The required weekly readings will be listed next to the day on which they will be discussed in class. Since discussion of the assigned readings contributes to your class participation grade, you are strongly encouraged to complete the assignments in advance of the deadline. You are further encouraged to complete the readings earlier since this will allow you to start effecting the syntheses necessary to do well on exams and essays and to ask informed questions during the lectures.

Anything listed as (PCOPY) will be distributed as a photocopy in class. All other readings are drawn from the required readings available for purchase in the bookstore.

Part I: What is Enlightenment?

Week 1: (January 15 - 19): Foundations of Enlightenment

T: Language Communities and the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

Required Reading: Course Syllabus

Th: What is Enlightenment Philosophy?

Required Reading: Article “Philosopher” and “Encyclopedia,” from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia (1751); Voltaire, article “Philosopher” and “Philosophy” from Philosophical Dictionary; Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” (PCOPY)

Recommended: Look at the "Tree of Knowledge" used in the Encyclopédie and explore the linking system of the text. Also, browse the table of contents and articles which interest you in Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary.

Week 2: (January 22 - 26): Hume’s Skeptical Empiricist Challenge

T: Hume’s Skeptical Challenge to Rationalist Philosophy

Required Reading: Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, pp. 1-90 (Sections VIII-X)

Th: Hume’s Empirical Enlightenment

Required Reading: Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, pp. 90-114 (Sections XI-XII).

Week 3: (January 29 – February 2): Science, Enlightenment, Progress

T: Enlightenment Progress and Rousseau’s Heresy

Required Reading: John Locke, from Second Treatise on Civil Government (PCOPY; consult the entire text here); Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, pp. 10-44 (“Preface,” Part I). Be sure to read Rousseau’s notes since they add important content to the discussion.

Th: Rousseau: Prophet of Revolution?

Required Reading: Marquis de Condorcet, from A Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (PCOPY); Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, pp. 44-71 (Part II). Be sure to read Rousseau’s notes since they add important content to the discussion.:

Week 4: (February 5 - 9): From Enlightenment to Revolution

T: Shots Heard ‘Round the World: 1776 and 1789

Required Reading: U.S. Declaration of Independence (PCOPY); Sièyes, What is the Third Estate? (PCOPY); Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, (PCOPY; also in Paine, Rights of Man, pp. 65-7); Thomas Paine, “Observations on the Declaration of Rights,” in Paine, The Rights of Man, pp. 68-9. Olympe de Gouges, "Declaration of the Rights of Women" (PCOPY); Ho Chi Minh, "Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam" (PCOPY).

Th: Debating Revolution: The Birth of Right and Left in Modern Politics

Required Reading: Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, pp. 33 (“You will observe…) -99 (“It is on some …), 246 (“The effects …)- 250; Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, pp. 1-34 (“From these preliminaries …”), 42 (“Hitherto we have…)-47( “I will here cease…), 89-94 (Part I, “Conclusion”), 99-144 (Part II, “Preface,” “Introduction,” Chapters 1-4).

Week 5: (February 12 - 16): Enlightenment and the Revolutionary Project of Modernity

T: Industrialization, Liberty, and Laissez-Faire: Modern Liberalism

Required Reading: Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations; John Stuart Mill, from “On Liberty;” Alexis de Tocqueville, “Author's Preface,” Democracy in America; Wordsworth, “Preface,” Lyrical Ballads (PCOPY).

Th: Enlightenment, Revolution, Modernity: What Legacies?

Required Reading: *** FIRST IN-CLASS QUIZ ***

Part II: Ideologies of Modernity

Week 6: (February 19 - 22):Re-Grounding Philosophical Reason

T: Hume, Kant, and the “Awakening from Dogmatic Slumbers”

Required Reading: Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, pp. 1-34 (“Preface,” “Preamble,” Part I), 35-42 (Part II, sections 14-20).

Th: Kant’s Categories and the Enlightenment Division of Knowledge

Required Reading: Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, pp. 44-56 (Part II, sections 22-35), 64-73 (Part II, sections 40-49), and 85-98 (“Conclusion”).

Week 7: (Febraury 26 - March 2):Enlightenment as the Historical Development of Geist

T: Hegel’s Geist

Required Reading: Hegel, Philosophy of History, pp. 1-63 (“Introduction,” through “After these remarks…”)

Suggested: Explore the "Hegel's System in Hypertext" site to learn more about how the parts of Hegel's philosophy work together.

