Required Texts 

The following texts are required and are available for purchase at the University Bookstore:

Giovanna Borradori, Philosophy in a Time of Terror (University of Chicago)

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford)

Darwin (W.W. Norton)

Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis and Civilization and its Discontents (W.W. Norton)

Georg W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History (Prometheus)

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hackett)

Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics (Hackett)

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (Simon & Schuster)

The Marx-Engels Reader (W.W. Norton)

Friedrich Nietzsche, On The Genealogy of Morals (Vintage)

Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (Dover)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Hackett)

Other readings (labeled PCOPY on the syllabus) will be distributed as photocopies in class.