historian between the ethnologist and the futurologist

Frontmatter -- Preface / Bullock, Alan -- Editors' note -- Contents -- 1. Rules of the game and landscapes -- Our current sense of history / Gellner, Ernest -- Discussion -- 2. Futurology or projection of the present -- Prediction versus prophecy / Bell, Daniel -- Discussion -- 3. The historian and scientific economics -- The necessity and impossibility of political economy / Wiles, Peter -- Discussion -- 4. Illusions of temporal continuity -- History, sociology and revolutions / Nisbet, Robert -- Discussion -- 5. Political history in crisis -- On the position of political history within the social sciences / Mommsen, Wolfgang J. -- Discussion -- 6. In praise of history -- What is historical knowledge for us today? / Trevor-Roper, Hugh -- Discussion -- 7. New historical method -- History and primitive man / Furet, François -- The historian and the common man / Le Goff, Jacques -- History of systems of values / Duby, Georges -- Postface / Aron, Raymond -- Participants