The Limits of Progress and the Modern Problem of Historical Meaning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History 1
4. Part I: Awakening Ancient Historical Consciousness
5. The Territory of the Historian in Antiquity 11
6. Just Forces: Heidegger, Arendt and Antiquity 25
7. On not Being Modern: Exploring Historical Ontology with Bruno Latour 43
8. Truth, Method and the Historian’s Character: The Epistemic Virtues of Greek and Roman Historians 83
9. The Universal in the Particular: A Core Dilemma of Historicism in Antiquity 123
10. Part II: Transcending Representation and Reality
11. Teleology with a Human Face: ‘Sideshadowing’ and its Effects in Tacitus’ Treatment of Germanicus (Annals 1–2) 149
12. Minding the Gap: Mimetic Imperfection and the Historiographical Enterprise 183
13. The Life of the Biographer: Plutarch’s Presence in Sulla, Antony and Otho 207
14. Demos, Democracy and Method: Political Trust and the Science of Suspicion 231
15. Part III: Antiquating Modernity
16. Walter Benjamin and Greek Historiography 263
17. When Augustus met Adorno: Class, Mimesis and Restoring the Past 291
18. Teleology and the Experience of History 311
19. The Limits of Progress and the Modern Problem of Historical Meaning 327
20. Thucydides and the Historiography of the Future 355
21. List of Contributors 369
22. Index 371