SPRING 2019
WORLD HISTORY
History 242 and CSS 340
Adam Hart-Davis, ed., History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Modern Age (Smithsonian).
Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects (Penguin).
Peter Stearns, ed., World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader (NYU Press)
FALL 2018
POLITICAL FICTION
History 294
Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE (Penguin Classics).
Grimmelshausen, SIMPLICISSIMUS (Mike MItchell, tr., Dedalus Press ONLY).
Swift, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (Oxford World’s Classics).
Voltaire, CANDIDE (Penguin Classics).
Manzoni, THE BETROTHED (Penguin Classics).
SPRING 2017
EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SINCE THE RENAISSANCE
HISTORY 216
Plato, The Republic (Hackett).
Aristotle, Politics (Hackett) and Nicomachean Ethics (Hackett).
Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World’s Classics).
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Oxford World’s Classics).
D’Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot (Chicago).
Kant, What is Enlightenment? (Penguin Great Ideas).
Nietzsche, On Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life (Hackett).
Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (Norton).
FALL 2013
EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY TO THE RENAISSANCE
HISTORY 215
Plato, THE REPUBLIC (Dover Thrift).
Aristotle, NICOMACHEAN ETHICS and POLITICS (both from Dover Thrift).
Lucretius, ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE (Ronald Melville, tr., Oxford World’s Classics ONLY).
Epictetus, THE HANDBOOK OF EPICTETUS (Hackett Classics).
Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS (Hackett Classics).
Apuleius, THE GOLDEN ASS (Sarah Ruden, tr., Yale University Press ONLY).
Augustine, CONFESSIONS (Oxford World’s Classics).
Aquinas, SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: A CONCISE TRANSLATION (Christian Classics ONLY).
Dante, THE DIVINE COMEDY (Oxford World’s Classics).
Christine de Pizan, THE BOOK OF THE CITY OF LADIES (Persea).
Pico della Mirandola, ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN (Hackett Classics).
Machiavelli, THE PRINCE (Simon & Brown).
POLITICAL FICTION
History 294
Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE (Penguin Classics).
Grimmelshausen, SIMPLICISSIMUS (Mike MItchell, tr., Dedalus Press ONLY).
Swift, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (Oxford World’s Classics).
Voltaire, CANDIDE (Penguin Classics).
Manzoni, THE BETROTHED (Penguin Classics).
SPRING 2013
EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY TO THE RENAISSANCE
HISTORY 215
Plato, THE REPUBLIC (Dover Thrift).
Aristotle, POLITICS and NICOMACHEAN ETHICS (both from Dover Thrift).
Lucretius, ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE (Ronald Melville, tr., Oxford World’s Classics ONLY).
Epictetus, THE HANDBOOK OF EPICTETUS (Hackett Classics).
Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS (Hackett Classics).
Apuleius, THE GOLDEN ASS (Sarah Ruden, tr., Yale University Press ONLY).
Augustine, CONFESSIONS (Oxford World’s Classics).
Aquinas, SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: A CONCISE TRANSLATION (Christian Classics ONLY).
Dante, THE DIVINE COMEDY (Oxford World’s Classics).
Christine de Pizan, THE BOOK OF THE CITY OF LADIES (Persea).
Pico della Mirandola, ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN (Hackett Classics).
Machiavelli, THE PRINCE (Simon & Brown).
THEORIES AND MODELS
HISTORY 141
Ludwik Fleck, GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SCIENTIFIC FACT (Chicago).
Thomas S. Kuhn, THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS (Chicago).
Karl Popper, “Normal Science and Its Dangers,” AND Imre Lakatos, “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes,” both in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave, eds. (Cambridge). ALSO Sheldon S. Wolin, “Paradigms and Political Theories,” in Politics and Experience: Essays Presented to Professor Michael Oakeshott on the Occasion of His Retirement, Preston King and B. C. Parekh, eds. (Cambridge).
Sunny A. Auyang, FOUNDATIONS OF COMPLEX-SYSTEM THEORIES IN ECONOMICS, EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS (Cambridge).
Bernt P. Stigum, TOWARD A MORE FORMAL SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS: THE AXIOMATIC METHOD IN ECONOMICS AND ECONOMETRICS (The MIT Press), Introduction, pp. 1-33.
QUESTIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Anthony P. Cohen and Nigel Rapport, eds. (Routledge).
John Law, “On the methods of long-distance control: vessals, naviagation and the Portuguese route to India,” in John Law, ed. POWER, ACTION AND BELIEF (Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. 234-263.
PLATO: GORGIAS, MENEXENUS, PROTAGORAS, Malcom Scholfield, ed., Tom Griffith, tr. (Cambridge).
Nigel Warburton, A LITTLE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY (Yale).
FALL 2012
EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SINCE THE RENAISSANCE
History 216
Machiavelli, THE PRINCE (Penguin Classics).
Locke, THE SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT (Hackett).
Vico, THE NEW SCIENCE (Cornell).
Voltaire, CANDIDE (Penguin Classics).
Wollstonecraft, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (Penguin Classics).
Kant, THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON (Cambridge), WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT, PERPETUAL PEACE (both are in Kant: Political Writings, Cambridge University Press), and GROUNDING FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS (Hackett).
Darwin, THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE (Modern Library).
Mill, ON LIBERTY (Penguin Classics).
POLITICAL FICTION
History 294
Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE (Penguin Classics — find the J. M. Cohen translation).
Grimmelshausen, SIMPLICISSIMUS (Dedalus).
Swift, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (Oxford World’s Classics).
Voltaire, CANDIDE (Penguin Classics).
Manzoni, THE BETROTHED (Penguin Classics).
SPRING 2012
EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SINCE THE RENAISSANCE
History 216
Machiavelli, THE PRINCE (Penguin Classics).
Locke, THE SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT (Hackett).
Vico, THE NEW SCIENCE (Cornell).
Voltaire, CANDIDE (Penguin Classics).
Wollstonecraft, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (Penguin Classics).
Kant, ON THE SUBLIME AND THE BEAUTIFUL (Cambridge), CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON (Cambridge), WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? (Penguin Great Ideas), and GROUNDING OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS (Hackett).
Darwin, THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Penguin Classics).
Mill, ON LIBERTY (Penguin Classics).
AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSIONS
History 354
Intensive reading of Augustine’s CONFESSIONS (Penguin Classics) and related primary and secondary readings, including Kim Paffenroth and Robert P. Kennedy, eds., A READER’S COMPANION TO AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSIONS (Westminster John Knox Press).
FALL 2011
CLASSIC CHRISTIAN TEXTS
HISTORY 206
Augustine, CONFESSIONS (Penguin Classics).
Margery Kempe, THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE (Penguin Classics).
John Bunyan, THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS (Penguin Classics).
George MacDonald, THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN and THE PRINCESS AND CURDIE (both from Puffin Classics).
LOVE LETTERS FROM CELL 92: THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DIETRICH BONHOEFFER AND MARIA VON WEDEMEYER, 1943-45 (Abingdon Press).
THEORIES AND MODELS
HISTORY 399
Ludwik Fleck, GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SCIENTIFIC FACT (Chicago).
Thomas S. Kuhn, THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS (Chicago).
Sunny A. Auyang, FOUNDATIONS OF COMPLEX-SYSTEM THEORIES IN ECONOMICS, EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS (Cambridge University Press).
Daniel C. Dennett, CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED (Back Bay Books).
Steven E. Landsburg, THE BIG QUESTIONS: TACKLING THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY WITH IDEAS FROM MATHEMATICS, ECONOMICS, AND PHYSICS (Free Press).
SPRING 2011
POLITICAL FICTION
History 294
Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE (Penguin Classics).
Grimmelshausen, SIMPLICISSIMUS (Dedalus—NO substitution on translation/edition for this book).
Swift, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (Oxford World’s Classics).
Voltaire, CANDIDE (Penguin Classics).
Manzoni, THE BETROTHED (Penguin Classics).
CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
History 119
Luigi Barzini, THE ITALIANS (Touchstone).
John Hooper, THE NEW SPANIARDS, 2nd ed. (Penguin).
Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, SIXTY MILLION FRENCHMEN CAN’T BE WRONG (Portico OR Sourcebooks).
Mary Fulbrook, A HISTORY OF GERMANY, 1918-2008 (John Wiley & Sons).
Jeremy Paxman, THE ENGLISH (Penguin).