1. Introduction: Seeing things their way 2. The Practice of History and the Cult of the Fact 3. Interpretation, Rationality and Truth 4. Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas 5. Motives, Intentions and Interpretation 6. Interpretation and the Understanding of Speech Acts 7. 'Social Meaning' and the explanation of Social Action 8. Moral Principles and Social Change 9. The Idea of a Cultural Lexicon 10. Retrospect: Studying Rhetoric and Conceptual Change
