Humanities 2A Reading List and Semester Plan: Fall Cooper, Lindahl, Peter, Scaff

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1 Humanities 2A Reading List and Semester Plan: Fall Cooper, Lindahl, Peter, Scaff Locations for Lecture and Seminars: Lectures are in Washington Square Hall 109 Tuesdays and Thursdays at Seminars immediately follow are in the following rooms at 1200: Cooper Seminar (section 11): Sweeny Hall 240 Scaff Seminar (section 21): Engineering Building 232 Peter Seminar (section 31): Clark Hall 225 Lindahl Seminar (section 41): Sweeny Hall 241 Daily Reading List: 1. Thursday August 25. Italian and Spanish Baroque Art Read: Stokstad, Art History, Volume 4, pages Tuesday August 30. Society & Culture in Early Modern Europe The Novel (SS1) Read: Cervantes Don Quixote in Norton volume C: pages Thursday September 1. Scientific Revolution: Bacon and Newton Read: Enlightenment Reader: Francis Bacon, The New Science, pp ; Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy pp.43-47; Isaac Newton, Argument for a Deity, pages Web: Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina; Copernicus, On the Movement of the Earth. Continue Cervantes, Norton C, pages , Tuesday September 6. Rationalism: Descartes and Pascal Read: Philosophic Classics: Rene Descartes, Meditations 1-3, pages , ; Blaise Pascal, Pensées, pages Thursday September 8. Late Baroque and Rococo Art Read: Stokstad, Art History, Volume 4, Pages Tuesday September 13. Sor Juana Read: Norton, Volume D; From the letter, "The Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sor Filotea de la Cruz" pages ; Philosophical Satire (Poem 92), pages Thursday September 15. Milton in Literary and Historical Perspective Read: Milton s Paradise Lost in Norton volume C, pages , Tuesday September 20. Baroque Music Read: Continue Milton s Paradise Lost in Norton volume C: pages This is the course reading list and not the full syllabus/greensheet. Each seminar provides its students with the full syllabus/greensheet which contains all the relevant information about the course and its assessment. 1

2 9. Thursday September 22. American Founding Read: Web: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity Tuesday September 27. Locke and Hobbes: Variations on the Social Contract Read: Philosophic Classics: Hobbes, pages Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader, Locke, pages Thursday September 29. Empiricism in Philosophy: Locke Read: Philosophic Classics: Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, pages , Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, pages , Tuesday October 4. The Enlightenment as Intellectual and Social movements Read: Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader, Kant What is Enlightenment? pages 1-7; Condorcet, The Future Progress of the Human Mind pages 26-38; Turgot, On Progress pages Thursday October 6. Rousseau: Discourse on Origins of Inequality Read: Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, pages Tuesday October 11. America: The Revolution Read: Heffner, Documentary History of the United States, Chapter One Declaration of Independence pages 3-15; Enlightenment Reader; Paine, pages Continue Rousseau: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, pages Thursday October 13. America: The Constitution Read: Heffner, Documentary History of the United States, Chapter Two The Law of the Land including the United States Constitution and James Madison s Federalist Number Ten, pages Tuesday October 18. Classical Music ***Midterm at 12:00 in Seminar rooms*** 17. Thursday October 20. The French Revolution Read: The Abbe Sieyes, What is the Third Estate? : Petition of the Women of the Third Estate to the King : The Tennis Court Oath: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen in Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader, pages Olympe de Gouges The Rights of Woman in Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader, pages Robespierre, The Political Philosophy of Terror : 2

