Description
Thinklink with Dr. Wahab Suri in live weekly lectures and explore concepts for an enriched understanding of history and historical narratives
Structural Exposition of the Course:
The fundamental objective of this course is to provide the internal theoretical dynamics of History not just as a container of past events or documentation of past events rather history as an idea.
The course has been divided into three modules
- The Conceptual
- The Theoretical
- The Critical and Explicatory
Module 1:
This module provides basic conceptual framework to understand the theoretical and critical dynamics of history. In this section initial exposition regarding the difference among traditional, Scientific, speculative, and critical conception of history are going to be discussed.
- History as an event or an idea.
- History and search of law.
- Nature of change: Archaic (Cyclical), Messianic, Dialectical, genealogical
- Factors of change: geography, Race, religions (revelation), rationality, material conditions, individual.
