Graduate Institute in Liberal Arts

Santa Fe
History Tutorial and Seminar Reading Lists - Summer

 

 

HISTORY TUTORIAL READING LIST

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Friday 10:30 a.m. to Noon

The reading assignment for the first tutorial should be completed before the first class meeting.

Week One

1. Augustine: City of God, Preface; Book I Ch. 1‑7; III: 2-7; XI: 1‑9, 18-21, 33-34
2. City of God, XII: 1, 10-22, 27; XIII: 1-3; XIV: 1, 27-28
3. City of God, XV: 1-8; XVI: 1-2, 4-5, 16-18, 43; XVII: 1-3
4. City of God, XVIII: 1-2, 19-22, 46-53; XIX: 14-15; XII: 1, 6-7, 30

Week Two

5.  Vico: New Science, paragraphs 119-247
6.  New Science, para. 283-315, 326-373
7.  New Science, para. 374-455
8.  New Science, para. 502-569

Week Three

9. New Science, para. 582-598, 629-661 New Science, para. 1046-1112 Kant: “Idea of a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View” from Kant’s Political Writings (Reiss Ed.), pp.41-53
10. “The Contest of Faculties” (Reiss Ed.), pp.177-190

Week Four

11. Hegel: Philosophy of History, (Prometheus Paperback Ed.) Introduction: pp.1-27
12. Introduction: pp.27-53
13. Introduction: pp. 53-79
14. Introduction: pp. 79-102 & Oriental World: pp.111-115

Week Five

15. Greek World: pp. 223-249
16. Greek World: pp. 250-277
17. Roman World: 278-305
18. Roman World: pp.306-340

Week Six

19. German World: pp. 341-377
20. German World: pp. 377-411
21. Modern World: pp. 412-438
22. Modern World: pp. 438-457

Week Seven

23. Marx: “Theses on Feuerbach” from German Ideology, I.A “Idealism…”
24. I.B “Illusion of the Epoch”
25. I.C “The Real Basis of Ideology”
26. I.D “Proletarians and Communism”

Week Eight

27. Nietzsche: Use and Abuse of History, Preface, Sect. 1-5
28. Use and Abuse of History, Sect. 6-10
29. To be announced
30. To be announced

HISTORY SEMINAR READING LIST

Monday and Thursday 7:00 – 9:00 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, 99‑end (94 pp)

Week Two

3. Histories, Books VIII‑IX (100 pp)
4. Thucydides:  Peloponnesian War, Book I; Book II, 1‑46 (106 pp)

Week Three

5. Peloponnesian War, II 47‑65; III 1‑87; IV 1‑74 (100 pp)
6. Peloponnesian War, Book IV 75‑end; V 1‑24, 86‑116; VI 1‑32 (74 pp)

Week Four

7. Peloponnesian War, VI 32‑105; VII all; VIII 1‑18 (107 pp)
8. Livy:  Early History of Rome, pages 29-147 of 2002 Penguin edition

Week Five

9. Polybius, Histories (The Rise of the Roman Empire), Book I 1‑4; III 1‑35, 39‑75; VI 2‑18, 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

13. 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.