Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction. Machiavelli, excerpt from The Prince
2	More: excerpt from Utopia Montaigne: Of Cannibals
3	Montaigne: Of Repentance, Of Diversion, Of Conserving the Will
4	Montaigne: excerpt from Of Experience Shakespeare, King Lear
5	Shakespeare: King Lear
6	Shakespeare: King Lear
7	Excerpts from Hobbes: Leviathan
8	Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels, IV
9	Jonathan Swift: (concluded)	First Paper Due (Six Pages)
10	Rousseau: On the Origins of Inequality
11	Rousseau: (concluded)
12	Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey; excerpts from The Prelude
13	Wordsworth: (concluded)
14	Wordsworth: (concluded)
15	Immanuel Kant: excerpt from The Metaphysical Foundation of Morals
16	Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice	Second Paper Due (Six Pages)
17	Jane Austen (continued)
18	Jane Austen (continued)
19	Balzac: Père Goriot
20	Balzac (continued)
21	Balzac (continued)
22	Friedrich Nietzsche, excerpts from The Geneology of Morals
23	Nietzsche, (concluded)
24	George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
25	George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
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