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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
History
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
RAZ CHEN-MORRIS
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wed 11:00-12:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof Raz Chen-Morris
Course/Module description:
Reading the major philosophical, political and sociological tests that have shaped historical thinking and methodology over the last 150 years
Course/Module aims:
Enriching students' knowledge of main texts in modern Western thought and their influence on approaches to the study of History.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
At the end of this course, the students will acquaint themselves with main topics and debates in the discipline of History and the major texts in mdoern Western culture.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
discussion
Course/Module Content:
The Beginning of modern historiography: Machiavelli and Vico
Ranke and the birth of scientific historiography: the fact and the footnote
Marx (part 1): the principles of Marxist approach: Theses on Feuerbach, The Communist Manifesto.
Marx (part 2): Marx' notion of history, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"
Nietzsche and the critique of history
Freud and the discontent of history
Weber
The Frankfurt School: Benjamin's angel of history and post war dialectic of Enlightenment.
Structuralism
Annales
History as a profession
Marxist Historiography in the 20th century: Gramsci and Thompson
Intellectual History: Koselleck
History of Knowledge, History of Science
History and Anthropology
History and Memory
History and the Present- Foucault
History, Literature and Truth
History and the Visual
Economic History
Material History
Post-Colonial Historiography
History and Gender
History, Biology and the Environment
Required Reading:
The Beginning of modern historiography: Machiavelli and Vico
Ranke and the birth of scientific historiography: the fact and the footnote
Marx (part 1): the principles of Marxist approach: Theses on Feuerbach, The Communist Manifesto.
Marx (part 2): Marx' notion of history, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"
Nietzsche and the critique of history
Freud and the discontent of history
Weber
The Frankfurt School: Benjamin's angel of history and post war dialectic of Enlightenment.
Structuralism
Annales
History as a profession
Marxist Historiography in the 20th century: Gramsci and Thompson
Intellectual History: Koselleck
History of Knowledge, History of Science
History and Anthropology
History and Memory
History and the Present- Foucault
History, Literature and Truth
History and the Visual
Economic History
Material History
Post-Colonial Historiography
History and Gender
History, Biology and the Environment
Additional Reading Material:
For supplemental reading see course syllabus (Moodle)
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 30 %
Project work 35 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 35 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
None
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