SLE B-Sides
- Beckett, Molloy
- Goethe, Elective Affinities
- Antelme, The Human Race
- Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
- Plato, Phaedrus
- Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900
- Duras, The Malady of Death
- Paul Celan, Breathturn
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- Bernard Mandeville, Fable of the Bees
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
- Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond
- Christine de Pizan, City of Ladies
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Voltaire, Letters on the English
- Montesquieu, Persian Letters
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- The Hebrew Bible
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Petrarch, Il Canzoniere
- Dali, Hidden Faces
- Camus, The First Man
- Blanchot, The Last Man
- Kierkegaard, Complete Works
- Heidegger, everything
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- Aristotle, Metaphysics
- Hipponax
- Seneca, Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii (Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius)
- Anselme, Proslogium
- Aquinas, De Ente et Essentia (Of Being and Essence)
- Kant, Critique of Judgment
- J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor
- Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame
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- The Book of Job
- Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Confucius & Mencius
- Chuang Tzu
- Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies
- Montaigne, Essays
- Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
- Camus, The Plague
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- The Presocratics
- Plato, Phaedo
- Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
- Teresa of Ávila, Autobiography
- The Trobairitz
- Chandler, The Big Sleep
- Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
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- Camus, The Plague
- Anything by Kafka (the Diaries)
- James, Varieties of Religious Experience
- Salih, Season of Migration to the North
Barnard First-Year English
- Hymn to Demeter
- The Book of Margery Kempe
- Candide (Voltaire)
- La Boheme (Puccini)
Columbia
- City of God, Augustine
- Herodotus, Histories
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Epicurus, Letters to Herodotus +Menoeceus, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings
- Epictetus, Handbook
- Isaiah, Ecclesiates, Romans, Galatians
- Hildegard
- New World: Vitoria (On the American Indians), de Sepulveda (Democrates Alter)
- Letter to the Grand Duchess, Galileo
- Montaigne, Essays
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- Locke, Letter on Toleration
- Hume, Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Smith, Wealth of Nations
- Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
- American Revolution: Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federalists 1, 2, 9, 10, 23, 47, 84, Anti-Federalist Writings
- French Revolution Texts: Declarations of the Rights of Man and the Citizen: Preface to the Constitution of 1789, Robespierre, On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy
- Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History
- Mill, Utilitarianism
- duBois, The Souls of Black Folk
- Freud - Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Civilization and its Discontents
- Schmidt - The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
- Woolf, Three Guineas
- Arendt, The Human Condition
- Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Rawls, A Theory of Justice
- Foucault, Discipline and Punish
- MacKinnon, Towards a Feminist Theory of State
Optional CC readings:
- The Essential Kabbalah
- Ayala, Appeal Concerning the Priests
- Rushd, On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy
- Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
- Maimonides, On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy, The Guide of the Perplexed
- duBois, The Souls of White Folk
- Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit, on "Lordship and Bondage"
- Madison, Federalist 51
- Bentham, Anarchical Fallacies
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
- Preface to the Constitution of 1793
- 1805 Haitian Constitution
- Foucault, What is Enlightenment?
- Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
Art Hum - Helpful Texts:
- Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art, 8th edition (New York, 2005)
- James Pierce, From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History, 7th edition (Englewood
Cliffs, 1987)
- Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1964)
- Joshua C. Taylor, Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts, 2 edition
(Chicago, 1981)
Music Hum - Helpful Texts:
- Listen (Kerman & Tomlinson)
- Music: A Listener's Introduction (Levy)
- Old copy of course can be found hear: http://www.kitbraz.com/tchr/hist/cuindex.html
- Digital Resources
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