The Search for a Meaningful Past:
Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History
Part I & Part II
Great Courses on Tape
Total = 8 cassettes / Estimated Running Time 8 Hours
LCCN: 00527022

Topics of Lectures include: Mircea Eliade's Cosmos and History and Cyclical Time; The Early Enlightenment and the Search for the Laws of History; Vico's New Science of History; The High Enlightenment's Cult of Progress: Kant's Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View; Nietzche's Critique of Historical Consciousness: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life; Weber's Historical Sociology; Taking the Long View: Arnold Toynbee and World Historical Speculation; Twentieth-Century Neo-Idealism: R.G. Collingwood's The Idea of History; Arthur Danto's Narration and Knowledge; social history, structuralism, and the long duree: Fernand Braudel's On History; Post-structuralism and the linguistic turn: Hayden White's Introduction to Metahistory; Naturalism Revisited: William McNeil's Plagues and Peoples; The Heterogeneity of Historical Understanding.

Contents
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8 sound cassettes + 2 course guides


The Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History, Part I

4 cassettes with 16 Page Booklet


The Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History, Part II

4 cassettes with 20 Page Booklet

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See the Library of Congress for a complete list of Lectures on all 8 cassettes

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