Humanities 2A Reading List and Semester Plan: Fall 20161
Cooper, Lindahl, Peter, Scaff
Locations for Lecture and Seminars:
Lectures are in Washington Square Hall 109 Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1030.
Seminars immediately follow are in the following rooms at 1200:
Cooper Seminar (section 11): Sweeny Hall 240
Scaff Seminar (section 21): Engineering Building 232
Peter Seminar (section 31): Clark Hall 225
Lindahl Seminar (section 41): Sweeny Hall 241
Daily Reading List:
1. Thursday August 25. Italian and Spanish Baroque Art
Read: Stokstad, Art History, Volume 4, pages 713-736.
2. Tuesday August 30. Society & Culture in Early Modern Europe The Novel
(SS1)
Read: Cervantes’ Don Quixote in Norton volume C: pages 384-411.
3. Thursday September 1. Scientific Revolution: Bacon and Newton
Read: Enlightenment Reader: Francis Bacon, “The New Science,” pp. 39-42; Isaac
Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” pp.43-47; Isaac Newton,
“Argument for a Deity,” pages 96-100.
Web: Galileo Galilei, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina;” Copernicus, “On
the Movement of the Earth.”
Continue Cervantes, Norton C, pages 411-422, 505-15.
4. Tuesday September 6. Rationalism: Descartes and Pascal
Read: Philosophic Classics: Rene Descartes, Meditations 1-3, pages 373-376, 384-399;
Blaise Pascal, Pensées, pages 461-467.
5. Thursday September 8. Late Baroque and Rococo Art
Read: Stokstad, Art History, Volume 4, Pages 737-765.
6. Tuesday September 13. Sor Juana
Read: Norton, Volume D; From the letter, "The Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sor
Filotea de la Cruz" pages 248-262; “Philosophical Satire” (Poem 92), pages 263264.
7. Thursday September 15. Milton in Literary and Historical Perspective
Read: Milton’s Paradise Lost in Norton volume C, pages 770-780, 792-795.
8. Tuesday September 20. Baroque Music
Read: Continue Milton’s Paradise Lost in Norton volume C: pages 814-842.
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9. Thursday September 22. American Founding
Read: Web: John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity.”
http://winthropsociety.com/doc_charity.php
10. Tuesday September 27. Locke and Hobbes: Variations on the Social
Contract
Read: Philosophic Classics: Hobbes, pages 439-462.
Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader , Locke, pages 395-404.
11. Thursday September 29. Empiricism in Philosophy: Locke
Read: Philosophic Classics: Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,”
pages 523-531, 558-564. Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding,” pages 681-683, 694-703.
12. Tuesday October 4. The Enlightenment as Intellectual and Social
movements
Read: Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader, Kant “What is Enlightenment?” pages 1-7; Condorcet,
“The Future Progress of the Human Mind” pages 26-38; Turgot, “On Progress” pages
361 –363.
13. Thursday October 6. Rousseau: Discourse on Origins of Inequality
Read: Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, pages 1-49.
14. Tuesday October 11. America: The Revolution
Read: Heffner, Documentary History of the United States, Chapter One “Declaration of
Independence” pages 3-15;
Enlightenment Reader; Paine, pages 442-448.
Continue Rousseau: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, pages 50-71
15. Thursday October 13. America: The Constitution
Read: Heffner, Documentary History of the United States, Chapter Two “The Law of the Land”
including the United States Constitution and James Madison’s Federalist Number Ten,
pages 15-52.
16. Tuesday October 18. Classical Music
***Midterm at 12:00 in Seminar rooms***
17. Thursday October 20. The French Revolution
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The Abbe Sieyes, “What is the Third Estate?”:
http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/sieyes.asp”
Petition of the Women of the Third Estate to the King”:
https://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/472/
The Tennis Court Oath: http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/tennis-court-oath/
“Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen” in Kramnick, Enlightenment
Reader, pages 466-468.
Olympe de Gouges “The Rights of Woman” in Kramnick, Enlightenment
Reader, pages 609-618.
Robespierre, “The Political Philosophy of Terror”:
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Communism/ROBESPIERRE'S%20SPEECH.htm
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18. Tuesday October 25. Jeffersonian Republicanism
Read: Heffner, Documentary History of the United States, Chapter Five “The
Jeffersonian Revolution,” pages 77-93.
Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader, Jefferson “Religion….my views of it…” pages
160-166.
Web: Jefferson, “The Virginia Act for Religious Freedom.”
19. Thursday October 27. Gender, Race, and the Other in the Enlightenment
Read: Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader: Review De Gouges, pages 609-617;
Wollstonecraft, pages 618-628; Kant, pages 637-639; Diderot, pages 640-643;
Long, page 644 ; Paine, pages 645-648; Jefferson, pages 657-668; Encyclopedia
Britannica, page 669.
20. Tuesday November 1. Neoclassical Literature and Social Commentary
Read: Swift in Norton D, “A Modest Proposal,” and Gulliver’s Travels: pages 265-314.
