From Athens to Auschwitz : the uses of history / Christian Meier ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Von Athen bis Auschwitz.

History -- Philosophy.

1. The absence of history: assessing the situation: we are running out of time

2. Around 1500: the "European Miracle" and what made it possible

3. Athens and Rome: the origins of Europe's special path

4. Deeds and contingencies, politics and processes: where history takes place and who is responsible for it

5. Auschwitz

6. A legacy without heirs? what is our legacy and what is it good for?

Notes

Index.

Originally published as Von Athen bis Auschwitz: Betrachtungen zur Lage der Geschichte, by Verlag C.H. Beck. Munich, 2002.

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xii, 239 p.