Philosophy of History

ALEXANDER LYON MACFIE has written widely on the Straits Question, the Eastern Question, the modern history of the Middle East and other related subjects. His publications include The Eastern Question (2nd edition, 1996), The Straits Question (1993), Ataturk (1994), The End of the Ottoman Empire (1998), Orientalism: A Reader (2000), Orientalism (2002) and Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy: A Reader (2003).

• Preface Introduction The Place of History in Spinoza's Metaphysics; E.de Jonge Did the French Revolutionaries Have a Philosophy of History?; W.Scott Hegel's History of Philosophy: Some Critical Reflections; R.M.Burns The Concept of Civilization and the Problem of a Speculative Philosophy of History; L.Armour On the Role of Time in Collingwood's Thought; M.J.O'Neill Intertextuality, Time and Historical Understanding; E.O'Gorman Early Foucault and Transcendental History; B.Han-Pile Postmodernism, the End of History and Frank Ankersmit; K.Jenkins Postmodernism and the Politics of Historiography; O.Daddow Detachment Dispatch'd: History as Poetics; B.Southgate Postmodern Scepticism, Truth and History; J.Connelly Why All Historical Accounts are Inevitably Theoretical, but Why Some Accounts are Preferable to Others; M.Fulbrook The Manifold Paradoxes of Orientalism; A.L.Macfie Biography and History: Criticism, Theory and Practice; A.Muslow Getting Inside Heisenberg's Head; R.Monk Index