Graduate Institute in Liberal Arts
Santa Fe
History Seminar and Tutorial Reading Lists - Fall and Spring
FALL HISTORY TUTORIAL READING LIST
Monday and Thursday 5:00‑6:15 p.m.
The reading assignment for the first tutorial should be completed before the first class meeting.
Week One – 2 meetings
Augustine, City of God: Preface, Book XI 1‑8, XII 10‑15, XV 1‑8,26,27; XVI 4,5,11,12,16‑18,43, XVII 1‑3, XVIII 1,2,22,37‑46, XIX 24‑26.
Weeks Two through Four – 6 meetings
Vico, New Science: paragraphs 119‑247; paragraphs 283-315, 326-373; paragraphs 374- 455; paragraphs 502-569; paragraphs 582-598, 629-661; paragraphs 1046-1112.
Week Five – 2 meetings
Herodotus, Histories: Book II, paragraph 2, Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Languages: Chapters 1-11, 20; Kant, Idea of an Universal History.
Week Six – 2 meetings
Herder, Ideas Toward the Philosophy of the History of Mankind: Book VII 1-2, VIII 1-2, 5; Book XV.
Week Seven through Ten – 8 meetings
Hegel, Philosophy of History: pages 198-222;pages 222-240; pages 241-256; pages 256-277; pages 438-457; pages 1-25; pages 25-54; pages 54-79. (Prometheus paperback ed.)
Week Eleven – 2 meetings
Marx, The German Ideology: Preface, A, B; C,D.
Weeks Twelve through Thirteen – 3 meetings (Thanksgiving – no class)
Tolstoy, War and Peace: Second Epilogue; Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life: Preface, Sections 1-5; 6-10.
Week Fourteen – 2 meetings
Dilthey, Introduction to the Human Sciences: Book I, Chapters 1-3, 5-6, 8-9; Book I, Chapter 11, Chapter 13 to page 120, Chapters 15 and 19.
Week Fifteen – 2 meetings
Collingwood, Human Nature and Human History (in The Idea of History); Heidegger, “The Age of the World Picture” (including appendices) in Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, Harper & Row.
Week Sixteen – 2 meetings
Borges, The Garden of the Forking Path; Leo Strauss, “Political Philosophy and History” in What is Political Philosophy?.
FALL HISTORY SEMINAR READING LIST
Monday and Thursday 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
The reading assignment for the first seminar should be completed before the first class meeting.
Week One
l. Herodotus: Histories, Books I, III 37‑8, V 62‑78 (94 pp)
2. Histories, Books VI 94‑140; VII 1‑60 and 99‑end (94 pp)
Week Two
3. Histories, Books VIII‑IX (100 pp)
4. Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, Books I, II 1‑46 (106 pp)
Week Three
5. Peloponnesian War, Books II 47‑65, III 1‑87, IV 1‑74 (100 pp)
6. Peloponnesian War, Books IV 75‑end, V 1‑24 and 86‑116, VI 1‑32 (74 pp)
Week Four
7. Peloponnesian War, Books VI 32‑105, VII (all), VIII 1‑18 (107 pp)
8. Livy: Early History of Rome, pages 29-147 of Penguin edition
Week Five
9. Polybius: Histories (The Rise of the Roman Empire), Books I 1‑4, III 1‑35, 39‑75, VI 2‑18 and 43‑58 (70 pp)
10. Plutarch: Caesar
Week Six
11. Plutarch: Cato the Younger
12. Tacitus: Annals, Books I‑III (Chapters 1 – 6)
Week Seven
l3. Annals, Books IV‑VI (Chapters 7 – 8)
14. Montesquieu: Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (translated by David Lowenthal), Chapters 1-8, pp 23-89.
Week Eight
15. Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline, Chapters 9-16, pp 89-156.
16. Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline, Chapters 17-23, pp 157-220.