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Join Professor Rahul Sarwate in Methods in Intellectual History, a course that explores how ideas, emotions, and abstract concepts like caste, gender, and colonial experience can be studied historically. Blending methodological enquiry with interdisciplinary materials such as texts, cinema, and cultural artefacts, the course introduces key approaches from thinkers like Quentin Skinner, Ashis Nandy, and Michel Foucault to examine how societies have understood and expressed feelings, ideas, and intellectual life over time. Ideal for students looking to move beyond conventional social history, this course offers a fresh lens to engage with the methods and possibilities of writing histories of ideas.
Join Professor Rahul Sarwate in Methods in Intellectual History, a course that explores how ideas, emotions, and abstract concepts like caste, gender, and colonial experience can be studied historically. Blending methodological enquiry with interdisciplinary materials such as texts, cinema, and cultural artefacts, the course introduces key approaches from thinkers like Quentin Skinner, Ashis Nandy, and Michel Foucault to examine how societies have understood and expressed feelings, ideas, and intellectual life over time. Ideal for students looking to move beyond conventional social history, this course offers a fresh lens to engage with the methods and possibilities of writing histories of ideas.
