Hegel, the End of History, and the Future

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I Hegel and the end of history .....11 1 The end of history as a question and a problem .......13 2 Hegel and nietzsche ....28 Nietzsche`s hegelian sources ......28 Schopenhauer, history and hegel ......31 Burckhardt anbd the positivity of history .....38 Nietzsche`s five words .....42 3 Hegel and engels ....56 The post-hegelian reaction in prussia ......56 Engels and the schellingian critique of hegel ......64 The march revolution and the break with the hegelian left .....68 Engels and the end of history .....73 4 Hegel and kojeve .....80 The french hegelian renaissance ......80 Desire and the dialectic of history .......85 Kojeve`s end and hegel`s beginning ......100 Whither the end of history .....104 Part II Hegel and the philosophy of history ......111 5 Herder and history .....113 Herder and the philosophy of history .....113 Particularity and progress .....116 Freedom and the future ....125 6 Fichte and history .....135 Universal history and human knowledge .....135 The origin and limts of history .......145 Freedom and the state .....149 History and philosophical necessity .....157 7 Hegel and history .......161 Plotting history backwards ......161 History, the real and the rational .....166 Reason, history and philosophy ...175 8 The spirit and the end ......185 The geography of spirit .....185 Spiritual states .....192 Hegelian ends ......197 9 The present and the future .....207 Cunning .....207 Freedom and evil .....215 The future .....224