Revised Calendar

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Revised Half Semester Calendar

March 19

Spring Break

 

 

March 26

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

Hume, Of the Original Contract

Kant, What is Enlightenment?

Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

 

April 2

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Mill, On Liberty

Mill, The Subjection of Women

 

April 9

George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) and Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right

Marx, On the Jewish Question

Marx, Toward a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Marx, Alienated Labor

Marx, Theses on Feuerbach

 

April 16

Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

Marx and Engels, The German Ideology

Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto

April 23

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

 

April 30

Rawls, Justice as Fairness

de Beauvoir, Introduction to The Second Sex

Freeman, Introduction to The Politics of Women's Liberation

Rowbotham, Conclusion to Woman's Consciousness, Man's World

Lorde, The Master's Tools

May 7

Gramsci, The Revolution Against Capital

Mao, Contradictions among the People

Hitler, Nation and Race

Foucault, Truth and Power

Fanon, Concerning Violence

Merchant, Epilogue to The Death of Nature

 

 

 

 

Recommended Reading

   

 

 

Perspectives in Democratic Theory

Habermas, The Public Sphere

Jaspers, The Future of Mankind

Rawls, Justice as Fairness

Dewey, Search for the Great Community

Arendt, The Public and Private Realm

Oakeshott, On Being Conservative

Buber, In the Midst of Crisis

 

 

Changing the World

Luxemburg, Democracy and Dictatorship

Rosselli, Liberal Socialism

Pachter, Aphorisms on Socialism

Lenin, What Is To Be Done?

Gramsci, The Revolution Against Capital

Mussolini, Fundamental Ideas

Hitler, Nation and Race

 

 

 

 

 

The Radical Imagination

Horkeimer, The State of Contemporary Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research

Lyotard, Introduction to The Postmodern Condition

Foucault, Truth and Power

Butler, Contingent Foundations

Said, Introduction to Orientalism

Gandhi, The Doctrine of the Sword

Fanon, Concerning Violence

Guevara, Building New Men

 

 

New Social Movements

DuBois, Socialism and the American Negro

King, Letter from Birmingham Jail

X, The Ballot or the Bullet

de Beauvoir, Introduction to The Second Sex

Freeman, Introduction to The Politics of Women’s Liberation

Merchant, Epilogue to The Death of Nature