Th: Enlightenment and the End of History

Required Reading: Hegel, Philosophy of History, pp. 412-457 (“The Modern Time”). Francis Fukyama, "Introduction," The End of History and the Last Man.

Week 8: (March 5 – 9): Socialism and Marxism

T: Karl Marx, Young Hegelian

Required Reading: Karl Marx, “Marx on the History of His Opinions,” “To Make the World Philosophical,” “Theses on Fuerbach,” and The German Ideology, Part I, in The Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 3-6, 9-11, 144-5, 148-175.

Th: Karl Marx, Political Economist and Revolutionary

Required Reading: Karl Marx, from The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, “Wage, Labor, and Capital” (Parts I-IV), and Capital, Part I, Chapter 1 “Commodities,” and Manifesto of the Communist Party in The Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 70-93, 203-211, 302-329, 473-500

Week 9: (March 12 - 16): SPRING BREAK

Week 10: (March 19 - 23):. The Challenge of Darwinian Science

T: Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection and Evolution

Required Reading: Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species, in Darwin, pp. 95-174; Andrew Carneige, “The Gospel of Wealth,” in Darwin, pp. 396-398

Th: The Ideologies of Modernity

Required Reading: *** SECOND IN-CLASS QUIZ ***

Part III: Toward Modernism and Postmodernism

Week 11: (March 26 - 30): Foundations of Modernism

T: Urbanism, Realism, Modernism and the Alienated Modernist Self

Required Reading: Charles Baudelaire, from “The Painter of Modern Life” (PCOPY); Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (PCOPY; Read Part I ONLY)

Th: Nietzsche’s Modernist Philosophy

Required Reading: Friedrich Nietzsche, “Why I am a Destiny,” from Ecce Homo (you can browse through the entire text here) (PCOPY); "The Madman," from The Gay Science (PCOPY); On the Geneaology of Morals (“Preface,” “First Essay,” “Second Essay”); Aphorisms 92 and 96 from Human, All Too Human (PCOPY); and Aphorism 18 from The Dawn (PCOPY).

Recommended: The Nietzsche Channel has many of the Walter Kaufmann translations of Nietzsche's works available online, along with other resources. I recommend browsing through the site if you want to read more and learn more about Nietzsche.

Week 12: (April 2 - 6): ** NO CLASS – Paper Preparation **

F: *** CRITICAL ESSAY DUE ***

Papers should be delivered before 5 PM on April 6 to my mailbox in 614 Social Sciences

Week 13: (April 9 - 13): The Discovery of the Unconscious

T:Freud, the Unconscious, and Psychoanalysis

Required Reading: Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Th: The Modern Pathologies of Self and Society

Required Reading: Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents

Week 14: (April 16 - 20): The New Sciences of the 20^th-Century

T: The New Physics and the “Crisis of the European Sciences”

Required Reading: Max Weber, “Science as Vocation” (PCOPY); Werner Heisenberg, from Physics and Philosophy (PCOPY).

Recommended: Browse through Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosopicus (1922) using this hyper-text version of the English translation. In particular look at the Preface and the next page which opens you into the hypertext linkages of the whole text.

Th: Heidegger and the New Phenomenology

Required Reading: Martin Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism” (PCOPY)

Week 15: (April 23 - 27): Philosophy in the Time of Hitler

T: Philosophy After Auschwitz

Required Reading: Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, pp. 9-173

Th: The End of Enlightenment?

Required Reading: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, “Prefaces of 1969, 1966, 1962, 1947, and 1944” and “The Concept of Enlightenment,” and “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” from Dialectic of Enlightenment (PCOPY)

Week 16: (April 30 - May 4): The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Today

T: Postmodernism and Parisian Post-Structuralism

Required Reading: Jacques Derrida, “The Ends of Man” (1969) (PCOPY); Michel Foucault, “What is Enlightenment?”; “Panopticism,” from Discipline and Punish (1975); and “Power/Knowledge: An Interview” (1977) (PCOPY)

Th: Derrida, Habermas, and Philosophy Today

Required Reading: Philosophy in a Time of Terror, pp. ix-xiv, 1-136.

Week 17: (May 7 - 12): *** FINAL EXAMS ***

S: May 12, 9 - 10 AM: *** THIRD IN-CLASS QUIZ ***

Monday May 14, Before noon: *** FINAL PAPER DUE ***