| History and Tropology |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction Transcendentalism and the Rise and Fall of Metaphor |
| One Six Theses on Narrativist Philosophy of History |
 | Two The Dilemma of Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Philosophy of History |
 | Three The Use of Language in the Writing of History |
| • | 1. Introduction: The Enlightened and the Romanticist Views of Social Reality |
| • | 2. The Enlightenment Paradigm: The General Statement |
| • | 3. The Romantic Paradigm: Historical Narrative |
| • | 4. Constructivism |
| • | 5. The Use of Language in the Writing of History |
| • | 6. Conclusion |
| Four Historical Representation |
| Five The Reality Effect in the Writing of History The Dynamics of Historiographical Topology |
| Six Historiography and Postmodernism |
| Seven Historism and Postmodernism A Phenomenology of Historical Experience |
| Index |