Table of Contents Unsettling the past : objectivity, irony, and history -- Narrative as enclosure : the contextual histories of H. Stuart Hughes -- Performing history : modernist contextualism in Carl E. Schorske's Fin-de siècle Vienna -- Foucault on discourse and history : a style of delegitimation -- Natural right and the end of history : Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève -- Thin description : Richard Rorty's use of history -- Cultural criticism and political theory : Hayden White's rhetorics of history -- The ironist's cage -- The nostalgic nest at the end of history -- Tradition, memory, and history : on Edward Shils and Yosef Yerushalmi -- Freud's use and abuse of the past -- You must remember this : history, memory, and trauma in Hiroshima mon amour -- Shoah as shivah.