Note: To allow conversations in class, it is important that everyone in conference be reading the same edition of the course texts. The editions listed at the end of this syllabus (and available in the bookstore) have been chosen with an eye to keeping costs low and scholarly standards high.

WEEK I (January 22-26)

Shakespeare, The Tempest

Stephen Greenblatt, “Learning to Curse,” in his Learning to Curse, 16-39*

Lecture: Shakespeare’s Labor (Sacks)

WEEK II (January 29-February 2)

Selected Canons from The Council of Trent The Thirteenth and the Twenty-Second Sessions. Available at http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent.htm

Selections from St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (114-16, 121-182)*

John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 89-152

Howard Hibbard, Bernini, pp. 68-167

Robert Harrison, Reflections on the Baroque, pp. 1-32.*

Lecture: Bernini's Art and the Counter Reformation (Katz)

WEEK III (February 5-9)

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

Francis Bacon, "The Great Instauration" (from 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: Descartes: The Ghost in the Machine (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): NOTE THAT THERE ARE TWO LECTURES THIS WEEK – ONE MONDAY, ONE WEDNESDAY – IN THE PSYCHOLOGY AUDITORIUM AT 1:10

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*

Peter Burke, The Fabrication of Louis XIV, pp. 1-59, 85-105

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

(Wed) Lecture: Versailles and the King's Image (Katz)

WEEK VII (March 5-9)

Racine, Phaedre

Moliere, Tartuffe

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

Lecture: Staging Virtue (Steinman)

— SPRING BREAK (March 12-16) —

WEEK VIII (March 19-23)

Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves

Lecture: The Subject of Power (Steinman)

WEEK IX (March 26-30)

“Agreement of the People,” & “The Putney Debates” (from Divine Right and Democracy, ed. D. Wootton, 283-317)*

Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 164-178

John Milton, Areopagitica

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

Lecture: Uncloistered Virtue (Sacks)

WEEK X (April 2-6)

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 9-14)

John Milton, Paradise Lost

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

WEEK XII (April 16-20)

John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government

John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Epistle to the Reader, I.I, I.II, II.I, II.II, II.VIII, II.XII.1, II.XVII, II.XXIII, III.I, III.II, III.III.1-8, III.X.1-7, IV.1, IV.II, IV. III.1-6.

Lecture: Locke: Epistemology and Politics (Jenkins)

WEEK XIII (April 23-27)

Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, Persian Letters (trans. C. J. Betts)

Addison, Joseph, and Steele, Richard. The Tatler and The Spectator, selections in the course packet*. The complete runs of The Tatler and The Spectator are available online at: <www.gutenberg.org/etext/9334> and <www.meta.monclair.edu/spectator>

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

Books for Purchase
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest (ed. S. Orgel). Oxford.
Hum 210 Pamphlet (available for purchase in Bookstore).
Bossy, John. Christianity in the West. Oxford U.P.
Hibbard, Howard. Bernini. Penguin Art and Architecture Series.
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.
Burke, Peter. The Fabrication of Louis XIV. Yale.
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 Lost (ed. John Leonard). Penguin Classics.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan (ed. Richard Tuck). Cambridge.
Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government Dover Thrift Edition
Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding . ed. Yolton. Abridged edition. Everyman
Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, Persian Letters. Penguin Classics

Lectures will be on Mondays unless announced otherwise in class.
* Indicates that readings will be available in the Course Pamphlet.