Two sets of Great Courses on Cassette Tapes

The Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories, and Interpretations of Human History by Professor Darren Staloff

Part I

Lecture 1: Issues and Problems

Lecture 2: Mirces Eliade's Cosmos and History and Cyclical Time

Lecture 3: Early Enlightenment & the Search for the Laws of History-Vico's New Science of History

Lecture 4: 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: Mar's Historical Materialism

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Critique of Historical Consciousness-On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Lecture 8: Weber's Historical Sociology

Part II

Lecture 9: Taking the Long View...

Lecture 10: Twentieth-Century Neo-Idealism...

Lecture 11: Positivist Conception of Historical Knowledge...

Lecture 12: Analytic Musings...

Lecture 13: Social Hisstory, Structuralism, and the Long Duree...

Leture 14: Post-Structuralism and the Linguistic Tern...

Lecture 15: Naturalism Revisited...

Lecture 16: Heterogeneity of Historical Understanding...