Mandelbaum M. History, Man, & Reason: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Though

Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1971. — 567 p.A fundamental source of history of philosophical thought in XIX century.Philosophical background
Philosophic movements in the nineteenth century
Historicism
The nature and scope of historicism
The first phase of historicism : from the Enlightenment through Hegel
The search for a science of society : from Saint-Simon to Marx and Engels
Evolution and progress
Social evolutionism
Historicism : a critical appraisal
The malleability of man
Challenges to constancy
Geneticism : the associationist tradition
Organicism : culture and human nature
Man as a progressive being
Constancy and change in human nature : a critical account
The limits of reason
Critiques of the instellectual powers of man : the idealist strand
Ignoramus, ignorabimus : the positivist strand
The rebellion against reason
The limits reappraised.