Sumários

Making history, between the creation of a discipline in the nineteenth century and the postwar debates

11 Novembro 2019, 18:00 Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Aula lecionada pelo Prof. Doutor Jorge Flores

Leopold von Ranke (m. 1886), and history as a discipline (scientific?)

  • Max Weber (d. 1920) and the roots of the intersection of history with the social sciences

• The Annales School and its central figures: Febvre, Bloch, Braudel

• Social history vs. (bad) political history; comparative history vs. national history; historical demography, quantitative history and serial history

• Marxism, structuralism and history

• The “new history” and the main paths of the discipline in the 1980s

• The Portuguese landscape, from Alexandre Herculano (d. 1877) to Magalhães Godinho (d. 2011)

• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.

Mandatory reading: Dale Tomich, “The Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-History,” Almanack, 2 (2011), pp. 52-65.


Making history, between the creation of a discipline in the nineteenth century and the postwar debates

11 Novembro 2019, 16:00 Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Leopold von Ranke (m. 1886), and history as a discipline (scientific?)

  • Max Weber (d. 1920) and the roots of the intersection of history with the social sciences

• The Annales School and its central figures: Febvre, Bloch, Braudel

• Social history vs. (bad) political history; comparative history vs. national history; historical demography, quantitative history and serial history

• Marxism, structuralism and history

• The “new history” and the main paths of the discipline in the 1980s

• The Portuguese landscape, from Alexandre Herculano (d. 1877) to Magalhães Godinho (d. 2011)

• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.

Mandatory reading: Dale Tomich, “The Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-History,” Almanack, 2 (2011), pp. 52-65.


History of Science in Romanticism

4 Novembro 2019, 18:00 Ana Duarte Rodrigues

The origins of the Philosophy of Nature and Naturforschung.

• The impact of Humboldt's travels on the history of European science. The organization of subjects at Humboldt Universitat.

• The role of genius in the Romanticism history of science and history of art.

• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.

 

Mandatory reading: CUNNINGHAM, Andrew e Nicholas Jardine, Romanticism and the Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 

 

 


History of Science in Romanticism

4 Novembro 2019, 16:00 Ana Duarte Rodrigues

The origins of the Philosophy of Nature and Naturforschung.

• The impact of Humboldt's travels on the history of European science. The organization of subjects at Humboldt Universitat.

• The role of genius in the Romanticism history of science and history of art.

• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.

 

Mandatory reading: CUNNINGHAM, Andrew e Nicholas Jardine, Romanticism and the Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 

 

 


History of Science in the Eighteenth Century

28 Outubro 2019, 18:00 Ana Duarte Rodrigues

The role of history in contemporary sciences.

  • The strong belief in progress and science and its repercussions on the history of science.
  • Priestley and the texts on electricity.
  • The works of Lavoisier.
  • Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.

 

Mandatory reading: Jennings, Edward, “The ferment of Knowledge: The historiography of eighteenth century science”, The Eighteenth Century, 24 (3), 1983, pp. 244-256.