CULTURES and TRADITIONS: Spring Semester 1999
[Underlined readings contain internet links]
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LECTURE: The Enlightenment (Melissa Butler) |
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Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment? [Readings Book B] |
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John
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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"Declaration of Independence," "Bill of Rights," and the "Declaration of the Rights of Man." [Readings Book D] |
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Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (selections) [Readings Book E] |
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Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Human Mind (selections) and David Hume, "Of Miracles" (selections) [Readings Book F] |
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Romantic Prose and Poetry [Readings Book G] |
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John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (selections) [Readings Book H] |
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LECTURE: Extensions and Excesses of the Enlightenment Dream (Cheryl Hughes) |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments," and "The Solitude of Self" [Readings Book I] |
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, and The Communist Manifesto (selections) [Readings Book J] |
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: First Part, The Gay Science, and "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense" (selections) [Readings Book K] |
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Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents (selections) |
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LECTURE: Crisis of the Enlightenment: The Holocaust (Stephen Webb) |
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Jewish Life in Pre-War Europe. Stories: I. L. Peretz, "The Golem"; Sholem Asch, "Kola Street"; Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Gimpel the Fool"; Photographs from Roman Vishniac, A Vanished World (slides) [Readings Book L] |
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Holocaust Poetry, and Elie
Wiesel "A Prayer for the Days of Awe" [Readings |
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VIDEO: Alain Resnais, Night and Fog (1955), 30 minutes. Shown both days at 4 and 7 in Korb Classroom |
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Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, Chapters 1-3, and Night and Fog (discussion) |
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Levi, Chapters 4-5 |
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United Nations "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" [Readings Book N] |
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LECTURE: Discovery, Innovation, and Risk (Scott Feller) |
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Edward O. Wilson, Consilience (selections) [Readings Book O] |
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Peter B. Medawar, The Limits of Science (selections) [Readings Book P] |
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Discussion: Thinking about the Enlightenment |
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LECTURE: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Dream Deferred (Peter Frederick) |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
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Booker T. Washington, "Atlanta Exposition Address" [Readings Book Q] and W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 3 |
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W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapters 1, 11, 13 |
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LECTURE: Music and Art from the Harlem Renaissance (Joy Castro and Trevor Weston) |
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Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (selections), and selected poems by Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes [Readings Book R] |
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LECTURE: Malcolm, Martin, and the Black Religious Experience (Michael Brown) |
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VIDEO: Eyes on the Prize (1986), 1 hour and 30 minutes. Shown both days at 4:00 and 7:00 P.M. in Korb |
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Eyes on the Prize (discussion) |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Chapters 1-3, 7, 9-11 |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Chapters 13-14, 17, 19, pp. 419-39 of Epilogue |
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Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail" [Readings Book S] |
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VIDEO: George T. Nierenberg, Say Amen, Somebody (1983), Shown both days at 4:00 and 7:00 P.M. in Korb classroom |
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Alice Walker, "The Welcome Table," James Cone, God of the Oppressed (selections) [Readings Book T], and Say Amen, Somebody (discussion) |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Colored People (selections) [Readings Book U] |
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Lecture: What is Culture? (William Placher and Raymond Williams) |
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E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Magic, Witchcraft, and Oracles among the Azande (selections) [Readings Book V] |
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Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa (selections) [Readings Book W] |
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Clifford Geertz: "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" [Readings Book X] |
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VIDEO: "Deep Play" at Wabash (1998), 60 minutes. Shown both days at 4:00 and 7:00 P.M. in Korb |
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Elihu Baldwin, "Inaugural Address" [Readings Book Y]; "Deep Play" at Wabash (discussion) |
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Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (selections) [Readings Book Z] |
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Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity (selections) [Readings Book AA] |
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Discussion & Recapitulation |