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News forum
Philosophical Vocabulary
(scroll down to p. 5) PDF
document
Outline of History of
Philosophy file
7 January - 13 January
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First Class Documents
syllabus file
Essay on Yeats's Byzantium Poems Word
document
Byzantium poems file
Wordsworth, "Intimations" PDF document
14 January - 20 January
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Porphyry, The Cave of the Nymphs. Thomas
Taylor translation.
Porphyry, Cave, L. trans. & intro PDF
document
On Blake's Book of Thel file
Blake, The Book of Thel file
Blake's The Sea of Time and Space file
Raine essay on Blake's Sea of Time and Space
PDF document
Essay on Porphyry's Cave of the Nymphs file
21 January - 27 January
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Jullien, Preface PDF document
Jullien, chapters I-III PDF document
Jullien, notes for cc.I-III PDF document
Jullien, Glossary PDF document
Tao Te Ching, trans. Stephen Mitchell file
Shi Jing file
Tang Shi San Bai Shu (300 Tang Poems) file
Sun Tzu, The Art of War (sound recording)
file
Chinese Classics file
28 January - 3 February
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Jullien, c. XII PDF document
Jullien, c. XIII PDF document
Jullien, c. XIV PDF document
Jullien, notes for chapters XII-XIV PDF
document
Zhuangzi file
Fenollosa (and Pound), The Chinese Written
Character as a Medium for Poetry PDF
document
Ni Zan (1372) Landscape of Blandness file
Ni Zan, Water and Bamboo file
Ni Zan, Faded Landscape file
4 February - 10 February
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Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets
(abridged) PDF document
Haines, Deepening the Self PDF document
11 February - 17 February
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Xin Nian Kuai Le !?
18 February - 24 February
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Franke, Hamlet as a Tragedy of Knowledge
file
Cavell, Disowning Knowledge (On
Shakspeare) PDF document
Cavell, on Hamlet (continuation, pp. 184-91)
PDF document
Franke, Cavell and the Philosophical
Criticism of Literature Word document
Zeffirelli's Hamlet file
Zeffirelli's Hamlet, The Ghost Scene file
Olivier's "To be or not to be" file
25 February - 3 March
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Conclude Student Interpretations of Poems from
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Shi Jing
Jullien, Detour and Access, c. VII PDF
document
Jullien, Detour and Access, c. VIII PDF
document
Jullien, Detour and Access, notes cc. 7-8 PDF
document
4 March - 10 March
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Dante's Inferno, cantos 1-5 PDF document
Inferno, cantos 1-5, notes PDF document
Vico & Schelling, Dante in Relation to
Philosophy (odd pp) PDF document
Vico & Schelling, Dante in Relation to
Philosophy (even pp) PDF document
Schlegel, on Dante PDF document
Agamben, The End of the Poem PDF
document
Dante's Inferno, cantos 1-5, Mandelbaum
trans. PDF document
Inferno 1-5 Notes (Mandelbaum trans.) PDF
document
Franke, Introduction to Inferno PDF
document
Dante's Hell images file
11 March - 17 March
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Schiller, On Naive and Sentimental Poetry file
Schiller, On Naive and Sentimental Poetry,
selection file
Beethoven's 9th Symphony: Schiller's Ode to
Joy file
Schiller's Ode to Joy, text and translation PDF
document
18 March - 24 March
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Bakhtin on Rabelais, Introduction PDF
document
Bakhtin on Rabelais, c. 1 PDF document
Holbein, Durer, "Dance of Death" file
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Durer's illustrations for Ship of Fools file
+ Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi, Legge translation file
+ Brief Student Interpretations of a Poem of
their choice as either naive or sentimental or
both or neither. Include information on the
poem's provenance.
Schroeder Poetry Lecture Event PDF
document
25 March - 31 March
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Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy file
Kierkegaard, on Margarete PDF document
Silenus file
Archilochus file
Raffael's Transfiguration file
Mozart's Don Giovanni file
Leporello's Catalogue - text and translation
Resource
Leporello's aria Madamina file
Leporello's aria Madamina (Ketelson version)
file
Deutsche Version file
1 April - 7 April
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This week
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Benjamin, On Some Motifs in Baudelaire
PDF document
Benjamin, Some Motifs in Baudelaire file
Benjamin, On Some Motives of Baudelaire
PDF document
Baudelaire, Correspondances Resource
Correspondances + translation file
Baudelaire, Invitation au voyage Resource
Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of
Evil) file
Jeffrey's Poem file
Yoyo's Poem Word document
April's poem Word document
Abigail's Poem file
Marsha's Poem file
8 April - 14 April
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Adorno & Horkheimer, Dialectic of
Enlightenment PDF document
White, On Dialectic of Enlightenment PDF
document
Patch, Song of Siren and the NonTranscendental PDF document
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Student Presentation of Research Project:
Jeffrey: Wordsworth, Tao Qian, and the Unity of
Self and Nature
15 April - 21 April
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Student Presentations of Research Projects
Yoyo, Dao-de-Jing: A Different Point of View
from Jullien’s
April: Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Camilia: Chinese poetry and poetics: Zhu Xi
Abigail: Blake's Songs of Innocence and of
Experience; the growth of self and soul
Marsha: Analysing Chinese Arts Based on
Jullien
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Jasmine, Coleridge's 'Rhyme of the Ancient
Mariner' as a philosophical poem
Celina: Blake, Book of Thel, comparison with
Chinese culture
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Florence: Dante and Religion, the soul’s
allegorical journey to God
22 April - 28 April
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Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life, “Conclusion:
Don Quixote in the Contemporary European
Tragi-Comedy” PDF document
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All Final Papers Due on April 23 1 print copy please