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History Tutorial Reading List
Revised 1/31/11

NOTES:
Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.

You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. Augustine, City of God (Penguin Ed.) Preface; I, 1-7; III, 2-7; XI, 1-9, 18-21, 33-34
2. Augustine, City of God, Penguin Ed.: XII, 1, 10-22, 28 or Modern Library Ed.: XII, 1, 10-21, 27
3. Augustine, City of God, XIII, 1-3; XIV, 1, 27-28; XV, 1-8; XVI, 1-2, 4- 5, 16-18, 43
4. Augustine, City of God, XVII, 1-3; XVIII, 1-2, 19-22, 46-53; XIX, 14- 15; XXII, 1, 6-7, 30
5. Vico, The New Science,* pp. 60-79 (para. 119-247) "Elements"
6. Vico, The New Science, pp. 79-99 (para. 248-337) "Elements" and "Principles"
7. Vico, The New Science, pp. 100-115 (para. 338-373) "Method" and "Prolegomena"
8. Vico, The New Science, pp. 116-153 (para. 374-455) "Poetic Metaphysics" and "Poetic Logic"
9. Vico, The New Science, pp. 170-205 (para. 502-569) "Poetic Morals" and "Poetic Economy"
10. Vico, The New Science, (para. 582-618; 624-33; 670-8) "Poetic Politics"
11. Vico, The New Science, pp. 397-426 (para. 1046-1112) "The Recourse of Human Institutions and the Conclusion of the Work."
12. Vico, The New Science, pp. 2-26 (para. 1-42) Frontispiece and "Idea of Work"
13. Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View in Kant's Political Writings (Reiss Ed.) pp. 41-53
14. Kant, The Contest of Faculties in Kant's Political Writings (Reiss Ed.) pp.177-190
15. Hegel, Philosophy of History, Classification of Historical Data, pp. 103-110, The Oriental World (Persia) pp. 187-191, The Oriental World (Egypt) pp. 198-219
16. Hegel, Philosophy of History, Transition and The Greek World, pp. 219-250
17. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The Greek World, pp. 250-277
18. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The Roman World, pp. 278-305
19. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The Roman World, pp. 306-340
20. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The German World pp. 341-346, The German World, pp. 412-438
21. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The German World, pp. 438-457
22. Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction, pp. 1-27
23. Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction, pp. 27-53
24. Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction, pp. 53-79
25. Marx, The German Ideology, Theses on Feuerbach, Preface, I.A
26. Marx, The German Ideology, I.B, I.C
27. Marx, The German Ideology, I.D
28. Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History,  Preface; Sections 1-5
29. Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History,  Sections 6-10
30. Husserl, The Vienna Address, Part I
31. Husserl, The Vienna Address, Parts II and III
32. Heidegger, The Age of the World Picture (omit Appendices)

*Page numbers are for the revised Bergin and Fisch translation, which is sold in the Bookstore. The page numbers in the revised edition differ slightly from those in the original edition. Paragraph numbers are identical in the original and the revised translations.

History Seminar Reading List
Revised 12/06/04

NOTES:
Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.
You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. I-II Samuel; I Kings, 1-2
2. Herodotus, Histories, I
3. Herodotus, Histories, II, 1-3, 50-53, 112-120; III, 27-38, 61-88, 150-160; IV, 1, 121- 142; V, 35-38, 49-51, 55, 91-93, 97-105; VI, 46-72, 94-120
4. Herodotus, Histories, VII, 1-60, 99-152, 172-239
5. Herodotus, Histories, VIII, 1-117; IX, 1-19, 58-122
6. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, I, 1-88, 118-125, 139-146; II, 1-24, 34-46
7. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, II, 47-78; III, 1-85; IV, 1-41
8. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, IV, 78-116; V, 1-26, 40-74, 84-116; VI, 1, 8-32
9. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, VI, 33-61, 89-105; VII
10. Plutarch, Lives, Alexander
11. Plutarch, Lives, Caesar, Cato the Younger
12. Tacitus, Annals, I-II
13. Tacitus, Annals, IV-VI
14. Tacitus, Annals, XIII-XV
15. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. I-III
16. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, XV