a priori fictions" in their research (LPW 29 [VPW 31]), and he affirms that "the sole end of history is to comprehend clearly what is and what has been, the events and deeds of the past. It gains in veracity the more strictly it confines itself to what is given... and the more exclusively it seeks to discover what actually happened" (LPW 26 [VPW 27]). However, he also claims that the philosophy of history is "the application of thought to history," history viewed through a philosophical lens, which forces history "to conform to its preconceived notions and constructs history a priori" (LPW 25 [VPW 25]). This chapter will examine how Hegel navigates between these two familiar and contradictory positions, and how he presents a philosophy of history that both enacts and recounts the unstable process by which our thought creates what we are." /> Narration, bildung, and the work of mourning in Hegel's philosophy of history - Coe Cynthia D | sdvig press