Course Readings

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Week 13 – November 30, 2016

Jack Kerouac, On the Road- Chapter 1

Jack Kerouac, Dharma-Bums, Chapters 1-2

 

Week 12 – November 16, 2016

Dante, Inferno, Cantos I-III, V, XXVI, XXXIV

 

Week 11 – November 9, 2016

Frank, The Conquest of Cool- Chapters I and IV

Madmen Dream Come True TV Chapter XIII

Mcluhan, The Mechanical Bride

 

Week 10 – November 2, 2016

O’brien The Things They Carried, excerpts

Vietnam Readings – A History of Our Times

 

Week 9 – October 26

Thomas Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chapters-V-VIII

 

Week 8 – October 19 

Bhagavad-Gita

 

Week 7 – October 12  Judgment Day (Particular)

Conferences with Professor

 

Week 6 – October 5 

Macbeth Act 1

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age-Chapter 13 The Age of Authenticity

 

Week 5 Readings – September 28

Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,  Chapter LXXI

Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (audio)

Marx, Communist Manifesto

 

Week 4 Readings – September 21

Sartre, No Exit

Ginsberg, Howl

O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

 

Week 3 Readings – September 14

Plotinus, Enneads, VI, 9: The One

Friedan, The Feminine Mystique-The Problem That Has No Name

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Introduction and Conclusion

 

Week 2 Readings – September 7 

Plato’s Meno

Plato’s Meno Project Gutenberg

Audio Version: Plato’s Meno

Cheever, The Swimmer

Modern American Culture – Chapt 2

New Sentimentality (2)