Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Class on Friday, 12 September 2008

Professor Amlan Das Gupta will take the General Theory class on Friday, 12th September 2008, on History. Consider this confirmed.

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Amlan Das Gupta said...

General Theory II: History
Amlan Das Gupta

The Nature of History: Early Considerations

Some primary texts

Herodotus, Persian Wars

http://www.parstimes.com/history/herodotus/persian_wars/

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html

Xenophon, Cyropaedia

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_xenophon_cyroped_contents.htm

Cicero On the Orator

http://www.archive.org/details/ciceroonoratorya00ciceuoft

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Amlan Das Gupta said...

Lecture II
History and Salvation: Saeculum and the City of God

Text:
Augustine, The City of God
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102.toc.html
Discussion:
RA Markus Saeculum, CUP:1970
JGA Pocock The Machiavellian Moment, PUP, rev.ed. 2003