https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/HISU5004?type=COREThis course is open for 4th year BA students. PhD students can take it only for AUDIT.The course is intended to give - a necessarily subjective - account of those grand debates that are going on in modern historiography. First, it treats the eighteenth, nineteenth-century heritage that modern historiography necessarily handles, from Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, through Karl Marx, to Max Weber. This heritage dates from the colonial times and is deeply impressed with the grand narrative of European and Western exceptionalism. The course cannot aim at more than listing and briefly presenting the recent attempts at overcoming, even if not discarding, this heritage. Some of these attempts, such as subaltern and postcolonial history, world system theories, and longue durée structural history, will receive particular attention. This course was first given in the last academic year, and will perhaps be given the last time at CEU, due to the instructor's retirement. The experiences of the last year as well as the student feedback has been built in in the new plan. Warning: As it is said in legal terminology, 'we reserve the right to change the program.' In fact, the program will be shaped according to the reactions and the interests of the students.