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I. ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE CRITICAL INTELLECTUAL

Week 1 (Aug 31)

Voltaire, Candide
Diderot, Encyclopedie, selected articles and plates (ereserves)

M: How to be a Modern Human (Benjamin Lazier)
W: Diderot and the Encylopedia: The Limits of Knowledge and the Problem of Finitude (Rob Slifkin)
F: Loving Me: Rousseau and the Promise of Republicanism (Benjamin Lazier)

Week 2 (Sep 7)

LABOR DAY: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 (NO LECTURE)

Rousseau, Political Writings, selections by instructor

Week 3 (Sep 14)

Kant, Basic Writings, selections by instructor

M: Categorical Imperatives and their Vicissitudes (Jan Mieszkowski)

II. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE CITIZEN

Week 4 (Sep 21)

Mozart, Don Giovanni
Screening: Sunday, September 20, 6pm, Eliot 314; Monday, September 21, 6pm, Psych 105
Mason and Rizzo, The French Revolution: A Document Collection, selections by instructor

M: Enigmas of Don Giovanni – Whose Side is Mozart On Anyway? (Ed Segel)
W: The Coming of the French Revolution: The Promise of Redemption (Ed Segel)

Week 5 (Sep 28)

Burke, selections from Collected Works (ereserves)
Paine, selections from The Rights of Man (ereserves)
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, selections by instructor

M: The Revolution: Against (Burke) and For (Paine): History as Authority and as Burden (Ed Segel)
W: Mary Wollstonecraft: From Villification to Vindication (Lena Lencek)

Week 6 (Oct 5)

Mason and Rizzo, The French Revolution, selections by instructor
Timothy Tackett, “Conspiracy Obsession in Times of Revolution” (ereserves)
Francois Furet, “Terror” (ereserves)
Robespierre, “On the Principles of Political Morality” (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1794robespierre.html)
Thomas Crow, "Patriotism and Virtue" in Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History (ereserves)

M: Revolution as Terror: Reaping the Whirlwind (Ed Segel)
W: Jacques-Louis David: Representation and Democracy (Rob Slifkin) (image gallery - note: for off-campus access use the Library's proxy)

III. ROMANTICISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL

Week 7 (Oct 12)

Hoffmann, "The Sandman" (ereserves)
Rousseau, Confessions, selections by instructor

M: “Whose Hideous Voice is This?” – Hoffmann and the Romantic Tradition (Jan Mieszkowski)
W: Ego on Display: The Confessions of Rousseau (Roger Porter)

FALL BREAK

Week 8 (Oct 26)

Wordsworth, selections by instructor

M: Nature and Mind: The Poetry of Wordsworth (Roger Porter)

Week 9 (Nov 2)

Goethe, Faust

M: Goethe’s Faust (Katja Garloff)
W: Beethoven: Musical Revolutionary? (Ed Segel)

Week 10 (Nov 9)

Shelley, Frankenstein

M: Lecture on Frankenstein (Maureen Harkin)

IV. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Week 11 (Nov 16)

Selections from Voices of the Indsustrial Revolution (ereserves)
Smith, The Essential Adam Smith, 64-88 (ereserves)
Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (9-13, 189-212, 314-374, 711-746)

M: Lecture on Smith (Maureen Harkin)
W: Industrial Revolution: Market, Machine, and their Ideologies (Ed Segel)

Week 12 (Nov 23)

Marx, Marx-Engels Reader (selections by instructor)

M: Thoughts on Marx (Peter Steinberger)

THANKSGIVING

Week 13 (Nov 30)

Marx, Marx-Engels Reader (selections by instructor)
Dickens, Hard Times

M: Through His Death We Shall Live: Marx in His Time and Ours (Benjamin Lazier)
W: Lecture on Dickens (Maureen Harkin)

Week 14 (Dec 7)

Dickens, Hard Times

LAST DAY OF CLASSES: DEC 9