Readings

Required Reading

[E&S] = Edwards, Kathryn A., and Susie Speakman Sutch, eds. Leonarde’s Ghost: Popular Piety and the Appearance of a Spirit in 1628. Truman State University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781931112796.

[Descartes] = Descartes, René. Discourse on Method. Hackett Publishing Company, 1988. ISBN: 9780915144853. (View on: Project Gutenberg, LibriVox.)

[D&J] = Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, and Margaret C. Jacob. Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism. Humanity Books, 1994. ISBN: 9781573925457.

[Offray] = de la Mettrie Julien, Offray. Man-Machine. Hackett Publishing Company, 1994. ISBN: 9780872202641.

Optional

[HUNT] = Hunt, Lynn, et al. The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Vol. II: Since 1340. Bedford/St Martin’s, 2010. ISBN: 9780312439460.

SES # TOPICS READINGS AND RESOURCES
1 Introduction  
2 Witchcraft and Magic

Ruggiero, Guido, ed. “Witchcraft and Magic.” In A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006, pp. 475-90. ISBN: 9781405157834.

[E&S] “Leonarde’s Ghost,” pp. 1-45.

Optional

[HUNT] pp. 468-76.

Web Resources: Les Tres riches heures du Duc de Berry
Chartres-West Portal

3 Leonarde’s Ghost [E&S] pp. 46-119.
4 The Cartesian Insight [Descartes] all.
5

Cartesianism in the Seventeenth Century

Writing Workshop

Web Resources: “Rene Descartes” - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

6 English Radicalism and The Trial of Charles I, 1647-1649

Cochrane, Eric, Charles M. Gray, and Mark Kishlansky, eds. University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization Volume 6, Early Modern Europe: Crisis of Authority. Chicago, 1987, pp. 342-49. ISBN: 9780226069487

Optional

[HUNT] pp. 497-504.

[HUNT] pp. 540-7.

7 1688 in England

Pincus, Steven C. A., ed. England’s Glorious Revolution, 1688-1689: A Brief History With Documents. Bedford/St Martin’s, 2005, pp. 69-71. ISBN: 9780312167141.

8 A Visit to the MFA  
9 Newtonianism

[D&J] pp. 3-104.

Web Resources: The Newton Project

10 The First Debate  
11 State and Art in the Dutch Golden Age

Temple, Sir William. “The United Provinces: A Description and an Analysis.” The Low Countries in Early Modern Times: A Documentary History. In Herbert H. Rowen, ed. Walker & Company, 1972, pp. 213-23. ISBN: 9780802720351.

Alpers, Svetlana. “With a Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye: The Craft of Representation.” In The Art of Describing: Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art. University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 72-118. ISBN: 9780226015132.

Optional

[HUNT] pp. 504-7

12 Spinozism and the Idea of a “Radical” Enlightenment

Jonathan Israel, and Michael Silverthrone, eds. Theological-Political Treatise. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521530972.

  • Israel, Jonathan. “Introduction,” pp. viii-xxxiv
  • Spinoza, Baruch. “Preface” and “Chapter 1: On Prophecy” pp. 3-26. [Preview Hackett edition with Google Books]
13 Enlightenment France  
14 Voltaire Goes to England, and Persians Come to Paris

Voltaire. “Letters 8-11.” In Letters on England. Translated by Leonard Tancock. Penguin Classics, 1980, pp. 44-56. ISBN: 9780140443868. [See on Fordham University

Montesquieu, Charles –Louis de Secondat. “Letters 1-4, 11-14, 24-35, 147-161.” In The Persian Letters. Translated by C. J. Betts. Penguin Classics, 1973. ISBN: 9780140442816. 

Optional

[HUNT] pp. 561-80.

15 Are Men Machines? Are Machines Alive?

Riskin, Jessica.“Eighteenth-CenturyWetware.” Representations 83 (2003): 97-125. (PDF - 2.8MB)

[Offray] pp. 20-76.

16 Encyclopédie I: The Structure of Knowledge

Schwab, Richard N., and Walter E. Rex, trans. The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2009.

17 Encyclopédie II: The Place of the Mechanical Arts

Web Resources: Technology and Enlightenment: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot’s Encyclopédie

18 Jean-Jacques Rousseau vs. The French Enlightenment

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.” In The Social Contract and the Discourses. Everyman’s Library, 1993. ISBN: 9780679423027. [See on Online Library of Liberty]

———. “Excerpts.” In Jean-Jacques Rousseau, His Educational Theories Selected from Emile, Julie, and Other Writings. Edited by R. L. Archer. Barron’s Educational Series, 1964, pp. 55-75. ISBN: 9780764191558. [Preview with Google Books]

19 Second Debate  
20 French Revolution I: The Ideals of 1789 Censer, Jack R., and Lynn Hunt. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution. Penn State University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780271020884. [See on Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution.]

“Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.” (1789) [See on The Avalon Project]

“Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.” (1791) [See on City University of New York]

“The Constitution of 1791.” (1791) [See on The Online Source Book]

Web Resources: French Revolution. History Teachers.

Optional

[Hunt] pp. 581-608.

21 French Revolution II: The Lessons of 1793-1794

Censer, Jack R., and Lynn Hunt. “The Monarchy Falls.” Chapter 6 in Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution. Penn State University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780271020884.

“Documents on the Terror.” In The French Revolution: A Document Collection. Edited by Laura Mason and Tracey Rizzo. Wadsworth Publishing, 1998, pp. 225-43. ISBN: 9780669417807.

Kafker, Frank A., James M. Laux, and Darline Gay Levy, eds. “Why Terror in 1793-1794?” In The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 5th ed. Krieger, 2002, pp. 185-226. ISBN: 9781575240923.

Optional

[Hunt] pp. 608-20.

22 The Political Backlash: Conservatism

Boffa, Massimo. “Counter-Revolution.” In A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Edited by François Furet and Mona Ozouf. Harvard, 1989, pp. 640-8. ISBN: 9780674177284.

Burke, Edmund. “Reflections on the Revolution in France.” In The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 7: The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Edited by Keith Michael Baker. University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 428-45. ISBN: 9780226069500. [Preview on Google Books]

de Maistre, Joseph. “Considerations on France.” In The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 7: The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Edited by Keith Michael Baker. University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 428-45. ISBN: 9780226069500. [See on Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution]

Optional

[Hunt] pp. 621-37, and 651-59.

23 The Cultural Backlash: Romanticism

Wordsworth, William. “Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye During A Tour. July 13, 1798”.

Optional

[Hunt] pp. 659-61.

24 What is Enlightenment? (1784 & 1984)

Kant, Immanuel. “What is Enlightenment? (1784).” In The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents. Edited by Margaret C. Jacob. Bedford/St. Martins, 237, pp. 202-208. ISBN: 9780312179977.

Foucault, Michel. “What is Enlightenment? (1984)” In A Michel Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. Pantheon, 1984, pp. 32-50. ISBN: 9780394713403.

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