WEEK I (January 24-28):

Shakespeare, The Tempest

Stephen Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse" (in pamphlet)

Stephen Greenblatt, "Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne" (in pamphlet)

Lecture: Shakespeare and the Disciplines of Culture (Knapp)

WEEK II (January 31-February 4):

Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream (in pamphlet)

John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 89-171

Jean Delumeau, "Christianization" (in pamphlet)

Lecture: Free Will in Calderon and in the Catholic Reformation (Knapp)

WEEK III (February 7-11):

Galileo, The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, 1-58, 175-227

Francis Bacon, "The Great Instauration" (in pamphlet)

Bacon, "Thoughts and Conclusions" (in pamphlet)

Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 200-216

Lecture: What’s New in the New Science (Bedau)

WEEK IV (February 14-20):

Descartes, Discourse on Method & Meditations on First Philosophy

Lecture: The Cartesian Revolution (Bedau)

WEEK V (February 21-25):

Pascal, Pensées, §§ 1-202 (pp. 33-95), §§ 418-431 (pp. 149-164), §§ 512-514 (pp. 210-212)

Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 58-68; 82-92; 152-164

Lecture: Pascal's Wager (Bedau)
 

WEEK VI (February 28-March 3):

Norman Bryson, Word and Image, 1-88

Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvray, The Age of Magnificence: The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon (selections, in pamphlet)

Lecture: Art and Absolutism (Ray)

WEEK VII (March 6-10):

Behn, The Rover

Moliere, The Misanthrope

Dunn, The Age of the Religious Wars, 178-189

Lecture: Comedy and the Social Order (Knapp)

WEEK VIII (March 13-17):

Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves

Lecture: History, Fiction, and Discursive Power (Ray)

WEEK IX (March 27-31):

Hobbes, Leviathan

Book I, Introduction and chapters 1-6, 10, 12-16 (pp. 9-46, 62-69, 75-115);

Book II, chapters 17-22, 24, 26, 29-31 (pp. 117-65, 170-76, 183-200, 221-254); Book III, chapters 32, 43 (pp. 255-59, 402-15);

Review and Conclusion (pp. 483-91)

Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, chap. 3, & pp. 189-198

Lecture (on Monday): The Challenges of Materialism (Bedau)

Lecture (on Wednesday): The Project of Civil Philosophy (Garrett)

WEEK X (April 3-7):

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Lecture: Freedom and Fall (Knapp)

WEEK XI (April 10-14):

John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding (selections, in pamphlet)

John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government

Lecture (on Monday): Appearance and Reality in the Scientific Age (Bedau)

Lecture (on Wednesday): God, Reason, and the Social Contract (Garrett)

WEEK XII (April 17-21):

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Lecture: Individualism and the Novel (Ray)

WEEK XIII (April 24-28):

Tatler and The Spectator (selections, in pamphlet)

Montesquieu, Persian Letters

Lecture: Reason, Culture, and the Public Sphere (Ray)

 

Books for Purchase

Hum 210 Pamphlet, Spring 2000 (available for purchase in Bookstore).

Shakespeare, Wm. The Tempest. (ed. S. Orgel). Oxford U. P.

Bossy, John. Christianity in the West.. Oxford U.P. (Opus Books).

Galileo. Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (trans. Stillman Drake). Anchor Books.

Dunn, Richard S. The Age of the Religious Wars: 1559-1715. Norton.

Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method and Meditations (trans. Cress). 3rd. ed. Hackett.

Pascal, Blaise. Pensees (trans. A.J. Krailsheimer). Penguin Classics.

Bryson, Norman. Word and Image: French Painting of Ancien Regime. Cambridge.

Behn, Aphra. The Rover , Oxford.

Moliere. The Misanthrope (trans. Ranjit Bolt), Oberon.

de Lafayette, Madame. The Princess of Cleves (trans. W.J. Cobb). Meridian Classic.

Milton, John. Paradise Lost an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism, Norton.

Hobbes. Leviathan (ed. Richard Tuck). Cambridge.

Locke, John. Second Treatise on Civil Government (ed. C.B. MacPherson). Hackett.

Defoe, Daniel. Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Penguin Classics.

Montesquieu, Persian Letters (trans. C. J. Betts), Penguin Classics.

Lectures will be on Mondays unless otherwise indicated.

Online:

The Humanities 210 syllabus will be available on the course's web page which can be reached through Reed's main page via Academic Life and Course Materials, or directly at this address: <http://academic.reed.edu/Humanities/>. The syllabus is also available on the Courses Server (via the Chooser in the Zone Academic Servers).