An edition of An Interpretation of Universal History
(1973)
An Interpretation of Universal History
First Edition
by José Ortega y Gasset
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An Interpretation of Universal History
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Table of Contents
Preliminary Note
Page 7
I.
Toynbee's careers. International information. Communication. Experience of life. The Greco-Roman decline.
Page 11
II.
The architectonic quality of Toynbee's work. What is a leaf? The history of England. Complete reality. Western society: its limits.
Page 37
III.
The "case" of England. Review. The Empire. The Mediterranean and the limes.
Page 56
IV.
Domi et militiae. The Roman Empire, an abnormal state. A halt: the Institute of the Humanities and the science of history.
Page 77
V.
"Naturalities" and "humanities." About the realities which make up history. Imperium and imperator before the wavering glance of the historian. Illegitimacy.
Page 95
VI.
Stages in the origin of the state. The evolution of the Roman state. The end of legitimacy. The symbol of the British past.
Page 114
VII.
Bullfights. Review. Enrichment: self-absorbed and open; the scaling magnitude. Parenthesis: the Tibetization of Spain in the seventeenth century and the end of Madrid's century.
Page 150
VIII.
Riches and the origin of reason. Modernity and illegitimacy: Spanish examples. Rome's passage from the self-absorbed life to the open life. The Right; the intellectual, the prophet. Amos. "Intoxication" through victory. Stoicism and the sun god. The civil wars. The imperial state. The flrst help for "illegitimacy."
Page 170
IX.
Revision of the itinerary. The Right and the Just. Crete. The "universal influence." Civilization and "primitive society." The spontaneous civilizations. Challenge-and response.
Page 200
X.
Review of the previous lesson. The original civilizations. The race factor. The genius of the English. Racism. The empirical method and pure ideas. Challenge-and-response. Man, a fantastic animal.
Page 224
XI.
Mr. Toynvee's pieties and the "Numantism" of England. Challenge-and-response continued. General principles and their complement. Two theorems. The human being's lack of definition. Facilities and difficulties. Basic reality. Technique and happiness.
Page 250
XII.
The trajectory followed. The substance. Being and the reform of intelligence. The superficial character of French existentialism. The three great concepts in Toynbee's thought. The paradox of the Roman state. Roman Law and concord. Modern law and the desiderata. The parable of the man and the bear.
Page 278
Edition Notes
Series of lectures on A. J. Toynbee's "A Study of History" given at The Institute of Humanities in Madrid in 1948-1949.
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