Foundations of World Culture II: World Literatures and Texts

Readings

LEC #	TOPICS
2	Diderot, Denis. Supplement du Voyage du Bougainville. Livres Généraux, 2010. ISBN: 9781155135021. Montesquieu. Persian Letters, Letters 25–30, 1721.
3	Kant, Immanuel. “What is Entitlement?”, 1784.
4	Xuegin, Cao. Chapters 1–7 in The Story of the Stone Vol. 1. Translated by David Hawkes. Penguin Classics, 1974. ISBN: 9780140442939.
5	Xuegin, Cao. Chapters 8–16 in The Story of the Stone Vol. 1. Translated by David Hawkes. Penguin Classics, 1974. ISBN: 9780140442939. (cont.)
6	Xuegin, Cao. Chapters 17–26 in The Story of the Stone Vol. 1. Translated by David Hawkes. Penguin Classics, 1974. ISBN: 9780140442939. (cont.)
7	Smith, Adam. Chapters I–IX and Books I–V in The Wealth of Nations. Simon & Brown, 2012. ISBN: 9781613820810. Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Chapter I in The Communist Manifesto. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. ISBN: 9781453704424.
8	Mill, John Stuart. Chapters 1–3 in On Liberty: The Subjection of Women. Nabu Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781146671996.
9	Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. Signet Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780451529060.
10	Nietzsche, Friedrich. Preface, part 1 (1, 6, 9, 23), part 2 (24, 26, 29, 36, 44), part 3 (52, 59, 61), part 7 (238–239), and part 9 in Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. Vintage, 1989. ISBN: 9780679724650.
11	Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. ISBN: 9780393304510.
12	Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. ISBN: 9780393304510. (cont.)
13	Tagore, Rabindranath. Broken Nest and Other Stories. Translated by Sharmistha Mohanty. Westland Limited, 2009. ISBN: 9788189975630.
14	Beauvoir, Simone de. “Introduction” In The Second Sex. Vintage, 2011. ISBN: 9780307277787. Parker-Pope, Tara. “Do Women Like Child Care More Than Men?” New York Times, March 22, 2012.
15	Beauvoir, Simone de. “Conclusion” In The Second Sex. Vintage, 2011. ISBN: 9780307277787.
16	Kincaid, Jamaica. “Girl.” (PDF) In At the Bottom of the River. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. ISBN: 9780374527341.
17	Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness and Other Tales. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780199536016. [Preview with Google Books]
18	Salih, Al-Tayyib, and Tayeb Salih. Season of Migration to the North: A Novel. NYRB Classics, 2009. ISBN: 9781590173022.
19	Salih, Al-Tayyib, and Tayeb Salih. Season of Migration to the North: A Novel. NYRB Classics, 2009. ISBN: 9781590173022. (cont.)
20	neversaidb4. “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (part 1).” June 24, 2008. YouTube. Accessed November 16, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-Bbz_TBMc. Said, Edward W. Orientalism. Vintage, 1979, pp. 1–92. ISBN: 9780394740676.
21	Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage Books, 1995, pp. 3–8, 195–228. ISBN: 9780679752554.
22	Arendt, Hannah. Reflections on Violence. Collier-MacMillan Ltd., 1969.
23	Milgram, Stanley. “The Perils of Obedience” in Representations: Essays on Literature and Society. Columbia University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780231074018. Marcus, Steven. “Authority and Obedience” in Representations: Essays on Literature and Society. Columbia University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780231074018. Zimbardo, Philip G. Stanford Prison Experiment. 1971.