21. Thursday November 3. Neoclassicism in Art
Read: Stokstad volume 6, pages 913-929.
Continue Swift, pages 315-320.
22. Tuesday November 8. Adam Smith: Moral Philosopher and Political
Economist
Read: Kramnick, Enlightenment Reader, Adam Smith, “The Impartial Spectator” pages
280-287; The Wealth of Nations, pages 505-515.
23. Thursday November 10. Immanuel Kant
Read: Enlightenment Reader: Kant, “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of
Morals,” pages 297-306.
Philosophic Classics: Kant, “Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics,” pages
775-777, 784-790.
24. Tuesday November 15 Goethe and Romanticism in Literature
Read: Goethe’s Faust in Norton E: pages 99-109, 124-139.
25. Thursday November 17. Romantic Art
Read: Stokstad: volume 6, pages 929-932, 940-943, 946-959;
Continue Goethe’s Faust in Norton E: pages 158-176, 203-208
26. Tuesday November 22. British Romantic Poetry
Read: Norton, Volume E: William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” (Songs of Innocence),
page 337, “The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Experience), pages 340-341;
William Wordsworth, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality,” pages 354-359; Percy
Bysshe Shelley, “Stanzas Written in Dejection—December 1818, near Naples,”
page 398; “Ode to the West Wind,” pages 399-401; from “A Defense of Poetry,”
pages 401-403.
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27. Tuesday November 29. Poe and Hawthorne
Read: Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” in The Fall of the House of Usher and other
Tales, pages. 117-137; Hawthorne “Ethan Brand,” in Ethan Brand, pages 5-end.
28. Thursday December December 1. Melville
Read: Norton, Volume E: Melville “Bartleby the Scrivener,” pages 293-321.
29. Tuesday December 6. Romantic Music
Read: Continue discussion of Melville.
30. Thursday December 8. Manifest Destiny and the Movement West
Read: John L. O’Sullivan, “The Great Nation of Futurity” (1839)
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/osulliva.htm
Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
(1851) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/OREGON/otrail14.html
Two Accounts of the Trail of Tears: Wahnenauhi and Private John G. Burnett
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1147
Bret Harte, “Plain Language from Truthful James”
http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/roughingit/map/chiharte.html
FINAL EXAMINATIONS:
Thursday, December 15, 9:45 – 12:00. Short Answer Final in LECTURE hall.
Monday December 19, 9:45 – 12:00. Long Answer Final in SEMINAR rooms.
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Book List for Humanities 2A
Stokstad and Cothren. Art History, Portable edition vols.1-6, 5th edition.
(Pearson), ISBN 978-0205969876.
Baird, Forrest, ed. Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida, 6th edition.
(Pearson / Prentice Hall), ISBN: 978-0205783861.
Mack, M. et. Al. eds. Norton Anthology of World Literature, vols, C, D, E, F 3rd edition.
(Norton), ISBN 978-0393933666.
McInerny, D.Q. Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking.
(Random House Trade Paperbacks), ISBN 978-0812971156.
Lunsford, Andrea. The Everyday Writer, 5th ed. (Bedford/St.
Martin’s), 2013. (Available free to SJSU students through Canvas link)
Kramnick, ed. Enlightenment Reader, Viking Portable Library., ISBN 978-0140245660.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Ethan Brand. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
(December 10, 2012), ISBN 978-1481192613.
Heffner, A Documentary History of the United States, Expanded and Updated Edition. (Signet,)
ISBN 978-0451466471.
Poe, Edgar Allen. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales. (Signet Classics,) ISBN
978-0451530318.
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality. (Hackett,) ISBN 978-0872201507.
Sprague, J., Stuart, D., and Bodary, D., The Speaker’s Compact Handbook, 5th edition.
(Wadsworth Cengage), ISBN 978-1305280281.
Note on expense, usage, and purchase of books:
You should already own many of the texts listed in the booklist above since these were used in Hum 1B.
You will need the Norton anthology volume C from past semesters and we will add volumes D,E, F which
will be used in both 2A and 2B. The Rousseau, Heffner, Poe, Hawthorne and Kramnick texts are new to
the booklist. The other books you were required to purchase last semester. Again, do not sell the main
texts at the end of the semester as we will continue to use most of them in the future.
On any given day you will need to have a physical copy of the book that is assigned and you will need to
bring it with you to class. Lectures and seminars often make reference to specific quotations on specific
pages and you will need to open your book during class to be able to follow and take notes. Different
editions of books or e-books usually do not have the same page numbers and will leave you lost in class.
It is also productive to shop around. The Spartan bookstore, of course, has all of the required books but
tends not to be very competitive in pricing. You can save a substantial amount of money ordering the
books from retailers like Amazon. But, be careful! Many of the books have different versions and different
editions—particularly if purchased used. The isbns are listed above to assist you in making sure you have
the right book if you get it from another source. If the isbn is right, the book is right.
Online Readings [Website]:
Online readings will be found on Professor Lindahl’s website here:
www.sjsu.edu/people/james.lindahl/
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