The Search for a Meaningful Past Teaching Co. (1995)
|Abstract||pt. 1. lecture 1. Issues and problems ; lecture 2.
Mircea Eliade's Cosmos and history and cyclical time ; lecture
3. The early enlightenment and the search for the laws of
history, Vico's New science of history ; lecture 4. The high
enlightenment's cult of progress, Kant's idea for a universal
history from a cosmopolitan point of view ; lecture 5. Hegel's
philosophy of history ; lecture 6. Marx's historical materialism
; lecture 7. Nietzche's critique of historical consciousness, On
the advantages and disadvantages of history for life ; lecture
8. Weber's historical sociology -- pt. 2. lecture 9. Taking the
long view, Arnold Toynbee and world historical speculation ;
lecture 10. Twentieth-century neo-idealism, R.G. Collingwood's
The idea of history ; lecture 11. The positivist conception of
historical knowledge, Carl Hempel's The function of general laws
in history ; lecture 12. Analytic musings, Arthur Danto's
Narration and knowledge ; lecture 1