Fall Semester 2023

This list may be subject to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean’s office.

Fall Semester Appendix

Tocqueville

The reading assignments in Tocqueville are as follows in the 2-volume Vintage paperback (Bradley), Harper Perennial (George Lawrence), and University of Chicago Press (Mansfield):

September 25

Vintage

• Volume I: Author’s Introduction; chapter 3, chapter 5 (omitting 68 bottom–85 bottom third), chapter 6 (to 103 middle), chapters 15–16, chapter 17 (pages 303–307 and 326–end [330])

Harper Perennial

• Volume I: Author’s Introduction; Pt. I, chapter 3, chapter 5 (omitting 70 bottom–86), chapter 6 (to 104 top); Pt. II, chapter 7–8, chapter 9 (pages 290–294 and bottom of page 311–end [315])

University of Chicago Press

• Volume I, Part I: Author’s Introduction; chapter 3, chapter 5 (omitting page 65 bottom–82 top), chapter 6 (to page 98 top); Part II, chapters 7–8, chapter 9 (pages 278–282 and bottom of page 298–end [302])

September 28

Vintage

• Volume I: chapter 18 (pages 331–381, from 421 bottom–429 top third; and 434, final 2 paragraphs); Volume II: Book I, chapters 1–3, 5

Harper Perennial

• Volume I, Part II: chapter 10 (pages 316-363, 400–407 and 412 [beginning “There are now two great nations”]–413) Volume II: Part I, chapters 1–3, 5

University of Chicago Press

• Volume I, Part II: chapter 10 (pages 302–348, 384–390; and 395 [beginning “There are two great peoples”]–396); Volume II: Part I, chapters 1–3, 5

October 2

• Vintage, Harper Perennial, or University of Chicago Press (editions are identical for this reading): Volume II, Part II, chapters 1–15; Part III, chapters 8–10, 12; Part IV, chapters 6–8

Marx

The readings in Marx’s Capital for the seminars on October 9 and 12 are as follows (the Bookstore carries the International Publishers, Dover, and Dover Thrift editions. Carefully distinguish whether your edition is Dover or Dover Thrift.):

The October 12 reading also includes The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Chapters “Estranged Labor” and “Private Property and Communism” (Prometheus edition, pages 69–84, 100–114)

Spring Semester 2024

This list may be subject to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean’s office.

SPRING SEMESTER APPENDIX

The Federalist, Supreme Court Opinions, & Constitution of the United States

April 4

• The Federalist 78, first nine paragraphs of 81; and Supreme Court Opinion: Marbury v. Madison, 1803 and “The Rule Must Be Discharged” and Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 in Senior Seminar Readings (Bookstore—photocopy, pp. 4–24)
• State Court Opinion: Eakin v. Raub, 1825 (photocopy, pp. 25–29)
• U.S. Constitution, Articles III and VI (photocopy, pp. 30–31)

Lincoln Assignments

The Lincoln assignments for April 8 and April 11 are taken from the Dover Thrift Edition and photocopies in Senior Seminar Readings and in Senior Seminar Supplementary Readings (Bookstore).

April 8

• Dred Scott Decision, 1857, (photocopy, pp. 32–38)
• Dred Scott: Curtis Dissent (pp. 39–45)
• Lincoln: The Constitution and The Union, 1860 (photocopy, p. 46)
• Lincoln: “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions”: Address Before Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum, 1838 (pp. 47–52)
• Lincoln: “The Declaration of Independence Includes All Men”: Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (photocopy, pp. 53–58)
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858:
  • “Difference Between the White and Black Races,” Charleston, September 18 (photocopy, p. 59)
  • “Now, While I am Upon this Subject,” Alton, October 15 (photocopy, pp. 60–62)
  • “I Have Intimated that I Thought,” Alton, October 15 (photocopy, pp. 63–64)
• Lincoln: Address at the Cooper Union, 1860 (pp. 65–77)
• Lincoln: Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 12, 1861 (p. 78)
• Frederick Douglass: ‘The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?” 1860 (photocopy, pp. 79–87)

April 11

• Lincoln: First Inaugural Address, 1861 (pp. 88–94)
• Lincoln: “My Paramount Object”: Reply to Horace Greeley, 1862 (photocopy, p. 95)
• Lincoln: Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862: starting from the paragraph beginning, “Our national strife springs not from our permanent part, not from the land we inhabit, not from our national homestead,” to the end (pp. 96–103).
• Lincoln: Gettysburg Address, 1863 (p. 104)
• Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address, 1865 (pp. 105–106)
• Frederick Douglass: “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln,” 1876 (photocopy, pp. 107–114)
• Booker T. Washington (Bookstore—in Senior Seminar Reading)
  • “Atlanta Exposition Address,” 1901 (photocopy, pp. 115–117)
  • “Our New Citizen,” 1896 (photocopy, pp. 118–119)
  • “Democracy and Education,” 1890 (photocopy, pp. 120–127)

W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk

April 15

• Forethought
• Chapters I–VII

April 18

• Chapters VIII–XIV
• Afterthought

De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex

For reading assignments in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, the page numbers are taken from the unabridged 2010 Knopf edition or the 2011 Vintage Books edition (both editions translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier). Please be aware that earlier editions may be abridged and may not include all of the relevant pages.

April 25

De Beauvoir, The Second Sex:
Volume I, Facts and Myths, Introduction, pages 1–17.

• Part 1, Chapter 1, Biological Data, pages 21–26 (ending at the defined section break), and pages 38–48 (beginning at, “In the human species …”).
• Part 1, Chapter 3, The Point of View of Historical Materialism, pages 62–68.
• Part 2, History, Chapters 1 and 2, pages 71–89.

April 29

De Beauvoir, The Second Sex:
Volume II, Part 2, Lived Experience, Part 2, Chapter 5, The Married Woman, pages 439–443 (to the first section break), and pages 468–489 (to the end of the quotation).

• Part 2, Chapter 6, The Mother, pages 565 (top)–570 (the end of the chapter).
• Part 2, Chapter 10, Woman’s Situation and Character, pages 638–664.
• Part 4: Conclusion, pages 753–767.

Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics

The May 2 and May 6 assignments from Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics are as follows (page numbers are from the Fried and Polt first and second editions):

May 2

• (First Edition) Chapter 1 (pp. 1–44); Chapter 3 (pp. 79–97)
• (Second Edition) Chapter 1 (pp. 1–47 top); Chapter 3 (pp. 82–101)

May 6

• (First Edition) Chapter 4 (pp. 98–113, 122–125, 130–155, 191–214, stopping at the asterisks)
• (Second Edition) Chapter 4 (pp. 102–118; 128–131 middle, 135 bottom–163 top, 199 middle at “It is not part …”–222)