An Interpretation of Universal History
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Translation of: Una interpretación de la historia universal. En torno a Toynbee.
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
Copyright date: 1973
Notes: Series of lectures on A. J. Toynbee's "A Study of History" given at The Institute of Humanities in Madrid in 1948-1949.
Table of contents: title: Preliminary Note
pagenum: 7; label: I
title: Toynbee's careers. International information. Communication. Experience of life. The Greco-Roman decline.
pagenum: 11; label: II
title: The architectonic quality of Toynbee's work. What is a leaf? The history of England. Complete reality. Western society: its limits.
pagenum: 37; label: III
title: The "case" of England. Review. The Empire. The Mediterranean and the limes.
pagenum: 56; label: IV
title: Domi et militiae. The Roman Empire, an abnormal state. A halt: the Institute of the Humanities and the science of history.
pagenum: 77; label: V
title: "Naturalities" and "humanities." About the realities which make up history. Imperium and imperator before the wavering glance of the historian. Illegitimacy.
pagenum: 95; label: VI
title: Stages in the origin of the state. The evolution of the Roman state. The end of legitimacy. The symbol of the British past.
pagenum: 114; label: VII
title: Bullfights. Review. Enrichment: self-absorbed and open; the scaling magnitude. Parenthesis: the Tibetization of Spain in the seventeenth century and the end of Madrid's century.
pagenum: 150; label: VIII
title: Riches and the origin of reason. Modernity and illegitimacy: Spanish examples. Rome's passage from the self-absorbed life to the open life. The Right; the intellectual, the prophet. Amos. "Intoxication" through victory. Stoicism and the sun god. The civil wars. The imperial state. The flrst help for "illegitimacy."
pagenum: 170; label: IX
title: Revision of the itinerary. The Right and the Just. Crete. The "universal influence." Civilization and "primitive society." The spontaneous civilizations. Challenge-and response.
pagenum: 200; label: X
title: Review of the previous lesson. The original civilizations. The race factor. The genius of the English. Racism. The empirical method and pure ideas. Challenge-and-response. Man, a fantastic animal.
pagenum: 224; label: XI
title: Mr. Toynvee's pieties and the "Numantism" of England. Challenge-and-response continued. General principles and their complement. Two theorems. The human being's lack of definition. Facilities and difficulties. Basic reality. Technique and happiness.
pagenum: 250; label: XII
title: The trajectory followed. The substance. Being and the reform of intelligence. The superficial character of French existentialism. The three great concepts in Toynbee's thought. The paradox of the Roman state. Roman Law and concord. Modern law and the desiderata. The parable of the man and the bear.
pagenum: 278