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Intellectual History (HEC-AS-INTHIS-24)

HEC-AS-INTHIS-24

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How can intellectual history help us make sense of the present? In this seminar, we will read, engage with, and discuss recent works that speak to the current historical moment. We will roam widely across genres and read political biographies, conceptual histories, as well as narrative nonfiction. We will discuss essays tackling the sense of crisis defining the present, and track how our sense of the future has changed; we will read works trying to map new forms of political subjectivation and their conceptual expressions; we will also give ourselves the liberty to collectively select the readings for some of the sessions, which will be left deliberately open. 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 the seminar.
 

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