WEEK I (January 27-30):

Shakespeare, King Lear
Stephen Greenblatt, "Shakespeare and the Exorcists," from Shakespearean Negotiations, 94-128*

Lecture: Plain Speech and Foolish Prophecy (Steinman)

WEEK II (February 3-7):

Monuments, which will be made available on the Hum 210 image website [URL TBA]: Il Gesu, Rome; Bernini, Baldacchino and Cathedra Petri, Rome, Saint Peter's; Bernini, Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, Rome; Bernini, Cornaro Chapel, Rome, Santa Maria della Vittoria Ignatius of Loyola, selections from The Spiritual Exercises and Selected Works, 121-182* Selections from canons and decrees of the Council of Trent, from Creeds of the Churches, 429-439*

Lecture: Art, Architecture, and the Theater of the Mass in the Counter Reformation (Weigert)

WEEK III (February 10-14):

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 Sciences of Nature in the Renaissance (Drayton)

WEEK IV (February 17-21):

Descartes, Discourse on Method & Meditations on First Philosophy

Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, 119-165

Lecture: The New Philosophy and the "Scientific Revolution" (Drayton)

WEEK V (February 24-28):

Pascal, Pensées, 33-95 [Penseés # 1-203], 149-164 [The Wager; Penseés # 418--431], 210-212

[Penseés # 512-514]

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

Lecture: Pascal's Wager (Bedau)

WEEK VI (March 3-7):

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: The King's Image (Weigert)

WEEK VII (March 10-14):

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

Racine, Phaedre

Moliere, Tartuffe

Lecture: Staging Virtue (Steinman)

SPRING BREAK (March 17-21)

WEEK VIII (March 24-28):

Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves

Lecture: The Subject of Power (Steinman)

WEEK IX (March 31-April 4):

'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 (Kierstead)

WEEK X (April 7-11):

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 (Bedau)

WEEK XI (April 14-18):

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

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

WEEK XII (April 21-25):

John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government

John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 244-254; 263-271; 294-307.*

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

WEEK XIII (April 28-May 2):

Voltaire, Candide

Lecture: Paradise Revisited: Enlightenment Taxonomies (Steinman)

Books for Purchase

Shakespeare, William. Lear (ed. S. Orgel). Penguin

Hum 210 Pamphlet (available for purchase in Bookstore).

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 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 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. 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.

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://web.reed.edu/academic/departments/Humanities/>. The syllabus is also available on the Courses Server (via the Chooser in the Zone Academic Servers).