On World History: An Anthology

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Sources ix
• Foreword xi
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Introduction - On the Way to World History: Johann Gottfried Herder 3
• Part I - Principles of History -- Principles of Historiography 21
• 1 - Early Leaves of Critical Groves 23
• 2 - From Journal of My Travels 33
• 3 - From This, Too, a Philosophy of History 35
• 4 - Whether We Need to Know the End of History in Order to Write History 44
• 5 - The Nemesis of History 49
• 6 - The "Querelle Des Anciens Et Des Modernes" 53
• 7 - History 55
• 8 - Expectations for the Coming Century 59
• Part II - Mythology and Historiography 61

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Sources ix
• Foreword xi
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Introduction - On the Way to World History: Johann Gottfried Herder 3
• Part I - Principles of History -- Principles of Historiography 21
• 1 - Early Leaves of Critical Groves 23
• 2 - From Journal of My Travels 33
• 3 - From This, Too, a Philosophy of History 35
• 4 - Whether We Need to Know the End of History in Order to Write History 44
• 5 - The Nemesis of History 49
• 6 - The "Querelle Des Anciens Et Des Modernes" 53
• 7 - History 55
• 8 - Expectations for the Coming Century 59
• Part II - Mythology and Historiography 61
• 9 - On Monuments of the Distant Past 63
• 10 - On the Earliest Documents of Humankind 81
• Part III - Philosophy of History 97
• 11 - On the Character of Humankind 99
• 12 - On the Term and the Concept "Humanity" 105
• 13 - Preface to the Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Humankind 110
• 14 - The Human Being is Predisposed to the Power of Reason 116
• 15 - Specifically Human Predispositions Besides Reason 128
• 16 - The Nature of Humankind Manifests Itself in a System of Spiritual Powers 150
• 17 - The Present State of Humankind is Probably the Connecting Link Between Two Worlds 156
• 18 - The Nature of Peoples in the Vicinity of the North Pole 162
• 19 - The Nature of the Peoples Along the Asian Spine of the Earth 168
• 20 - The Nature of Peoples Favored by the Temperate Zone 173
• 21 - The Nature of the African Peoples 178
• 22 - The Nature of the Peoples on the Islands of the Tropical Zone 185
• 23 - The Nature of the Americans 187
• 24 - The Search for the Origin of Humankind and the Beginning of History on the Basis of Written Sources 195
• Part IV Reflections on World History 227
• 25 - China 229
• 26 - India 239
• 27 - General Reflections on the History of the Asian States 245
• 28 - Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea 251
• 29 - The Hebrews 257
• 30 - Egypt 264
• 31 - Further Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Humankind 270
• 32 - The Language, Mythology, and Poetry of Greece 275
• 33 - Greek Arts 281
• 34 - General Reflections on The 287
• 35 - Germanic Peoples 293
• 36 - Slavic Peoples 299
• 37 - Toward a Culture of Reason in Europe 302
• 38 - Concluding Commentary 309
• Notes 311
• Selected Bibliography 333
• Index 337
• About the Editors and the Translators 345