Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 9
3. List of Illustrations 11
4. Foreword 15
5. Referring to Huizinga 17
6. 1. Writing History in Times of Loss: A New Johan Huizinga 19
7. 2 ‘The Tyranny of the Present’ 65
8. 3 An Irretrievably Lost Past 105
9. 4 The Future, a Machine 145
10. 5 The Delay of the ‘Grotian Hour’ 183
11. 6 The Looming Loss of a Democratic Order 227
12. Conclusion: In the Image of Loss 271
13. Bibliography 281
14. Index of Names 295