Hegel on history -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Life and influence -- Scope of the inquiry -- Text of the Introduction -- Varieties of history -- Predecessors -- Structure of the inquiry -- Part 1 Philosophical Foundations -- Chapter 2 Presuppositions -- Logic of consciousness -- Scepticism -- Idealist metaphysics -- Double meanings -- Chapter 3 Subject and infinite power -- Preliminary observations -- Immanence and transcendence -- Chapter 4 Concept and spirit -- Idea and concept -- From nature to spirit -- The philosophical tradition -- Ordinary usage -- Forms of spirit -- Chapter 5 Freedom -- Everyday thought and philosophy -- Ethical life -- Objectivity and subjectivity -- Being at home -- Consciousness and realisation -- Interval -- Chapter 6 From system to history -- Dialectical categories -- Recognition -- Actual and rational -- Part 2 The Course of History -- Chapter 7 Passion and conquest -- Interests -- States of mind -- The world's court of judgement -- Might and right -- Chapter 8 The cunning of reason -- Types of purpose -- Kant's conception -- Principles of development -- Literal truths -- Ancients and moderns -- Chapter 9 Peoples -- Ethnic diversity -- Non-European peoples -- Eurocentricty -- Imperialism -- Chapter 10 States -- Forms of state -- Beginnings of history -- Role of memory -- Chapter 11 The end of history -- Kojève -- The last stage -- Two forms of development -- Morning prayer -- Poverty, politics and religion -- A vanished world -- Gates of hell -- Recognition and equality -- Chapter 12 The ways of God -- Problem of evil -- Divine comedy -- Death of God -- Consolations of immortality -- The empirical record -- World history in the twentieth century -- Responsibilities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.