Graduate Institute in Liberal Arts

Santa Fe
History Tutorial and Seminar Reading List - Summer

SUMMER HISTORY TUTORIAL READING LIST
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10:30 am to 12 noon.

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

Week One

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
3. Vico, New Science, paragraphs 119-247
4. New Science, paragraphs 283-315, 326-373

Week Two

1. New Science, paragraphs 374-455
2. New Science, paragraphs 502-569
3. New Science, paragraphs 582-598, 629-661
4. New Science, paragraphs 1046-1112

Week Three

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

Week Four

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)
3. Hegel, Philosophy of History, pages 198-222   (Prometheus paperback edition)
4. Philosophy of History, pages 222-240

Week Five

1. Philosophy of History, pages 241-256
2. Philosophy of History, pages 256-277
3. Philosophy of History, pages 1-25
4. Philosophy of History, pages 25-54

Week Six

1. Philosophy of History, pages 54-79
2. Tolstoy, War and Peace, Second Epilogue        
3. Marx, The German Ideology, Preface, A, B
4. Marx, The German Ideology, C, D

Week Seven

1. Nietzsche, Uses and Abuses of History for Life, Preface, sections 1-5
2. Uses and Abuses of History for Life, sections 6-10
3. Collingwood, Autobiography, chapters 1-8
4. Autobiography, chapters 9-12

Week Eight

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

SUMMER 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

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