导读
INTRODUCTION
1.The Philosophy of History
2.History's Nature, Object, Method, and Value
3.The Problem of Parts Ⅰ--Ⅳ
PART Ⅰ GRECO-ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
1.Theocratic History and Myth
2.The Creation of Scientific History by Herodotus
3.Anti-historical Tendency of Greek Thought
4.Greek Conception of History's Nature and Value
5.Greek Historical Method and its Limitations
6.Herodotus and Thucydides
7.The Hellenistic Period
8.Polybius
9.Livy and Tacitus
10.Character of Greco-Roman Historiography: (ⅰ) Humanism
11.Character of Greco-Roman Historiography: (ⅱ) Substantialism
PART Ⅱ THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY
1.The Leaven of Christian Ideas
2.Characteristics of Christian Historiography
3.Medieval Historiography
4.The Renaissance Historians
5.Descartes
6.Cartesian Historiography
7.Anti-Cartesianism: (ⅰ) Vico
8.Anti-Cartesianism: (ⅱ) Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
9.The Enlightenment
10.The Science of Human Nature
PART Ⅲ THE THRESHOLD OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY
1.Romanticism
2.Herder
3.Kant
4.Schiller
5.Fichte
6.Schelling
7.Hegel
8.Hegel and Marx
9.Positivism
PART Ⅳ SCIENTIFIC HISTORY
1.England
(ⅰ)Bradley
(ⅱ)Bradley's Successors
(ⅲ)Late Nineteenth-century Historiography
(ⅳ)Bury
(ⅴ)Oakeshott
(ⅵ)Toynbee
2.Germany
(ⅰ)Windelband
(ⅱ)Rickert
(ⅲ)Simmel
(ⅳ)Dilthey
(ⅴ)Meyer
(ⅵ)Spengler
3.France
(ⅰ)Ravaisson's Spiritualism
(ⅱ)Lachelier's Idealism
(ⅲ)Bergson's Evolutionism
(ⅳ)Modern French Historiography
4.Italy
(ⅰ)Croce's Essay of
(ⅱ)Croce's Second Position: the Logic
(ⅲ)History and Philosophy
(ⅳ)History and Nature
(ⅴ)Croce's Final Position: the Autonomy of History
PART V EPILEGOMENA
1.Human Nature and Human History
(ⅰ)The Science of Human Nature
(ⅱ)The Field of Historical Thought
(ⅲ)History as Knowledge of Mind
(ⅳ)Conclusions
2.The Historical Imagination
3.Historical Evidence
Introduction
(ⅰ)History as Inferential
(ⅱ)Different Kinds of Inference
(ⅲ)Testimony
(ⅳ)Scissors and Paste
(ⅴ)Historical Inference
(ⅵ)Pigeon-holing
(ⅶ)Who Killed John Doe?
(ⅷ)The Question
(ⅸ)Statement and Evidence
(ⅹ)Question and Evidence
4.History as Re-enactment of Past Experience
5.The Subject-matter of History
6.History and Freedom
7.Progress as created by Historical Thinking
NOTES
术语汇编与简释

《历史的观念》是英国哲学家科林伍德的代表作。科林伍德提出的“一切历史都是思想史，是史学家心灵中重演过去的思想”之著名论断迫使哲学家们将目光聚焦到由历史的存在而造成的认识论问题，表明怎样可以通过历史的探讨来阐释和解决哲学问题。作者试图将史学与哲学结合起来。将历史的生命延续到此时此刻，通过论证阐明对历史的分析和判断是历史学家的自律。科林伍德对分析的历史哲学的发展做出了伟大贡献，他的真知灼见可供学人借鉴。