Texts in order of use:
Robert Tucker, ed.: The Marx-Engels Reader (Norton)
Marshall Berman: All that is Solid Melts into Air (Penguin)
T.J. Clark: The Painting of Modern Life (Princeton)
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (Bantam)
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground (Bantam)
Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals (Random House)
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Edition)
Peter Gay, ed.: The Freud Reader (Norton)
Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories (Schocken)
Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford)
Clement Greenberg: Art and Culture (Beacon)
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and Other Poems (Harcourt Brace)
Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Riverrun Press)
Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution (Oxford "New Edition")
Robert Tucker, ed.: The Lenin Anthology (Norton)
Detlev Peukert: Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life (Yale)
Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz (Collier)
There are also readings on reserve from Robert Hughes: The Shock of the New, and a Humanities 220 Second Semester pamphlet.
WEEKS 1 and 2 (JAN. 26-FEB. 6): MARX AND MODERNITY
Robert Tucker, ed.: The Marx Reader (your instructor will select the readings for your conference)
Marshall Berman: All that is Solid Melts into Air, 87-129
First lecture on Marx: Peter Steinberger, Mon., Jan. 26
Second lecture on Marx: Christine Mueller, Mon., Feb. 2
WEEK 3 (FEB. 9-13): MID-CENTURY PARIS, MANET, AND MODERNITY
T.J. Clark: The Painting of Modern Life, Chap. 1 and 3
Baudelaire, selected poems from Paris Spleen (Humanities pamphlet)
Optional: Berman: All that is Solid Melts into Air, 131-164
Lecture on Manet: William Diebold, Mon., Feb. 9
WEEK 4 (FEB. 16-20): AN END TO ROMANTICISM: REALISM AS SUBVERSION
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Flaubert: "The Novelist on his Art," 311-329
Lecture on Madame Bovary: Rachel Shuh, Wed., Feb. 18
WEEK 5 (FEB. 23-27): IRRATIONALITY AND THE MORAL LIFE
Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals, I and II
Optional: Berman: All that is Solid Melts into Air, 174-195, 206-232
Lecture on Dostoevsky: Scott Smith, Mon., Feb. 23
Lecture on Nietzsche: David Reeve, Wed., Feb. 25
WEEK 6 (MAR. 2-6): EUROPE ENCOUNTERS "ERS "THE OTHER"
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
"Backgrounds and Sources" in the Norton Critical Third Edition, pp. 79-81, 84-97, 103-113, 125-130
Critical essays in the Norton Critical Third Edition, by Chinua Achebe: "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," Frances B. Singh: "The Colonialistic Bias of Heart of Darkness," and C.P. Sarvan: "Racism and the Heart of Darkness"
Lecture on Heart of Darkness: Roger Porter, Wed., Mar. 4
WEEK 7 (MAR. 9-13): THE UNCONSCIOUS
Peter Gay, ed.: The Freud Reader (your instructor will select the readings for your conference)
Lecture on Freud: Lena Lencek, Mon., Mar. 9
WEEK 8 (MAR. 16-20)): MODERN ANXIETY
Kafka: The Complete Stories (your instructor will select the readings for your conference)
Lecture on Kafka: Roger Porter, Mon., Mar. 16
WEEK 9 (MAR. 30-MAR. 31): THE GREAT WAR
Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory, chapt. 1-2
Selected poetry from the World War (Humanities pamphlet)
Lecture on World War I: Ed Segel, Mon., Mar. 30
WEEKS 9-10 (APRIL 1- 10): DIFFICULTY IN MODERN POETRY, MUSIC AND ART
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Clement Greenberg: Art and Culture, 3-33, 70-83, 133-138, 154-157
Robert Hughes: The Shock of the New (on reserve only), 15-34
Alban Berg: Wozzeck (the libretto). The video presentation of the opera is Sun., April 5, and Mon., April 6, both nights at 7:30 p.m., in the Psychology Auditorium. (The film is approximately 1 1/2 hours long.)
Lecture on The Waste Land: Ellen Stauder, Wed., April 1
Lecture on Modern Art: William Diebold, Wed., April 8
Lecture on Wozzeck: David Schiff, Mon., April 6
WEEK 11 (APRIL 13-17): THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution, 15-31, 40-67, 83-92
Robert Tucker, ed.: The Lenin Anthology, 23-31, 67-79, 311-325, 335-346, 368-394, 423-432, 461-488
Lecture on the Russian Revolution: Scott Smith, Mon., April 13
WEEK 12 (April 20-24): THE RISE OF NAZISM
Detlev Peukert: Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life, 14-46, 67-96, 145-174, 182-242
The Triumph of the Will (film). The video presentation of the film is Tues., April 21, and Wed., April 22, both nights at 7:00 p.m., in the Psychology Auditorium. Katja Garloff will give an introduction to the film. (The film is approximately 3 hours long).
Susan Sontag: "Fascinating Fascism" (Humanities pamphlet)
Lecture on Nazi Germany: Scott Smith, Mon., April 20
Lecture on The Nazi Aesthetic: William Diebold, Wed., April 22
WEEK 13 (April 27-MAY 1): THE HOLOCAUST
Primo Levi: Survival at Auschwitz
Shoah, Part I (film). The video presentation of the film is Tues., April 28, and Wed., April 29, both nights at 7:00 p.m., in the Psychology Auditorium. (The film is approximately 4 1/2 hours long).
Lecture on the Holocaust: Katja Garloff, Mon. April 27