Title: Meaning in history.
Authors: Löwith, Karl, 1897-1973
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1957
Subjects: History Philosophy
Abstract: "For centuries, the history of the western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint... The modern mind, however, is neither Christian nor pagan--and its interpretations of history are Christian in derivation and anti-Christian in result. To develop this theory, Karl Lowith--beginning with the more accessible philosophies of history in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries and working back to the Bible--analyzes the writings of outstanding historians both in antiquity and in Christian times."--From book jacket.
Contents: Introduction -- Bruckhardt -- Marx -- Hegel -- Progress versus providence : Proudhon ; Comte ; Condorcet and Turgot -- Voltaire -- Vico -- Bossuet -- Joachim -- Augustine -- Orosius -- The Biblical view of history -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix. Modern transfigurations of Joachism ; Nietzsche's revival of the doctrine of eternal recurrence.