Includes bibliographical references and index.

The place of history in Spinoza's metaphysics / Eccy de Jonge -- Did the French Revolution have a philosophy of history? / William Scott -- Hegel's history of philosophy : some critical reflections / Robert M. Burns -- The concept of civilization and the problem of a speculative philosophy of history / Leslie Armour -- On the role of time in Collingwood's thought / Michael J. O'Neill -- Intertextuality, time and historical understanding / Ellen O'Gorman -- Early Foucault and transcendental history / Béatrice Han-Pile -- Postmodernity, the end of history, and Frank Ankersmit / Keith Jenkins -- Postmodernism and the politics of historiography / Oliver DaddowDetachment dispatch'e : history as poetics / Beverley Southgate -- Postmodern scepticism, truth and history / James Connelly -- Why all historical accounts are inevitably theoretical; but why some accounts are preferable to others / Mary Fulbrook -- The manifold paradoxes of orientalism / Alexander Lyon Macfie -- Biography and history : criticism, theory and practice / Alun Munslow -- getting inside Heisenberg's head / Ray Monk.