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Table of Contents

Last Name
LÖWITH
First Name
Karl
Title
Meaning in History
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1949
Group
MOH1 MOH2
Comments
Lists 10 Philosophies of History and compares them with the Biblical View of History.

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INTRODUCTION

  1. Burckhardt
  2. Marx
  3. Hegel
  4. Progress versus Providence
    1. Proudhon
    2. Comte
    3. Condorcet and Turgot
  5. Voltaire
  6. Vico
  7. Bossuet
  8. Joachim
  9. Augustine
  10. Orosius
  11. The Biblical View of History

CONCLUSION

EPILOGUE

APPENDIX

  1. Modern Transfigurations of Joachism
  2. Nietzsche's Revival of the Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

INDEX