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History as the story of liberty
Croce, Benedetto, 1866-1952.
Year: 1941.
Publisher:  W.W. Norton. 
© Allen %26 Unwin
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Frontmatter
Foreword
PART I
I. What Makes a History Book History
II. Truth in History Books
III. The Unity of an Historical Work
IV. The Historical Meaning of Necessity
V. Historical Knowledge Considered as Complete Knowledge
VI. The Categories of History and the Forms of the Spirit
VII. The Distinction Between Action and Thought
VIII. Historiography as Liberation from History
IX. History Considered as a Premise of the Struggle Between Value and Non‐value
X. History as Action
XI. Moral Activity
XII. History as the History of Liberty
PART II HISTORICISM AND ITS HISTORY
I. Its Own Character and the Beginning of Its Own Age
II. Historicism Complete and Incomplete
III. The Anecdote
IV. The Imagination‒The Anecdote and Historiography
V. Philology, History and Philosophy
VI. The "Philosophy of History"
VII. Philosophy as an Antiquated Idea
VIII. The Identity of the Judgment of Events with the Knowledge of Their Genesis
IX. Objections
PART III HISTORIOGRAPHY AND POLITICS
I. The So‐called Irrational in History
II. Political Historiography
III. Historians and Politicians
IV. Historiography--Partisan and Non-partisan
V. The Preparatory and Non‐determinate Character of Historiography as Regards Action
VI. The Need for Historical Knowledge where Action is Concerned
Two Marginal Notes
PART IV HISTORIOGRAPHY AND MORALS
I. Moral Judgment in Historiography
II. Psychological Historiography
III. Religious Historiography
IV. Ethico‐Political Historiography and Economic Facts
V. Political Parties and their Historical Character
VI. Strength and Violence, Reason and Impulse
VII. Moral Life and Economic Ordinances
VIII. Ideal Perpetuity and Historical Formations
IX. Religious Piety and Religion
X. History and Utopia
PART V PROSPECTS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY
I. History Does Not Repeat Itself and Does Not Preserve Itself Intact
II. Shades of Agnosticism, Mysticism and Scepticism, and the Light of Historical Truth
III. Humanity in Fragments and Integral Humanity
IV. History to be Written and History Not to be Written
V. Historiography and Naturalism
VI. Nature as History, not as History Written by Us
VII. Prehistory and History
VIII. Chronological and Historical Epochs
IX. Natural Species and Historical Formations
X. Poetry and Historiography
XI. Historicism and Humanism
Index
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Title: History as the story of liberty : Benedetto Croce ; translated from the Italian by Sylvia Sprigge.
Author: Croce, Benedetto, 1866-1952
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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Source Version: History as the story of liberty : Benedetto Croce ; translated from the Italian by Sylvia Sprigge
Croce, Benedetto, 1866-1952
New York: W.W. Norton, 1941.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04805
Subject Headings: • Historiography
• History -- Philosophy
Notes: • Translation of La storia come pensiero e come azione.
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