Academic Program

Santa Fe
Supplement - Senior Seminar Assignments, 2009-10

Date Supplemental Reading
Thursday
Sep. 3 		Faust, Part One: through the second "Study" scene
Monday
Sep. 7
Faust:  from the conclusion of the second "Study" scene to the end of Part One
Thursday
Sep. 10
 Phenomenology: (Miller translation, Oxford Univ Press): Introduction, paragraphs 73-89 (pp. 46-57)
Monday
Sep. 14		 Phenomenology: Sense Certainty, 90-110 (pp. 58-66)
Thursday
Sep. 17 		Phenomenology: Lordship and Bondage, Stoicism; paragraphs 178-201 (pp. 111-122)
Monday
Sep. 21		 Phenomenology: Skepticism, Unhappy Consciousness, Reason (Intro), paragraphs 202-239, (pp.123-145)
Thursday
Sep. 24 		Phenomenology: Spirit – The Ethical Order – Guilt & Destiny, pp. 263-289 ; paragraphs 438-476
Monday
Sep. 28		 Phenomenology: Preface, paragraphs 1-37 (pp.1-22)
Thursday
Oct. 1 		Phenomenology: Preface, paragraphs 38-72 (pp.22-45)
Monday
Oct. 5

Democracy in America
Vintage ed.: I.intro. (pp.3-16); I.1-5 to p. 68 (pp.17-68); I.9-12 (pp. 173-198).

Chicago ed.: I.i.intro. (pp. 3-15); I.i.1-5 to p. 65 (pp. 27-65); I.ii.1-4 (pp.165-186).
Thursday
Oct. 8

Democracy in America
Vintage ed.:  I.14-16 (pp. 237-287); II.i.1-2 (pp.3-12); II.i.5-8 (pp.20-34); II.i.10, 15, 17, 20 (pp.41-47, 62-63, 71-76, 85-88).

Chicago ed.: I.ii.6-8 (pp. 220-264); II.i.1-2 (pp.403-410); II.i.5-8 (pp. 417-428); II.i.10, 15, 17, 20 (pp. 433-439, 450-452, 458-463, 469-472).
Monday
Oct. 12

Democracy in America
Vintage ed.:  II.ii.1-4 (pp. 94-105); II.ii.8-9 (pp.121-127); II.ii.10-13 (pp. 128-139); II.iii.1 (pp.162-167); II.iv (pp. 287-334).

Chicago ed.:  II.ii.1-4 (pp. 479-488); II.ii.8-9 (pp. 500-506); II.ii.10-13 (pp. 506-514); II.iii.1 (pp. 535-539); II.iv (pp. 639-676).
Thursday
Oct. 15 		Fear and Trembling, through the "First Problem'; Epilogue
Monday
Oct. 19 		Philosophical Fragments: Preface. I-III, Appendix (The Paradox and the Offended Consciousness).
Thursday
Oct. 22		 Philosophical Fragments: IV, Interlude, V, Moral.
Monday
Feb. 15

(All Marx readings fromThe 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. 18

(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. 15 		The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Part I; Part II, Sections 8-9, pp. 3-59.
Monday
Apr. 19 		The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Part II, Sections 10-27, pp. 60-100.
Monday
Apr. 26 		The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays: pp. 53-112.
Monday
May 3

Dred Scott Decision:

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (photocopy)
  • Lincoln Speech on Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (photocopy)
  • Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United Staes:  Is is Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (photocopy)
  • Lincoln’s Address at Cooper’s Union, 1860 (Abraham Lincoln Great Speeches, Dover Thrift Edition)
Monday
May 10

Lincoln Speeches (all are in Abraham Lincoln Great Speeches, Dover Thrift Edition) and Constitutional Amendments:

  • “The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions.” Address Before Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum, 1838
  • “A House Divided.”  Speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois at the close of the Republican State Convention, 1858
  • First Inaugural Address, 1861
  • Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, 1863
  • Second Inaugural Address, 1865
  • 13, 14, 15 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Thursday
May 13

Supreme Court Decisions (photocopy): 

  • Marbury v. Madison
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Brown v. Board of Education

 

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