Graduate Institute in Liberal Arts

Santa Fe
History Seminar and Tutorial Reading Lists - Fall

FALL HISTORY TUTORIAL READING LIST
Mondays, Thursdays 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.

Week One – 2 meetings

1.Augustine, City of God, Preface; XI 1-8; XII 10-15; XV 1-8, 26, 27
2.City of God, 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

1. Vico, New Science, paragraphs 119-247
2. New Science, paragraphs 283-315, 326-373
3. New Science, paragraphs 374-455
4. New Science, paragraphs 502-569
5. New Science, paragraphs 582-598, 629-661
6. New Science, paragraphs 1046-1112

Week Five  -- 2 meetings

1. Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One (including Rousseau’s footnotes)
2. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two (including Rousseau’s footnotes)

Week Six – 2 meetings

1. Kant, “Idea of a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent” (in Political Writings, Cambridge)
2. Kant, “Perpetual Peace” (in Political Writings, Cambridge)

Week Seven – 2 meetings

1. Herder, Ideas Toward the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, Book VII, 1-2, VIII 1-2,5 (photocopy)
2. Ideas Toward the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, Book XV (photocopy)

Weeks Eight through Eleven – 8 meetings

1. Hegel, Philosophy of History, pages 198-222   (Prometheus paperback edition)
2. Philosophy of History, pages 222-240
3. Philosophy of History, pages 241-256
4. Philosophy of History, pages 256-277
5. Philosophy of History, pages 1-25
6. Philosophy of History, pages 25-54
7. Philosophy of History, pages 54-79
8. Tolstoy, War and Peace, Second Epilogue

Week Twelve – 2 meetings

1. Marx, The German Ideology, Preface, A, B
2. Marx, The German Ideology, C, D

Week Thirteen – 2 meetings

1. Nietzsche, Uses and Abuses of History for Life, Preface, sections 1-5
2. Uses and Abuses of History for Life, sections 6-10

Week Fourteen – 2 meetings

1. Collingwood, Autobiography, chapters 1-8
2. Autobiography, chapters 9-12

Week Fifteen – 2 meetings

1. Weber, “Science as a Vocation” (in The Vocation Lectures, Hackett edition)
2. Husserl, “The Vienna Lecture” (in The Crisis of the European Sciences, Northwestern U. Press)

Week Sixteen – 2 meetings

1. Heidegger, “Address: The Principle of Reason” (in The Principle of Reason, Indiana U. Press)
2. Strauss, “Political Philosophy and History” (in What is Political Philosophy?, U. of Chicago Press)

 

 

 

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.