A Theory of History

Agnes Heller

Part 1: Historicity 1. The Stages of Historical Consciousness 2. Present, Past and Future 3. Everyday Historical consciousness as the Foundation of Historiorgraphy and the Philosophy of History Part 2: Historiography as episthémé 4. Introductory Remarks 5. Past, Present and Future in Historiography 6. Values in Historiography 7. Moral Judgments in Historiography 8. The Concrete Norms of Historiographical Research 9. Theory and Method in Historiography 10. The Organizing Principles of Historiography 11. The Explanatory Principles of Historiography 12. The Orientative Principles of Historiography 13. The ‘Higher’ and the Applied Theory Part 3: Sense and Truth in History or Philosophy of History 14. The Specificity of Philosophy of History 15. The Notion of Universal Development as the Basic Category of the Philosophy of History 16. Universal Historical Laws: Goal, Law and Necessity 17. Holism and Individualism 18. The Philosophy of History and the Idea of Socialism Part 4: Introduction to a Theory of History 19. History Retrieved? 20. Is Progress An Illusion? 21. The Need for Utopia 22. Some Remarks About the Sense of Historical Existence