Academic Program

Santa Fe Supplemental Readings - Senior

Date Supplemental Reading
Thursday
Sep. 4
Faust, Part One: through the second "Study" scene
Monday
Sep. 8
Faust: from the conclusion of the second "Study" scene to the end of Part One
Thursday
Sep. 11
Phenomenology: (Miller translation, Oxford Univ Press): Introduction, paragraphs 73-89 (pp. 46-57)
Monday
Sep. 15
Phenomenology: Sense Certainty, 90-110 (pp. 58-66)
Thursday
Sep. 18
Phenomenology: Lordship and Bondage, Stoicism; paragraphs 178-201 (pp. 111-122)
Monday
Sep. 22
Phenomenology: Skepticism, Unhappy Consciousness, Reason (Intro), paragraphs 202-239, (pp.123-145)
Thursday
Sep. 25
Phenomenology: Spirit - The Ethical Order - Guilt & Destiny, pp. 263-289 ; paragraphs 438-476
Monday
Sep. 29
Phenomenology: Preface, paragraphs 1-37 (pp.1-22)
Thursday
Oct. 2
Phenomenology: Preface, paragraphs 38-72 (pp.22-45)
Monday
Oct. 6
Democracy in America(Vintage edition)Author's Introduction,Vol 1, pp 2-16; Ch I-IV, pp 17-58; Ch IX-XII, pp 173-198. (Mansfield edition) Author’s Introduction, Vol 1, Part 1 pp 3-19; Ch I-IV, pp 19-56; Vol 1, Part 2, Ch I-IV, pp 165-186
Thursday
Oct. 9
Democracy in America (Vintage edition) Vol 1, Ch XIII-XVI, pp 198-287. (Mansfield edition) Vol 1, Part 2, Ch V-VIII pp 187-264
Monday
Oct. 13
Democracy in America (Vintage edition)Vol 2, Bk 1, Ch I-II, pp 3-12, Bk 1, Ch V-VIII, pp 20-34; Bk 2, Ch I-IV, pp 94-105; Bk 2, Ch VIII-IX, pp 121-127, Bk 4, Ch I-VIII, pp 287-334. (Mansfield edition) Vol 2, Part 1, Ch I-II, pp 401-411; Ch V-VIII, pp 417-428; Part 2, Ch I-IV pp 479-489; Ch VIII-IX pp 500-506; Part 4, Ch I-VIII, pp 639-677
Thursday
Oct. 16
Fear and Trembling, through the "First Problem', Epilogue
Monday
Oct. 20
Philosophical Fragments: Preface. I-III, Appendix (The Paradox and the Offended Consciousness).
Thursday
Oct. 23
Philosophical Fragments: IV, Interlude, V, Moral.
Monday
Feb. 16
(All Marx readings from The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker) On the Jewish Question, pp. 26-52; Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts: Estranged Labor, Private Property and Communism, The Meaning of Human Requirements, The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society, pp. 70-105.
Thursday
Feb. 19
(The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker) Capital, Volume One, Excerpts, Chapter 1 (Commodities) through Chapter VII (The Labour Process and the Production of Surplus Value), pp. 302-361. Chapter V (omitted in the Marx-Engels Reader) is also assigned and available as a photocopy in the bookstore.
Thursday
Apr. 16
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Part I; Part II, Sections 8-9, pp. 3-59.
Monday
Apr. 20
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Part II, Sections 10-27, pp. 60-100.
Monday
Apr. 27
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays: pp. 53-112.
Monday
May 4
Abraham Lincoln Great Speeches(Dover Thrift Edition) plus Xerox supplements: Dred Scott Decision; Constitution and the Union (photocopy); “The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions”: Address Before Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum, 1838; Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (photocopy); “A House Divided”: Speech Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, 1858; Lincoln-Douglas Debates: “Difference Between the White and Black Races”: (photocopy), Lincoln’s Reply at Alton (photocopy); Address at the Cooper Union, 1860; Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois.
Frederick Douglass, “The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?” (Photocopy).
Monday
May 11
Supreme Court Decisions: Marbury v. Madison, Plessy v. Ferguson; Brown v. Board of Education (photocopy)
Thursday
May 14
Supreme Court Decisions: Roe v. Wade; Lawrence et. al. v. Texas

 

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