Contents
Preface
1. The Question of History
2. The Question of the Ground of History
The Question of the Ground of History in Rousseau and Kant as the Antinomy of Freedom and Natural Necessity
Hegel's Reception of the Antinomy: The Revolution of Freedom and the Tyranny of Natural Desire
The Collapse of Spiritual Unity in Germany
From Antinomy to Dialectic
The Search for Reconciliation in Hegel's Early Thought
Hegel's Science of the Phenomenology of Spirit
The "Introduction"
The Phenomenology and the Philosophy of History
Absolute Knowledge, Science, and the Ground
Critique and Conclusions
5. History as Being
Heidegger's Critique of Modernity
Heidegger's Critique of Metaphysics as the History of Being
The Revelation of Being as Nihilism and History
Critique and Conclusions
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index