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