Theory of History

The course examines the key foundations of conceptual history and problematizes epistemological questions related to the writing of history and the historian’s study of the past. It introduces students to the history of historiography and to critical reflections on the historian’s impartiality, historical truth, the reliability of reconstructing past events, the role of narrative, temporal frameworks (historical time, the longue durée, event and structure), and the role of interdisciplinarity within specific historiographical fields (social history, historical anthropology, demographic history).
Students become acquainted with contemporary historiographical approaches and the most recent debates on the use of written and oral testimonies in historical research (the regressive method, the evidential paradigm, oral history, and the use of photography as a historical source), as well as with discussions on writing national and ethnocentric histories. Special emphasis is also placed on debates concerning the public use of history, the relationship between memory and history, and the interplay between individual and collective memory.

M. Bloch, Apologija zgodovine ali poklic zgodovinarja, Ljubljana 1996, 183 str. ID – 62645504
Burke Peter, Kulturna hibridnost. Ljubljana, Studia Humanitatis, 2020. COBISS.SI-ID – 27226627
M Bloch, O zgodovini, spominu in lažnih novicah, Ljubljana 2023, str. 151Nabaviti COBISS.SI-ID – 151804931
Primo Levi, Potopljeni in rešeni. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2003 COBISS.SI-ID – 123973376
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Rasa in zgodovina ; Totemizem danes: Studia humanitatis, 1994 COBISS.SI-ID - 40083968

Priporočena literatura:
- P. Veyne, So Grki verjeli v svoje mite, Ljubljana 1998, 258 str.
- J. W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History, New York 1999, 267 str.
- M. Sahlins, Islands of History, Chicago 1987, 180 str.
- E. J. Hobsbawm in T. Ranger (ur.), The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge 1993- M. Halbwachs, Kolektivni spomin, Ljubljana 2001, 264 str
- A. Momigliano, Razprave iz historiografije, I. in II. el, Ljubljana, 1988-1989
- S. Buck- Morss, Hegel, Haiti in univerzalna zgodovina,Ljubljana, 2012, 173 str.
Luisa Passerini, Ustna zgodovina, spol in utopija. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2008
- Zygmunt Bauman, Moderna in holokavst. Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2006.
- Michel Vovelle, Ideologije in mentalitete. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2004
- Luisa Accati, Pošast in lepotica. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2001
- Marta Verginella, Suha pašta, pesek in bombe: vojni dnevnik Bruna Trampuža. Koper: Univerza na Primorskem, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče : Zgodovinsko društvo za južno Primorsko, 2004.
- Peter Brown, Telo in družba: spolno odrekanje v zgodnjem krščanstvu. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2007
- Peter Brown, Vzpon zahodnega krščanstva: zmagoslavje in raznoličnost. Ljubljana, 2006.
- Ginzburg Carlo, Sir in črvi : svet nekega mlinarja iz 16. stoletja. Ljubljana : Studia Humanitatis, 2010.
- Jacques Le Rider, Dunajska moderna in kriza identitete, Ljubljana 2017 - Victor Klemperer, LT
- Lingua Tertii Imperii (Govorica tretjega rajha): Filologova beležnica, Ljubljana 2014
- Susan Sontag, O Fotografiji, Koda. Ljubljana : Študentska založba, 2001.
- Susan Sontag, Pogled na bolečino drugega. Ljubljana : Sophia, 2006.