Introduction : History and philosophy -- I : The heritage of historicism -- The historian in a changing world / Geoffrey Barraclough -- The dream / Wilhelm Dilthey -- History and chronicle / Benedetto Croce -- History as a system / José Ortega y Gasset -- The historical imagination / R.G. Collingwood -- II : Clio -- science or muse? -- What are historians trying to do? / Henri Pierenne -- The unit of historical study / Arnold J. Toynbee -- History, science and fiction / Arnold J. Toynbee -- What are historical facts? / Carl L. Becker -- Written history as an act of faith / Charles A. Beard -- Relativism in history / Raymond Aron -- Historical judgements / John Dewey -- Present standpoints and past history / Arthur O. Lovejoy -- Can history be objective? / Morton White -- The logic of historical analysis / Ernest Nagel -- Can history be objective? / W.H. Walsh -- III : History and morality -- Moral judgments in history / Herbert Butterfield -- Historical inevitability / Sir Isaiah Berlin -- On fortune and misfortune in history / Jacob Burckhardt -- IV : The meaning of history -- The historian's purpose : history and metahistory / Alan Bullock -- Has history any meaning? / Karl Popper -- The diversity and unity of history / Reinhold Niebuhr -- The unity of history / Karl Jaspers.
