GERST 4506

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GERST 4506
European Temporal Imagination

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

This course offers an exploration of the European temporal imagination, or the ways that questions and concerns about time have been integral to both cultural self-understanding and philosophical reflection. Two main questions guide the course: what are the key patterns of argument related to time in the Western tradition? How did scientific knowledge, cross-cultural encounters and methodological disputes shape or change these patterns? The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were a period of rapid temporal expansion in both extent and detail: geology shifted the scale of time, and chronological work propelled claims for a truly "universal" history.  Departing from these developments, the course explores how temporal ideas have functioned within and shaped different disciplinary and institutional contexts.


Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4503, SHUM 4506

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17475 GERST 4506   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person