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Bib.54

Historical Inevitability [delivered under the title ‘History as an Alibi’], Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture no. 1 (London, 1954: Oxford University Press), 76 pp.

  • repr. in Auguste Comte Memorial Lectures 1953–1962 (London, 1964: Athlone Press), Four Essays on Liberty and Liberty, Patrick Gardiner (ed.), The Philosophy of History (London, 1974: Oxford University Press), and The Proper Study of Mankind
  • excerpted in Hans Meyerhoff (ed.), The Philosophy of History in Our Time: An Anthology (New York, 1959: Doubleday), and Ronald. H. Nash (ed.), Ideas of History (New York, 1969: Dutton)
  • trans. Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Bibliography
T.54

‘Historical Inevitability’

Danish

‘Historisk nodvendighed’, in Den ideale straeben og andre essays, trans. Anders Smith (Copenhagen, 2005: Gyldendal)

Italian

Japanese

‘Rekishi no hituzensei’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, Rekishino Hituzensei (Tokyo, 1966: Misuzu Shobo) ‘Rekishi no Hituzensei’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)

Norwegian

Den historiske nodvendighet, trans. Erik Gunnes (Oslo, 1971: Cappelens)

Spanish

‘La inevitabilidad histórica’, trans. Julio Bayón, in Libertad ynecesidad en la historia (Madrid, 1974: Revista de Occidente)

Swedish

Är historien ödesbestämd?, trans. Anders Byttner (Stockholm, 1956: Stockholms Bokindustri)

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