Abstract

An account of history and man's relations to it, surveying work done by the author in more detail in previous volumes. The vehicle of truth is biography rather than history, which cannot duplicate events as they happened. The claim that the unique man can be adequately described, while the unique event cannot, poses a paradox which the author attempts to solve in terms of man's essential rationality. The book moves too fast to be convincing, but is interesting nonetheless. Contains detailed bibliographical notes. --