WEEK I (January 26-30):

Shakespeare, The Tempest
Stephen Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse," in his Learning to Curse, 16-39*

Lecture: Shakespeare's Labor (Sacks)

WEEK II (February 2-6):

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: Calderon and the Counter-Reformation (Knapp)

WEEK III (February 9-13):

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 (Bedau)

WEEK IV (February 16-20):

Descartes, Discourse on Method & Meditations on First Philosophy
Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, 119-165

Lecture: The Ghost in the Machine (Sacks)

WEEK V (February 23-27):

Pascal, Pensées, 33-95, 149-164, 210-212
Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 58-68; 82-92; 152-164

Lecture: Pascal's Wager (Bedau)

WEEK VI (March 1-5):

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*
Bryson, Word and Image, 29-88

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

WEEK VII (March 8-12):

Racine, Phaedre
Moliere, Tartuffe
Dunn, The Age of the Religious Wars, 178-189

Lecture: Staging Virtue (Steinman)

SPRING BREAK (March 17-21)

WEEK VIII (March 22-26):

Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves

Lecture: Discourse, Identity, History and Fiction (Ray)

WEEK IX (March 29-April 2):

'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: Uncloistered Virtue (Sacks)

WEEK X (April 5-9):

Hobbes, Leviathan, Book I, Introduction and chapters 1-6, 10, 12-16; Book II, chapters 17-22, 24, 26, 29-31; Book III, chapters 32,43; Review and Conclusion

Lecture: Hobbes and Skepticism (Sacks)

WEEK XI (April 12-16):

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

Lecture: The Politics of Paradise Lost (Knapp)

WEEK XII (April 19-23):

John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government
John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 244-254; 263-271; 294-307.*

Lecture: Locke's Epistemology and Politics (Bedau)

WEEK XIII (April 26-April 30):

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Lecture: Marooned: Crusoe and the Modern World (Knapp)

Books for Purchase

Shakespeare, William. The Tempestr (ed. S. Orgel). Oxford
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. Christianit y 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. Hackett.
Pascal, Blaise. Pensees (trans. A.J. Krailsheimer). Penguin Classics.
Bryson, Norman. Word and Image: French Painting in the Ancien Régime. Cambridge UP.
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. Areopagitica. Liberty Foundation.
Milton, John. Paradise Lose (ed. John Leonard). Penguin Classics.
Hobbes. Leviathan (ed. Richard Tuck). Cambridge.
Locke, John. Second Treatise on Civil Government (ed. C. B. MacPherson). Hackett.
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Penguin Classics

Lectures will be on Mondays unless announced otherwise in class. 

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