Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One - History -- 1. Historia rerum gestarum -- 1.1 Searching for Causes -- 1.2 Truth and Usefulness -- 2. Res gestae -- 2.1 The Essence of Mankind and its Progress -- 2.2 Novelty: Time as Object and its Calculation -- 2.3 Order and Becoming: Law and Freedom -- 3. The Subject and its Time -- 3.1 The Form of Historical Identity -- 3.2 Historical Identity, Cause, and Time -- 3.3 Political Will -- Chapter Two - Myth -- 1. From History to Myth -- 2. Mythical Identity -- 3. Mythical Time -- Chapter Three - The Dynamics of Legitimation -- 1. Empirical and Transcendental -- 1.1 Factual Co-Existence of History and Myth -- 1.2 The Common Transcendental Structure and its Identity-Orientation -- 2. Elements of the Dynamics of Legitimation -- 2.1 Primacy of the Present -- 2.2 Causality: Interaction and Abduction -- 2.3 Belonging and Distancing -- Conclusions -- NOTES -- Notes to Chapter One: History -- Notes to Chapter 2: Myth -- Notes to Chapter Three: Dynamics of Legitimation -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.