Santa Fe Senior Schedule of Seminar Readings

Senior Seminar Readings

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Senior Seminar Readings for Fall 2021
Date	Reading
August 26	Tolstoy, War and Peace
August 30	Tolstoy, War and Peace
September 2	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Introduction” (pp. 46–57)
September 6	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Sense-Certainty and Perception” (pp. 58–79)
September 9	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Self Consciousness” (pp. 104–119)
September 13	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness” (pp. 119–138)
September 16	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Spirit: The ethical order: The ethical world & Ethical action” (pp. 263–289)
September 20	Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction (pp. 12–56 Rauch translation)
September 23	Marx (All Marx readings from The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker) Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts: Estranged Labor, Private Property and Communism, The Meaning of Human Requirements, The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society, pp. 70–105 Communist Manifesto
September 27	Marx (All Marx readings from The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker) On the Jewish Question, Part I, pp. 26–46 The German Ideology, Part I, “Feuerbach”, pp. 146–202
September 30	Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, from the Preface through the “First Problem” and the Epilogue
October 4	Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, The beginning of the book through the section titled “Despair Over the Earthly or Something Earthly,” pp. 1–60, Princeton edition, Hong translation, or pp. 33–91, Penguin Classics edition, Hannay translation
October 7	Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, The remainder of the book, skipping several sections, beginning with “Sin is Not a Negation but a Position” through the first, introductory section of “The Continuance of Sin.” In other words, read pp. 60–96, 109–131, Princeton Edition, or pp. 91–128, 142–165, Penguin Classics.
October 11	Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Preface, Parts I & II
October 14	Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Parts III–V
October 18	Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Parts VI & VII
October 21	Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Parts VIII & IX, “Aftersong”
October 25	Preceptorials
October 28	Preceptorials
November 1	Preceptorials
November 4	Preceptorials
November 8	Preceptorials
November 11	Preceptorials
November 15	Preceptorials
November 16	Preceptorials
November 22	Preceptorials
November 29	Preceptorials
December 2	Preceptorials
December 6	Preceptorials
December 9	Preceptorials
December 13	Preceptorials
December 16	Preceptorials

2020–21 Academic Year

Spring 2021

Senior Seminar Readings for Spring 2021
Date	Readings
January 18	Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
January 21	Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
January 25	Essay Preparation
January 28	Essay Preparation
February 1	Essay Preparation
February 4	Essay Preparation
February 8	Essay Preparation
February 11	Essay Preparation
February 15	Tocqueville, Democracy in America Vintage edition: I.intro. (pp.3–16); I.1–5 to p. 68 (pp.17–68); I.9–12 (pp. 173–198). Chicago edition: I.i.intro. (pp. 3–15); I.i.1–5 to p. 65 (pp. 19–65); I.ii.1–4 (pp.165–186)
February 18	Tocqueville, Democracy in America Vintage edition: I.14–16 (pp. 237–287); II.i.1–2 (pp.3–12); II.i.5–8 (pp.20–34); II.i.10, 15, 17, 20 (pp.41–47, 62-63, 71-76, 85–88). Chicago edition: I.ii.6–8 (pp. 220–264); II.i.1–2 (pp.403–410); II.i.5–8 (pp. 417–428); II.i.10, 15, 17, 20 (pp. 433–439, 450–452, 458–463, 469–472)
February 22	Tocqueville, Democracy in America Vintage edition: II.ii.1–4 (pp. 94–105); II.ii.8–13 (pp.121–139); II.iii.1 (pp.162–167); II.iv (pp. 287–334) Chicago edition: II.ii.1–4 (pp. 479–488); II.ii.8–13 (pp. 500–514); II.iii.1 (pp. 535–539); II.iv (pp. 639–676)
February 25	Melville, Benito Cereno
March 1	Dred Scott Decision: Dred Scott v. Sandford (photocopy) Lincoln Speech on Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (photocopy) Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is it Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (photocopy) Lincoln’s Address at Cooper Union, 1860 (Abraham Lincoln Great Speeches, Dover Thrift Edition)
March 4	Lincoln Speeches (all are in Abraham Lincoln Great Speeches, Dover Thrift Edition) and Constitutional Amendments: “The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions.” Address before Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum, 1838 “A House Divided.” Speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois at the close of the Republican State Convention, 1858 First Inaugural Address, 1861 Final Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, 1863 Second Inaugural Address, 1865 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
March 8	DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapters 1–7
March 11	DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapters 8–14
March 22	George Eliot, Middlemarch, Prelude, Books 1–5
March 25	George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 6
March 29	George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 7
April 1	George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 8, Finale
April 5	Freud, Introductory Lectures, I–VIII
April 8	Freud, Introductory Lectures, IX–XI, XIII–XIV, XVII (pp. 323–333 only), XVIII–XIX The page numbers refer only to the Liveright Edition, © 1966, W.W. Norton & Company.
April 12	Long Weekend
April 15	Freud, Introductory Lectures, XX–XXIV
April 19	Joyce, “The Dead”
April 22	Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
April 26	Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
April 29	Long Weekend
May 3	De Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Vintage Books, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Volume I, Facts and Myths, Introduction, pages 1–17. Part 2, History, Chapters 1–4, pages 71–125.
May 6	De Beauvoir, The Second Sex Volume I, Facts and Myths, Part 2, History, Chapter 5, pages 126–156. Volume II, Lived Experience, Part 2, Chapter 5, The Married Woman, pages 439–443 (to the first section break). 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.
May 10	O’Connor, “The Displaced Person”
May 13	James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
May 17	Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism,” pages 213—265 Basic Writings, Harper San Francisco, 1993
May 20	Plato, Phaedrus

Fall 2020

Senior Seminar Readings for Fall 2020
Date	Reading
August 27	Tolstoy, War and Peace
August 31	Tolstoy, War and Peace
September 3	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Introduction” (pp. 46–57)
September 7	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Sense-Certainty and Perception” (pp. 58–79)
September 10	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Self Consciousness” (pp. 104–119)
September 14	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness” (pp. 119–138)
September 17	Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Spirit: The ethical order: The ethical world & Ethical action” (pp. 263–289)
September 21	Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction (pp. 12–56 Rauch translation)
September 24	Marx (All Marx readings from The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker) Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts: Estranged Labor, Private Property and Communism, The Meaning of Human Requirements, The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society, pp. 70–105 Communist Manifesto
September 28	Marx (All Marx readings from The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker) On the Jewish Question, Part I, pp. 26–46 The German Ideology, Part I, “Feuerbach”, pp. 146–202
October 1	Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, from the Preface through the “First Problem” and the Epilogue
October 5	Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, The beginning of the book through the section titled “Despair Over the Earthly or Something Earthly,” pp. 1–60, Princeton edition, Hong translation, or pp. 33–91, Penguin Classics edition, Hannay translation
October 8	Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, The remainder of the book, skipping the sections beginning with “Sin is Not a Negation but a Position” through “The Continuance of Sin,” pp. 60–96, 109–131, Princeton Edition, or pp. 91–128, 142–165, Penguin Classics
October 12	Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Preface, Parts I & II
October 15	Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Parts III–V
October 19	Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Parts VI & VII
October 22	Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Parts VIII & IX, “Aftersong”
October 26	Preceptorials
October 29	Preceptorials
November 2	Preceptorials
November 5	Preceptorials
November 9	Preceptorials
November 12	Preceptorials
November 16	Preceptorials
November 19	Preceptorials
November 23	Preceptorials
November 30	Preceptorials
December 3	Preceptorials
December 7	Preceptorials
December 10	Preceptorials
December 14	Preceptorials
December 17	Preceptorials

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