8. Philosophising History: Distinguishing History as a Discipline

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. General Editors’ Preface vii
4. Introduction: Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century 1
5. 1. The New Spinozism 13
6. 2. The Absolute in German Romanticism and Idealism 29
7. 3. The Question of Romanticism 47
8. 4. The Hermeneutic Turn in Philosophy of Nature in the Nineteenth Century 69
9. 5. Idealism and Naturalism in the Nineteenth Century 89
10. 6. Darwinism and Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century: The ‘Whole of Metaphysics’? 111
11. 7. Faith and Knowledge 128
12. 8. Philosophising History: Distinguishing History as a Discipline 145
13. 9. Genealogy as Immanent Critique: Working from the Inside 168
14. 10. Embodiment: Conceptions of the Lived Body from Maine de Biran to Bergson 187
15. 11. The Unconscious in the German Philosophy and Psychology of the Nineteenth Century 204
16. 12. Individuality, Radical Politics and the Metaphor of the Machine 223
17. 13. The Rise of the Social 242
18. 14. Theory and Practice of Revolution in the Nineteenth Century 259
19. 15. Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: From Absolute Subjectivity to Superhumanity 278
20. 16. Repetition and Recurrence: Putting Metaphysics in Motion 294
21. 17. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy in the Twentieth Century and Beyond 314
22. Notes on contributors 330
23. Index 333