Civilization Sequence Program

CVSP 206: READING SCHEDULE

Summer Session 2010-2011

Assignment

June 20- 24

Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, transl. Donald A. Cress (Hackett), Discourses 1, 2, 4 & 5.

Bentham (Web link – CVSP reading selection, “Enlightenment II”).

June 27-July 1

Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Hackett), Preface: last two paragraphs (p. 5); First Section: p. 7 and bottom of p. 9 (beginning “The concept of a will estimable in itself…”) to bottom of p. 15; Second section: p. 19, bottom of p. 23 (beginning “Everything in nature works according to laws…”) to middle of p. 26, bottom of p. 29 (“if I think of a hypothetical imperative…”) to middle of p. 30, and near the top of p. 35 (“The will is thought of as a …”) to bottom of p. 41.

Goethe, Faust, Part I, tr. David Luke (Oxford World's Classics), pp. 3, 9-27, 30-62, 75-77, 81-121, 140-8.

July 4-8

Goethe, Faust, Part II, tr. David Luke (Oxford World's Classics), Act V, pp. 207-239.

Locke, The Second Treatise on Government, ed. C. B. Macpherson (Hackett), Ch1 §2-3; Ch2 §4, 6-8,14; Ch3 §16-19; Ch4, Ch5 §26-8, 31-2, 36, 40, 47-50; Ch7 §87-91, 93; Ch8 §95-7, 99, 119-120; Ch9; Ch11 §135; Ch12; Ch13 §149-153; Ch15 §172; Ch19 §221-2, 224-8, 232.

First Examination

July 11-15

Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto, ed. David McLellan (Oxford World’s Classics);

Selections from Smith (Web link – CVSP reading selection, “Enlightenment I”)

July 18-22

Darwin, The Origin of Species (Mentor). (Web link – CVSP reading selection)

Freud, Civilization and its Discontents (Norton).

Second Examination

July 25- 29

Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot (Faber & Faber).

Edward Said, Orientalism (Penguin), pp. 1-28, 31-49, 284-328, 329-354.

August 1-5

Tayyib Saleh, Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann).