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Intellectual History (HEC-AS-INTHIS-25)

HEC-AS-INTHIS-25

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What is intellectual history and how can it help us clarify current debates and make sense of our time? In this seminar, we will read, engage with, and discuss recent works in the discipline that speak to a variety of issues relevant today, including current politics, questions of race and gender, or religious movements. We will roam widely across genres and read political biographies, conceptual histories, methodological essays, as well as critical accounts of the discipline. While the seminar will be mostly focused on recent works, we will occasionally reach back into the history of the field.  We will also give ourselves the liberty to collectively edit the syllabus and select main or optional readings in some sessions (so in some sense this is a work in progress). In the process, we will have an opportunity to touch upon the different approaches, methodologies, or “schools” of intellectual history, even though they will not be the main focus of our discussions.

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