HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hebrew Calendar
14 Sep 2016
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Introduction: understanding the context of situations, movements and etc. in history, interpretation is the root of everything we do as the humanity, dates are the tools to order history in the mind. Dates are the interpretation of history: the dates of the war (history) is different for different nations in different countries, 1939 canada in the iiww; for china it is 1937, when they are attacked by japan, calendric systems. Chinese calendar no comparable to western versions: time itself is a human construct. It always requires interpretation: cartographical division is also a human, cultural construct. The value of history: cogent questions, preoccupations of our own times, appropriate use and analysis of evidence, importance of context, relations between objectivity and subjectivity, difference between opinion and substantiated interpretation. The meaning of modernity; interaction of the west and the rest of the world. Meaning of modernity in different centuries (17th century modernity meant dirt, the rejection of renaissance)
