Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Democracy and history -- 1. Democracy without history? -- 2. Origins of democracy and the philosophy of history -- 3. Liberty and necessity -- 4. Dissolution and redescriptions of the paradigmof the classical philosophy of history -- 5. Democracy and crisis of the classical philosophy of history -- Chapter Two: Postmodernity and history -- 1. The "end of histor -- 2. Archipelagos and transparent societies -- 3. Conversation and progress -- 4. The universal history of weakness -- 5. The postmodern as the new historicism -- Chapter Three: Meaning and sense of history -- 1. Globalization and history of the world -- 2. The history of being as historicism without purpose -- 3. For a new nexus between future and past -- Chapter Four: Right to the future -- 1. Historical equality -- 2. The inequalities of eternity -- 3. The affirmation of a personal future -- 4. The privilege of the future -- 5. The alternative of philosophy -- Notes.