WEEK I (January 22-26):

Shakespeare, The Tempest

Stephen Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse"*

Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations, 129-163*

Lecture: Shakespeare and the Disciplines of Culture (Knapp)

WEEK II (January 29-February 2):

Calderón de la Barca, Life is a Dream

John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 89-152

Jean Delumeau, Catholicism Between Luther and Voltaire, 175-202*

Lecture: (Monday) The Renaissance Magus in Context (Anthony Grafton)

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

WEEK III (February 5-9):

Galileo, The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, 23-58, 175-216.

Francis Bacon, "The Great Instauration" (in Edwin A. Burtt, ed. The English Philosophers)*

Bacon, "Thoughts and Conclusions"*

Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, 1-117

Lecture: The New Science (Garrett)

WEEK IV (February 12-16):

Descartes, Discourse on Method & Meditations on First Philosophy

Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, 119-165

Lecture: The Cartesian Revolution (Sacks)

WEEK V (February 19-23):

Pascal, Pensées, 33-95, 149-164, 210-212

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

Lecture: Pascal (Kierstead)

WEEK VI (February 26-March 2):

Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvray, The Age of Magnificence: The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, (selected, edited, translated by Sanche de Gramont), 21-23, 185-90, 40-50, 97-100, 135-178*

Bossuet, Jacques- Benigne, Politics Drawn from the Holy Scriptures, pp. 57-106*

Lecture: Louis XIV: Court and Society in Seventeenth-Century France (Kierstead)

WEEK VII (March 5-9):

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

Racine, Phaedre

Moliere, Tartuffe

Lecture: Staging Virtue (Steinman)

 

WEEK VIII (March 12-16):

Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves

Lecture: The Subject of Power (Steinman)

&endash;SPRING BREAK (March 17-25)&endash;

WEEK IX (March 26-30):

'Agreement of the People,' & 'The Putney Debates,' in: Divine Right and Democracy, ed. D. Wootton, 283-317*

Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 164-178

John Milton, 'Areopagitica,' in: The Portable Milton

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

Lecture: The English Revolution (Knapp)

WEEK X (April 2-6):

Hobbes, Leviathan, Book I, Introduction and chapters 1-6, 10, 12-16 (9-46, 62-69, 75-115); Book II, chapters 17-22, 24, 26, 29-31 (117-65, 170-76, 183-200, 221-254); Book III, chapters 32, 43 (255-59, 402-15); Review and Conclusion (483-91)

Lecture: Hobbes and Skepticism (Garrett)

WEEK XI (April 9-13):

John Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' in The Portable Milton

Lecture: Reading the World of the English Revolution (Steinman)

WEEK XII (April 16-20):

John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government

Lecture: Labor and Liberty (Garrett)

WEEK XIII (April 20-27):

Voltaire, Candide

Lecture: Paradise, Labor and Liberty Revisited: Enlightenment Taxonomies (Steinman)

Books for Purchase

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

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Life is a Dream. (trans. John Clifford). Nick Hern Books.

Hum 210 Pamphlet (available for purchase in Bookstore).

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.

Shapin, Steven. The Scientific Revolution. Chicago.

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

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

Racine, Jean. Iphigenia; Phaedra; Athaliah. (trans. John Cairncross). Penguin Classics.

Moliere. Tartuffe (trans. Richard Wilbur). Harcourt Brace.

de Lafayette, Madame. The Princess of Cleves (trans. John Lyons). Norton.

Milton, John. The Portable Milton (ed. Douglas Bush). Penguin Books.

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

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

Voltaire Candide. (trans.David Gordon). St. Martin’s Press.

Lectures will be on Mondays only except for week two or unless announced otherwise in class.

* Indicates that readings will be available in the Course Pamphlet.