The textbook is devoted to the critical analysis of philosophical and historical concepts of the past and the present - from the philosophy of antiquity to postmodernism. Does history make sense? Is there any progress in history? Is it possible to identify the laws of history and manage it? - these and many other questions are answered by the manual. For students and postgraduates of Humanities faculties, as well as for all those interested in actual problems of philosophy
Meaning of history, destiny, historical law, culture, civilization, historical cycles, beginning and end of history