Humanities 211/212

WEEK I (January 31-February 4)

Shakespeare, The Tempest

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

Lecture: Shakespeare's Labor (Sacks)

WEEK II (February 7-11)

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 Harbison, Reflections on the Baroque, pp. 1-32*

Lecture: Bernini and the Counter Reformation (Katz)

WEEK III (February 14-18)

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 (Bedau)

WEEK IV (February 21-25)

Descartes, Discourse on Method & Meditations on First Philosophy

Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, 119-165

Lecture: The Cartesian Revolution (Bedau)

WEEK V (February 28-March 4)

Pascal, Pensées, 33-95, 121-127, 149-164, 210-212, 234-237, 285-286

Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 58-68; 82-92; 152-164

Lecture: Pascal (Miller)

WEEK VI (March 7-11)

Note that there are two lectures this week—one Monday, one Wednesday—in the Psychology Auditorium at 1:10pm

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 XI, pp. 1-59, 85-105

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

Lecture: Versailles and the King's Distinction (Katz)

WEEK VII (March 14-18)

Racine, Phaedre

Molière, Tartuffe

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

Lecture: Staging Virtue (Steinman)

WEEK VIII (March 28-April 1)

Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves

Lecture: The Subject of Power (Steinman)

WEEK IX (April 4-8)

"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 11-15)

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 18-22)

John Milton, Paradise Lost

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

WEEK XII (April 25-29)

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: Labor and Liberty (Sacks)

WEEK XIII (May 2-6)

Voltaire, Candide

Lecture: Paradise and Liberty Revisited: Enlightenment Taxonomies (Steinman)