Frontmatter -- Preface -- Editors' note -- Contents -- 1. Rules of the game and landscapes -- Our current sense of history -- Discussion -- 2. Futurology or projection of the present -- Prediction versus prophecy -- Discussion -- 3. The historian and scientific economics -- The necessity and impossibility of political economy -- Discussion -- 4. Illusions of temporal continuity -- History, sociology and revolutions -- Discussion -- 5. Political history in crisis -- On the position of political history within the social sciences -- Discussion -- 6. In praise of history -- What is historical knowledge for us today? -- Discussion -- 7. New historical method -- History and primitive man -- The historian and the common man -- History of systems of values -- Postface -- Participants