Description: PHILOSOPHIES & THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY
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Modern thought on the meaning, direction of history; roots in eschatology, Augustine; flowering in progress, historicism: Hegel, Ranke, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Troeltsch, Spengler, Heidegger, Toynbee; cultural echo (de Chirico, Proust, Mann, Robbe-Grillet, Bunuel, Bergman, Fellini).
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Also offered as RELI 451. Cross-list: RELI 451, RELI 517.