Getting at what is behind history
The already historicized world
The concept of historics
Historical illusions
The logic of "sense"
A sense of history
Theme
History and indiscriminate interests
The cultural politics of distinction
Historics
History and sentience
The organic conception of history
'The common denominator of all our sensibilities'
'The anguish secreted by human infirmity'
Comprehension and history
Apprehension and history
Historical knowledge
The 'prosthesis god'
Neither art nor science
Historical discourse
Phantom experiences
History as a sense-management system
The faith of fallen Jews
Homo studiosus
History as symbolic re-enactment
Coda.
Historics : why history dominates contemporary society by Martin L. Davies. ISBN 9780415261661. Published by Routledge in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.