Introduction: what is called History? Aaron Turner
Part 1 Does History Have an Essence?
1. The Essence of History Frank Ankersmit
2. If History Had an Essence, It Wouldn’t Be History Robert C. Scharff
Part 2 History as Past, Past as History?
3. “The Past” Is an Ambiguous Expression Giuseppina D’Oro
4. Alain Badiou, the Metaphysics of the Event, and the Meaning of History Luke O’Sullivan
5. Time’s Travellers Susan A. Crane
6. Historical Reflection and the Passive Presence of the Historical Past Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Part 3 The End of History?
7. Temporality, History and Crisis David Carr
8. Freedom and Homelessness: the Historical Ground of Political Life Laurence Hemming
9. The Last Consequences of Historical Consciousness Aaron Turner
Biography
Aaron Turner is the Assistant Director of the Knapp Foundation and a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the editor of Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History (2020) and Heidegger and Classical Thought (2024). He is currently writing his monograph, Thucydides and the Ground of History.
