of History

Bibliography

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• –––, 1964. Philosophy of history, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
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• –––. 2002. Historical ontology, Cambridge, MA, London: Harvard University Press.
• Hart, H. L. A., and Tony Honoré, 1959. Causation in the law, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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• –––, 1824b. The philosophy of history, New York: Dover Publications, 1956.
• –––, 1821. The Philosophy of Right, T. M. Knox (ed.), London, New York,: Oxford University Press, 1967.
• –––, 1857. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
• –––, 1807. Phenomenology of spirit, translated by A. V. Miller, edited by J. N. Findlay, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
• Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1791. Reflections on the philosophy of the history of mankind, F. E. Manuel (ed.), Classic European historians, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
• –––, 1800–1877. On world history: an anthology, H. Adler and E. A. Menze (eds.), Sources and studies in world history, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
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• Hume, David, 1754–1762. The History of England, W. B. Todd (ed.), 6 volumes, Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1983.
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• Kant, Immanuel, 1784–6. On history, L. W. Beck (ed.), Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.
• –––, 1784–5. Foundations of the metaphysics of morals and, What is enlightenment, 2nd revised edition, The Library of liberal arts, New York: Macmillan, 1990.
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• Koselleck, Reinhart, 1988 [1959]. Critique And Crisis: Enlightenment and the Parthogenesis of Modern Society, Oxford: Berg.
• –––, 2002. The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• –––, 2004. Futures and Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time, New York: Columbia University Press.
• LaCapra, Dominick, 1994. Representing the Holocaust: history, theory, trauma, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• –––, 1998. History and memory after Auschwitz, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Lattimore, Owen, 1932. Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict, New York: Macmillan.
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1709. Theodicy: essays on the goodness of God, the freedom of man, and the origin of evil, A. M. Farrer (ed.), La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1985.
• Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, 1979. Montaillou, the Promised Land of Error: The Promised Land of Error, New York: Vintage.
• Little, Daniel, 2010. New Contributions to the Philosophy of History, Dordrecht: Springer Science.
• Livi-Bacci, Massimo, 2007. A Concise History of World Population, 4th edition, Malden, MA: Blackwell.
• Mackie, J. L., 1965. Causes and Conditions. American Philosophical Quarterly, 2: 245–264.
• –––, 1974. The cement of the universe; a study of causation, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Mandelbaum, Maurice, 1971. History, man, & reason; a study in nineteenth-century thought, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
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• Maritain, Jacques, 1957. On the philosophy of history, New York: Scribner.
• Marx, Karl, 1852. The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, New York: Mondial, 2005.
• Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels, 1848. The Communist Manifesto, in The Revolutions of 1848: Political Writings (Volume 1), D. Fernbach (ed.), New York: Penguin Classics, 1974.
• Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels, 1845–49. The German ideology, 3rd revised edition. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970.
• McAdam, Doug, Sidney G. Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, 2001. Dynamics of contention, Cambridge studies in contentious politics, New York: Cambridge University Press.
• McNeill, William, 1976. Plagues and Peoples, Garden City: Doubleday.
• Mink, Louis O., 1966. “The autonomy of historical understanding”. History and Theory, 5 (1): 24–47.
• Mink, Louis O., Brian Fay, Eugene O. Golob, and Richard T. Vann (eds.), 1987. Historical understanding, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Momigliano, Arnaldo, 1990. The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography (Sather Classical Lectures), Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, 1748. The spirit of the laws, A. M. Cohler, B. C. Miller and H. Stone (eds.), Cambridge texts in the history of political thought, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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• O'Brien, Dennis, 1975. Hegel on reason and history: a contemporary interpretation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• O'Brien, P. K., and C. Keyder, 1978. Economic Growth in Britain and France, 1780–1914, London: Allen and Unwin.
• Olson, Niklas, 2012. History in the Plural: An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck, New York: Berghahn Books.
• Outhwaite, William, 1975. Understanding Social Life: The Method Called Verstehen, London: George Allen & Unwin.
• Pankakoski, Timo, 2010. “Conflict, Context, Concreteness: Koselleck and Schmitt on Concepts”. Political Theory 38(6): 749-779.
• Passmore, J. A., 1966. “The Objectivity of History”. In Philosophical Analysis and History, W. H. Dray (ed.), New York: Harper & Row.
• Pompa, Leon, 1990. Human nature and historical knowledge: Hume, Hegel, and Vico, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Ranke, Leopold von, 1881. The theory and practice of history, W. Humboldt (ed.), The European historiography series, Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.
• Ricoeur, Paul, 2000. Memory, history, forgetting, translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• Rorty, Richard, 1979. Philosophy and the mirror of nature, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 1762a. On the social contract ; Discourse on the origin of inequality ; Discourse on political economy, Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co, 1983.
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1762b. Emile, or, Treatise on education, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.
• Rowe, William T., 2007. “Owen Lattimore, Asia, and Comparative History”. Journal of Asian Studies, 66 (3): 759–786.
• Rust, Eric Charles, 1947. The Christian understanding of history, London: Lutterworth Press.
• Sabel, Charles F., and Jonathan Zeitlin, 1997. Worlds of possibility: flexibility and mass production in western industrialization (Studies in modern capitalism = Etudes sur le capitalisme moderne), Cambridge, New York: Maison des sciences de l'homme ; Cambridge University Press.
• Sachsenmaier, Dominic, 2011. Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Sahlins, Marshall David, 2004. Apologies to Thucydides: understanding history as culture and vice versa, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Said, Edward W., 1978. Orientalism, New York: Random House.
• Schama, Simon, 1991. Dead certainties: unwarranted speculations, 1st edition, New York: Knopf.
• Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 1838. Hermeneutics and criticism and other writings, A. Bowie (ed.), Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• Scriven, Michael, 1962. “Explanations, Predictions, and Laws”, in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 3, H. Feigl and G. Maxwell (eds.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Sewell, William Hamilton, 2005. Logics of history: social theory and social transformation(Chicago studies in practices of meaning), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Sherratt, Yvonne, 2006. Continental philosophy of social science: hermeneutics, genealogy, critical theory, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Skinner, G. William, 1977. “Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China”, in In The City in Late Imperial China, G. W. Skinner (ed.), Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Smith, Adam, 1776. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner (eds.), Glasgow edition of the works and correspondence of Adam Smith, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
• Spengler, Oswald, and Charles Francis Atkinson, 1934. The decline of the west, New York: A.A. Knopf.
• Taylor, Charles, 1975. Hegel, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
• –––, 1985. “Interpretation and the Sciences of Man”, in Philosophy and the Human Sciences: Philosophical Papers 2, C. Taylor (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Thompson, E. P., 1966. The making of the English working class (Vintage books, V-322), New York: Vintage Books.
• Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1934. A study of history, London: Oxford University Press.
• Tucker, Aviezer (ed.), 2009. A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Chichester, U.K., Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Vico, Giambattista, 1725. The first new science, L. Pompa (ed.), Cambridge texts in the history of political thought, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Waldron, Arthur, 1990. The Great Wall of China: from history to myth (Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions), Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Walsh, William Henry, 1960 [1951]. Philosophy of history: An introduction New York: Harper.
• Whatmore, Richard and Brian Young (eds.), 2015. A companion to intellectual history, New York: Wiley Blackwell.
• White, Hayden V., 1973. Metahistory: the historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Wittfogel, Karl, 1935. “The Stages of Development in Chinese Economic and Social History”, in The Asiatic Mode of Production: Science and Politics, A. M. Bailey and J. R. Llobera (ed.), London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 113–40, 1981.
• Wong, R. Bin, 1997. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
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