In this course, students shall grasp the major theoretical frameworks that define and delimit current efforts in doing philosophy (or rather, theory) of, and in, history. This course shall be divided into two parts: In the earlier part, students will be oriented to the prolegomenon of doing philosophy of – or rather, theorizing in – history. The first part will end with a survey of the major speculative philosophies of history (e.g., Herodotus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Hegel, Spengler). Then by the second part onwards, students shall engage with close reading of influential texts that shape current theorizings of (and in) history, covering twelve major theoretical houses (e.g., empiricism, Marxism, postcolonialism, gender, emotions, etc.). Students shall dissect how each major text employs and explains these four (4) interlinked themes: contextualization, temporal frameworks, causality, and subjectivities.