Henning Trüper (EHESS-CRH, Paris) with Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles): I. Two genealogies of historical teleologyIntroduction: Teleology and history : nineteenth-century fortunes of an Enlightenment project
Sanjay Subrahmanyam: The politics of eschatology : a short reading of the long view
Philip Ajouri (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, Germany): II. Botched vanishing acts : on the difficulties of making teleology disappear ; The "vocation of man"/"Die Bestimmung des Menschen" : a teleological concept of the German Enlightenment and its aftermath in the nineteenth century
Marianne Sommer (University of Lucerne, Switzerland): Earth history and the order of society : William Buckland, the French connection, and the conundrum of teleology
Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary University London, UK): After Darwin : teleology in German philosophical anthropology
Henning Trüper (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, France): III. Befriending teleology : writings histories with ends ; Save their souls : historical teleology goes to sea in nineteenth-century Europe
Siddharth Satpathy (University of Hyderabad, India): Reading history in colonial India : three nineteenth-century narratives and their teleologies
Dipesh Chakrabarty: A gift of providence : destiny as national history in colonial India
Francisco A. Ortega (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): IV. Teleology in the revolutionary polis ; The "democracy of blood" : the colours of racial fusion in nineteenth-century Spanish America
Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland): Between context and telos : reviewing the structures of international law
Etienne balibar (Université Paris 8, France/Columbia University, USA): Marxism and the idea of revolution : the messianic moment in Marx
Carola Dietze (University of Giessen, Germany): V. Translating futures : eschatology, history and the individual ; Religious teleologies and violence in the United States : the case of John Brown
Gabriel Piterberg (University of California, Los Angeles): "But was I really primed?" : Gershom Scholem's Zionist project
Faisal Devji (Oxford University, UK): Catching up to oneself : Islam and the representation of humanity
Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain): VI. Historical futures without direction? ; Autonomy in history : teleology in nineteenth-century European social and political thought
Bo Stråth (University of Helsinki, Finland).: The faces of modernity : Crisis, Kairos, Chronos : Koselleck versus Hegel
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