Required Texts and Videos
Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France. (Download from Bartleby)
Calvin. The Institutes of the Christian Religion. (View text on the Medieval History SourceBook)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. (View text on Exploring the French Revolution - scroll down page to see link to text)
Descartes. Discourse Concerning Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998. ISBN: 0872204219. (Download versions of the texts from The Classics Library)
French Constitution of 1793. (View text on Exploring the French Revolution - click on 2nd link)
Freud. Civilization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989. ISBN: 0393301583.
Galileo. "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina." (View text on the Modern History SourceBook)
Goethe. Elective Affinities. New York: Penguin Classics, 1978. ISBN: 0140442421.
Hegel. "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness." (View text on The Marxists Internet Archive)
Hobbes. Leviathan. (Download from Project Gutenberg.)
Hume. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. (Download from Project Gutenberg)
Kant. Groundings in the Metaphysics of Morals. (Download from Project Gutenberg)
Kant. "What is Enlightenment?" (View text on the Modern History SourceBook)
Luther. On Governmental Authority.
Marx. The German Ideology. (View text on The Marxists Internet Archive)
Marx. Manifesto of the Communist Party. (Download from Project Gutenberg)
Rousseau. Basic Political Writings. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1988. ISBN: 0872200477.
Sieyès. "What is the Third Estate?" (View text on Exploring the French Revolution - click on 1st link)
Smith. The Wealth of Nations. (Download from Project Gutenberg.)
Wajda. Danton. 1983. ASIN: 0780021797.
Readings by Class Session
| 1 |
Luther. On Governmental Authority.
Calvin. The Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Protestant Church Architecture. (In-class viewing) |
Complete texts |
| 2 |
Galileo. "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina." |
Complete text |
| 3 |
Descartes. "Discourse Concerning Method." |
Complete text |
| 4 |
Descartes. "Meditations on First Philosophy." |
Complete text |
| 5 |
Hobbes. Leviathan. |
Introduction and chapters 1-16 |
| 6 |
Kant. "What is Enlightenment?"
Kant. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals.
Architecture of Schinkel. (In-class viewing) |
Sections I and II |
| 7 |
Hume. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.
Music of Bach. (In-class sampling) |
Complete text |
| 8 |
Hegel. "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness." |
Complete text |
| 9 |
Rousseau. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality.
Goethe. Elective Affinities. |
Complete text
Selection |
| 10 |
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France. |
Complete text
pp. 1-33, 41-45, 51-54, 59-94, 118-22, 140-51, and 217-18 |
| 11 |
Preface to the French Constitution of 1793.
Sieyès. "What is the Third Estate?"
Paintings of David and Goya. (In-class viewing) |
Complete texts |
| 12 |
Wajda. Danton. (In-class viewing) |
Complete text |
| 13 |
Smith. The Wealth of Nations. |
Introduction and plan of the work
Book I: chapters 1-3, chapter 4 first two paragraphs and last two pages, and chapters 7-8 |
| 14 |
Marx. Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Marx. The German Ideology. |
Complete text
Selections |
| 15 |
Freud. Civilization and Its Discontents. |
Selections |
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