Academic Program

Santa Fe
Supplement - Senior Seminar Assignments, 2011-12

Date

Supplemental Reading

Thursday
Sep. 1

Faust, Part One: through the second "Study" scene

Monday
Sep. 5

Faustfrom the conclusion of the second "Study" scene to the end of Part One

Thursday
Sep. 8

Phenomenology: (Miller translation, Oxford Univ Press): Introduction, paragraphs 73-89 (pp. 46-57)

Monday
Sep. 12

Phenomenology: Sense Certainty, 90-110 (pp. 58-66)

Thursday
Sep. 15

Phenomenology: Lordship and Bondage, Stoicism; paragraphs 178-201 (pp. 111-122)

Monday
Sep. 19

Phenomenology: Skepticism, Unhappy Consciousness, Reason (Intro), paragraphs 202-239, (pp.123-145)

Thursday
Sep. 22

Phenomenology: Spirit – The Ethical Order – Guilt & Destiny, pp. 263-289 ; paragraphs 438-476

Monday
Sep. 26

Phenomenology: Preface, paragraphs 1-37 (pp.1-22)

Thursday
Sep. 29

Phenomenology: Preface, paragraphs 38-72 (pp.22-45)

Monday
Oct. 3

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. 6

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. 10

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. 13

Fear and Trembling, through the "First Problem'; Epilogue

Monday
Oct. 17

Philosophical Fragments: Preface. I-III, Appendix (The Paradox and the Offended Consciousness).

Thursday
Oct. 20

Philosophical Fragments: IV, Interlude, V, Moral.

Monday
Feb. 13

(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. 16

(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. 13

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Part I; Part II, Sections 8-9, pp. 3-59.

Monday
Apr. 17

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Part II, Sections 10-27, pp. 60-100.

Monday
Apr. 24

The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays: pp. 53-112.

Monday
May 1

Dred Scott Decision:

Thursday
May 4

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

Thursday
May 11

Supreme Court Decisions (photocopy): 

 

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