The Collegiate Seminar program selects texts carefully, and as such specifies the editions of the texts assigned. Please take note of this point as you are buying books. Typesetting necessarily changes the page order of books, and some editions will have differences in the translations. As I am sure you appreciate, it is important that we are all reading the same text! Below are the approved editions:
- Machiavelli, The Prince, tr. Bondanella (Oxford World’s Classics, ISBN 9780199535699)
- Luther, The Freedom of a Christian, tr. Tranvick (Fortress, ISBN 9780800663117)
- Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, tr. Griffin (Penguin, ISBN 9780140445626)
- Shakespeare, Macbeth (The Pelican Shakespeare, ISBN 9780143128564)
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, The Answer (Feminist Press, ISBN 9781558615984)
- Marx, The Communist Manifesto, tr. Moore (International Publishers, ISBN 9780717802418)
- Dickens, Hard Times (Dover Publications, ISBN 9780486419206)
- Darwin, The Origin of Species, ed. Appleman (Norton, ISBN 9780393978674)
- Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, tr. MacAndrew and Marcus (Signet Classics, ISBN 9780451529558)
- Reader: (XanEdu, ISBN 9781506698878)
| February 9 | Maps, (c. 1500, contemporary and historical) and John Donne, “The Good Morrow” (1633) |
| February 11 | Machiavelli, The Prince, chs. 1-3, 5-10, 15-19 (stop 3/4s down p. 67) & 21 (1513) |
| February 16 | Luther, The Freedom of a Christian pp. 31-65 (1520) |
| February 18 | Luther, The Freedom of a Christian pp. 66-96 (1520) |
| February 23 | de las Casas, Devastation of the Indies: Preface, Hispaniola, Cuba, Yucatán, Santa Marta, Pearl Coast, Conclusion, (1542) and de Vitoria, On the Indians (1537) |
| February 25 | de Navarre, selections from the Heptameron (1559) |
| March 2 | Shakespeare, Macbeth, Acts 1-2 (1623) |
| March 4 | Shakespeare, Macbeth, Acts 3-5 |
| March 9 | Descartes, Discourse on Method, parts I-IV (1637) |
| March 11 | Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, pp. 39-105 (1637) |
| March 16 | Hobbes, Leviathan, 1.13, 1.14, 2.17, 2.18, 2.21 (1651) |
| March 18 | de la Cruz, from The Answer pp. 39-105 (1648) |
| March 23 | Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (1761) |
| March 25 | Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book 1 (1762) |
| March 30 | Easter Recess |
| April 1 | Easter Recess |
| April 6 | Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman Introduction + chapters. 2, 3, and 9 (1792) |
| April 8 | Poe, The Mask of Red Death (1842) |
| April 13 | Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto (1847) |
| April 15 | Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852) |
| April 20 | Dickens, Hard Times, bk. I, chs. 1-11, pp. 1-57 (1859) |
| April 22 | Dickens, Hard Times, bk. I, chs. 12-16, bk. II, chs. 1-5, pp 57-114 |
| April 27 | Dickens, Hard Times, bk. II, chs. 6-12, pp. 114-16 |
| April 29 | Dickens, Hard Times, bk. III |
| May 4 | Darwin, The Origin of Species, pp. 27-74 (1859) |
| May 6 | Darwin, The Origin of Species, pp. 75-121 |
| May 11 | Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891) |
| May 13 | Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part 1 (1861) |
| May 18 | FINALS MEETING |
| May 20 | Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part 2 (1861); Maps (c. 1850 – 1900 contemporary and historical) |