HUM 2052: CIVILIZATION II
European Renaissance to the Modern World
Spring 2012
Dr. Perdigao
12:00-12:50 pm
1/13
Machiavelli, from The Prince (Norton v. 1: 1945-1947; 1949-1961)
Babacar Dilindi
Chapter 14: The Reformation: The Shattering of Christian Unity (Perry 316-339)
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1/18
Montaigne, “Of Cannibals” (Norton v. 1: 2178-2181; 2190-2199)
Chapter 15: European Expansion: Economic and Social Transformations (Perry 340-368)
1/20
Cervantes, from Don Quixote (Norton v. 1: 2217-2260)
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1/23
Cervantes, from Don Quixote (Norton v. 1: 2260-2306)
1/25
Cervantes, from Don Quixote (Norton v. 1: 2307-2349)
Bruno Poggi and Salime Torbey
1/27
Shakespeare, Hamlet (Norton v. 1: Act I-II.2: 2406-2446)
Heather Flavell
Chapter 16: The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State (Perry 370-399)
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1/30
Shakespeare, Hamlet (Norton v. 1: Act III-IV.7: 2447-2484)
Julie Fainberg
2/1
Shakespeare, Hamlet (Norton v. 1: Act V: 2484-2500)
Cameron Stahl and Mike Blaskovich
II. State Building to the Enlightenment (1648-1789)
2/3
The Enlightenment (1-9)
Chapter 17: The Scientific Revolution: The Universe Seen as a Mechanism (Perry 400418)
Stephen Nieroda
Chapter 18: The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform (Perry 420-451)
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2/6
Voltaire, from Candide (375-403)
Yielleen St Amour
2/8
Voltaire, from Candide (403-438)
2/10
The Situation of Women (235-236)
“Sophia,” Woman Not Inferior to Man (243-255)
von Hippel, On Improving the Status of Women (263-275)
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III. Age of Revolutions: French Revolution and Industrialization (1789-1848)
2/13
Chapter 19: The French Revolution: The Affirmation of Liberty and Equality (Perry 454480)
Chapter 20: Napoleon: Subverter and Preserver of the Revolution (Perry 482-498)
2/15
The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism (485-495)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Introduction: xi-xlvii; Author’s Introduction-Volume One,
Chapter III: 5-50)
2/17
Shelley, Frankenstein (Volume One, Chapter IV-Volume Two, Chapter II: 51-105)
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2/22
Shelley, Frankenstein (Volume Two, Chapter III-Volume Two, Chapter IX: 105-151)
Denis Andre and Marcus Morgan
2/24
Shelley, Frankenstein (Volume Three, Chapter I-Volume III, Chapter VII: 155-225)
Andrea Schrepfer
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2/27
Chapter 21: The Industrial Revolution: The Great Transformation (Perry 500-518)
Troy Toggweiler
Chapter 22: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century (Perry 520-546)
IV. Liberalism, Imperialism & the Development of the 19th Century World (1848-1914)
3/2
The Nineteenth Century: Realism and Symbolism (997-1007)
Revolutionary Principles (1369-1370)
Chapter 23: Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1815-1848 (Perry 548-569)
Chapter 24: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism and Social
Criticism (Perry 572-596)
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3/12
Darwin, from The Origin of Species; from The Descent of Man (1370-1381)
Zachary Miller
Marx & Engels, from Manifesto of the Communist Party (1381-1390)
Andrew Gilbride
3/14
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1250-1293)
Chapter 25: The Surge of Nationalism: From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism (Perry 598620)
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3/19
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1293-1327)
Pierre Bastings
3/21
Twentieth Century: Modernisms and Modernity (1621-1631)
Jessica Richardson
Chapter 26: The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization (Perry 622-648)
3/23
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1632-1669)
Erikka Redford
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3/26
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1669-1692)
Chapter 27: Imperialism: Western Global Dominance (Perry 650-676)
V. A Disconcerted Modernity (1914-1945)
3/28
Civilization on Trial (1692-1693)
Freud, from The Future of an Illusion; from Civilization and Its
Discontents (1693-1699)
Matt Walsh
Chapter 28: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, Human Nature, and the Arts
(Perry 678-705)
3/30
Valéry, The Crisis of the Mind (1701-1705)
Spengler, The Decline of the West (1706-1710)
Chapter 29: World War I: The West in Despair (Perry 708-745)
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4/2
Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Act I: 1736-1757)
4/4
Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Acts II, III: 1757-1780)
Kyle Fontaine
Chapter 30: An Era of Totalitarianism (Perry 746-789)
4/6
Freedom and Responsibility at Mid-Century (2096)
Orwell, from The Prevention of Literature (2096-2102)
Sartre, Being and Nothingness (2102-2107)
Chapter 31: Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism (Perry
790-813)
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4/9
Tadeusz Borowski, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber (2304-2320)
Delbert Maritt
Chapter 32: World War II: Western Civilization in the Balance (Perry 814-847)
Thomas Rochester
VI. The Contemporary World, 1945-2011
4/11
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (Chapters 1-3: 1-71)
Matt Atiyat
Chapter 33: Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment (Perry 850-869)
4/13
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (Chapters 4-5: 72-135)
Michael Blackiston
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4/16
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (Chapters 6-8: 136-181)
Erica vonBampus
4/18
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (Chapters 9-10: 182-215)
4/20
Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (2179-2188)
Chapter 34: The Troubled Present (Perry 870-899)