Promise of History

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Politics and History / Moulakis, Athanasios -- Modernity and History I: What is Modernity? / Schabert, Tilo -- Modernity and History II: On the Edge of Modernity? / Schabert, Tilo -- From Feudalism to Capitalism: History and Politics in the Scottish Enlightenment / Bellamy, Richard -- Political Eschatology and Soteriological Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Germany / Gebhardt, Jürgen -- Liberalism and Historicism: Benedetto Croce and the Political Role of Idealism in Modern Italy 1890-1952 / Bellamy, Richard -- Political Reality and History in the Work of Eric Voegelin / Moulakis, Athanasios -- History, Politics and the Sense of Sin: The Case of Reinhold Niebuhr / Kennealy, Peter -- The Future and Catastrophe: The Concept of History in Italian Futurism / Hinz, Manfred -- Biographical Sketches of the Authors