E387R Schedule
Jan 17 Introductions
Jan 24 Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning Foley
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s “Concept of Enlightenment” (from Dialectic of Enlightenment) Bo
Watts's Elements of Logick
Jan 31 Thomas Hobbes’s De CiveJim
“Democracy of the Multitude” 3.3 in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s MultitudeJosh
Addison and Steele's Spectator and Tatler Foley
Feb 7 Thomas Hobbes’s De Cive
“Delegation and Political Fetishism” by Pierre Bourdieu (from Language and Symbolic Power) Todd
Thomas Spratt's History of the Royal Society Matt
Gilbert Austin's Chironomia Hala
Feb 14 Renee Descarte’s Discourse on Method & Meditations on First Philosophy Todd
“Cogito and the History of Madness” by Jacques Derrida (from Writing and Difference) Foley
Edmund Burke's On the Sublime and Beautiful Lauren
Feb 21 John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding Connie
“Explanation and Emancipation” by Andrew Collier (from Critical Realism: Essential Readings) Matt
Conjectures on Original Composition Molly
Feb 28 John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and
"Liberatory Pedagogy, Conceptual Knowledge: Toward a Practical Wisdom Disciplined by Scientific Observation” by Michael Bernard-Donals (from The Practice of Theory) Lauren
Locke's Second Treatise Molly
March 6 David Hume’s Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Bo
“Ancient Eloquence and the Revival of Virtue” by Adam Potkay (from Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume) nobody
Port-Royal Logic Todd
March 13 SPRING BREAK
March 20 Immanuel Kant’s Prolegomena Lauren
Introduction, chs. 1-2 from Michel Foucault’s Archeology of Knowledge Hala
John Witherspoon's Lectures on Eloquence and Moral Philosophy Amanda
March 27 Immanuel Kant’s Prolegomena
chs. 3-7 of Michel Foucault’s Archeology of Knowledge Connie
Kant's On the Perpetual Peace Jim
Vico's On the Study of the Methods of our Time Ty
April 3 Immanuel Kant’s Fundamental Principles Ashley
Jurgen Habermas “What is Universal Pragmatics?” (from Communication and the Evolution of Society) Ty
Priestley's Lectures Bo
April 10 Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments Ty
“Private Irony and Liberal Hope” by Richard Rorty (from Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity) Ashley
Kames's Elements of Criticism Matt
April 17 Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
“Compassion and Public Life” by Martha Nussbaum (from Upheavals of Thought) Amanda
Rousseau's Second Discourse & Essay on Language Hala
John Holmes's Art of Rhetoric Made Easy Ashley
April 24 Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
May 1 George Campbell’s Philosophy of Rhetoric