3 18. Tuesday October 25. Jeffersonian Republicanism Read: Heffner, Documentary History of the United States, Chapter Five The Jeffersonian Revolution, pages Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader, Jefferson Religion.my views of it pages Web: Jefferson, The Virginia Act for Religious Freedom. 19. Thursday October 27. Gender, Race, and the Other in the Enlightenment Read: Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader: Review De Gouges, pages ; Wollstonecraft, pages ; Kant, pages ; Diderot, pages ; Long, page 644 ; Paine, pages ; Jefferson, pages ; Encyclopedia Britannica, page Tuesday November 1. Neoclassical Literature and Social Commentary Read: Swift in Norton D, A Modest Proposal, and Gulliver s Travels: pages Thursday November 3. Neoclassicism in Art Read: Stokstad volume 6, pages Continue Swift, pages Tuesday November 8. Adam Smith: Moral Philosopher and Political Economist Read: Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader, Adam Smith, The Impartial Spectator pages ; The Wealth of Nations, pages Thursday November 10. Immanuel Kant Read: Enlightenment Reader: Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, pages Philosophic Classics: Kant, Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics, pages , Tuesday November 15 Goethe and Romanticism in Literature Read: Goethe s Faust in Norton E: pages , Thursday November 17. Romantic Art Read: Stokstad: volume 6, pages , , ; Continue Goethe s Faust in Norton E: pages , Tuesday November 22. British Romantic Poetry Read: Norton, Volume E: William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence), page 337, The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Experience), pages ; William Wordsworth, Ode on Intimations of Immortality, pages ; Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stanzas Written in Dejection December 1818, near Naples, page 398; Ode to the West Wind, pages ; from A Defense of Poetry, pages THANKSGIVING BREAK NO CLASS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24 3

4 27. Tuesday November 29. Poe and Hawthorne Read: Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher and other Tales, pages ; Hawthorne Ethan Brand, in Ethan Brand, pages 5-end. 28. Thursday December December 1. Melville Read: Norton, Volume E: Melville Bartleby the Scrivener, pages Tuesday December 6. Romantic Music Read: Continue discussion of Melville. 30. Thursday December 8. Manifest Destiny and the Movement West Read: John L. O Sullivan, The Great Nation of Futurity (1839) Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1851) Two Accounts of the Trail of Tears: Wahnenauhi and Private John G. Burnett Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James FINAL EXAMINATIONS: Thursday, December 15, 9:45 12:00. Short Answer Final in LECTURE hall. Monday December 19, 9:45 12:00. Long Answer Final in SEMINAR rooms. 4

5 Book List for Humanities 2A Stokstad and Cothren. Art History, Portable edition vols.1-6, 5 th edition. (Pearson), ISBN Baird, Forrest, ed. Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida, 6 th edition. (Pearson / Prentice Hall), ISBN: Mack, M. et. Al. eds. Norton Anthology of World Literature, vols, C, D, E, F 3 rd edition. (Norton), ISBN McInerny, D.Q. Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking. (Random House Trade Paperbacks), ISBN Lunsford, Andrea. The Everyday Writer, 5th ed. (Bedford/St. Martin s), (Available free to SJSU students through Canvas link) Kramnick, ed. Enlightenment Reader, Viking Portable Library., ISBN Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Ethan Brand. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 10, 2012), ISBN Heffner, A Documentary History of the United States, Expanded and Updated Edition. (Signet,) ISBN Poe, Edgar Allen. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales. (Signet Classics,) ISBN Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality. (Hackett,) ISBN Sprague, J., Stuart, D., and Bodary, D., The Speaker s Compact Handbook, 5 th edition. (Wadsworth Cengage), ISBN Note on expense, usage, and purchase of books: You should already own many of the texts listed in the booklist above since these were used in Hum 1B. You will need the Norton anthology volume C from past semesters and we will add volumes D,E, F which will be used in both 2A and 2B. The Rousseau, Heffner, Poe, Hawthorne and Kramnick texts are new to the booklist. The other books you were required to purchase last semester. Again, do not sell the main texts at the end of the semester as we will continue to use most of them in the future. On any given day you will need to have a physical copy of the book that is assigned and you will need to bring it with you to class. Lectures and seminars often make reference to specific quotations on specific pages and you will need to open your book during class to be able to follow and take notes. Different editions of books or e-books usually do not have the same page numbers and will leave you lost in class. It is also productive to shop around. The Spartan bookstore, of course, has all of the required books but tends not to be very competitive in pricing. You can save a substantial amount of money ordering the books from retailers like Amazon. But, be careful! Many of the books have different versions and different editions particularly if purchased used. The isbns are listed above to assist you in making sure you have the right book if you get it from another source. If the isbn is right, the book is right. Online Readings [Website]: Online readings will be found on Professor Lindahl s website here: 5

Humanities 2A: Fall 2015, Lecture Schedule

Humanities 2A: Fall 2015, Lecture Schedule Please note that this schedule is REVISED AS OF 13 August. Students will be notified if changes occur, both in class, and electronically through MySJSU, if needed.