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...