An essential introduction to a vast body of writing about history, from classical Greece and Rome to the contemporary world.

The theological implications of the philosophy of history, traced through the works of Buckhardt, Marx, Hegel, Proudhon, Comte, Condorcet, Turgot, Voltaire, Vic

An exposition of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.

Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.