Introduction: Values, Responsibilities, History / Ann Rigney -- 1. Distance and Perspective: Reflections on Two Metaphors / Carlo Ginzburg -- 2. 'Do Your Thing' / Peter Gay -- 3. Moral Commitment and Scholarly Detachment: The Social Function of the Historian / Wolfgang J. Mommsen -- 4. Historical Objectivity as a Matter of Social Values / Jorn Rusen -- 5. The Historian's Craft, Historicity, and Ethics / Francois Bedarida -- 6. Responsibilities: Two Cheers for Liberalism / Ed Jonker -- 7. Between Social History and Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and the Practice of the Historian at the End of the Twentieth Century / Geoff Eley -- 8. Monk or Courtier? Social Values and the Future of the Humanities / Arthur Mitzman -- 9. 'Italian' History versus French Heritage: Cultural Criticism, Positivism, and Political Commitment in Taine / Jo Tollebeek -- 10. In Defense of Engagement: The Social Uses of History in a Time of Intellectual Abdication / Michael Adas -- 11. Women and the Silences of History / Michelle Perrot -- 12. Towards a New National History: Lieux de memoire and Other Theaters of Memory / Niek van Sas -- 13. Traumatic Events and Historical Consciousness: Who is in Charge? / Lucette Valensi -- Afterword / Richard Rorty.