HUM 2052: CIVILIZATION II
European Renaissance to the Modern World
Spring 2014
Dr. Perdigao
11:00-11:50 pm
1/13
Machiavelli, from The Prince (Norton v. 1: 1945-1947; 1949-1961)
Vivic Harrinanan and Sam Ho
Chapter 14: The Reformation: The Shattering of Christian Unity (Perry 315-339)
1/15
Montaigne, “Of Cannibals” (Norton v. 1: 2178-2181; 2190-2199)
Chapter 15: European Expansion: Economic and Social Transformations (Perry 340-367)
1/17
Cervantes, from Don Quixote (Norton v. 1: 2217-2260)
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1/22
Cervantes, from Don Quixote (Norton v. 1: 2260-2306)
Xavier Merino and Tatjana Jemmott
1/24
Cervantes, from Don Quixote (Norton v. 1: 2307-2349)
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1/27
Chapter 16: The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State (Perry 368-398)
II. State Building to the Enlightenment (1648-1789)
1/29
Chapter 17: The Scientific Revolution: The Universe Seen as a Mechanism (Perry 399418)
Kristine Boozer
Chapter 18: The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform (Perry 419-451)
1/31
Voltaire, from Candide (375-403)
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2/3
Voltaire, from Candide (403-438)
2/5
“Sophia,” Woman Not Inferior to Man (243-255)
2/7
von Hippel, On Improving the Status of Women (263-275)
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III. Age of Revolutions: French Revolution and Industrialization (1789-1848)
2/10
Chapter 19: The French Revolution: The Affirmation of Liberty and Equality (Perry 454486)
Daniel Myers
2/12
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Introduction: xi-xlvii; Author’s Introduction-Volume One,
Chapter III: 5-50)
Timothy Von Friesen and Lonnie White
2/14
Shelley, Frankenstein (Volume One, Chapter IV-Volume Two, Chapter II: 51-105)
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2/19
Shelley, Frankenstein (Volume Two, Chapter III-Volume Two, Chapter IX: 105-151)
2/21
Shelley, Frankenstein (Volume Three, Chapter I-Volume III, Chapter VII: 155-225)
Saqer Aljeemaz and Mubarak Almashari
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2/24
Chapter 20: The Industrial Revolution: The Great Transformation (Perry 487-506)
Thaddeus Berger
Chapter 21: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century (Perry 507-534)
IV. Liberalism, Imperialism & the Development of the 19th Century World (1848-1914)
2/28
Chapter 22: Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1815-1848 (Perry 535-557)
Chapter 23: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism and Social
Criticism (Perry 560-585)
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3/10
Darwin, from The Origin of Species; from The Descent of Man (1370-1381)
Eric Collier and Paul Kepinski
Marx & Engels, from Manifesto of the Communist Party (1381-1390)
3/12
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1250-1293)
Chapter 24: The Surge of Nationalism: From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism (Perry 586609)
3/14
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1293-1327)
Josh Cox
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3/17
Chapter 25: The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization (Perry 610-637)
3/19
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1632-1669)
3/21
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1669-1692)
Leyane Mohammed
Chapter 26: Imperialism: Western Global Dominance (Perry 638-665)
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V. A Disconcerted Modernity (1914-1945)
3/24
Freud, from The Future of an Illusion; from Civilization and Its
Discontents (1693-1699)
Chapter 27: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, Human Nature, and the Arts
(Perry 666-693)
3/26
Valéry, The Crisis of the Mind (1701-1705)
Spengler, The Decline of the West (1706-1710)
Chapter 28: World War I: The West in Despair (Perry 696-733)
T-Grow and Kenny Johnston
3/28
Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Act I: 1736-1757)
Noah Bland
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3/31
Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Acts II, III: 1757-1780)
Chapter 29: An Era of Totalitarianism (Perry 734-777)
4/2
Sartre, Being and Nothingness (2102-2107)
Chapter 30: Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism (Perry
778-798)
Tadeusz Borowski, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber (2304-2320)
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4/7
Chapter 31: World War II: Western Civilization in the Balance (Perry 799-833)
VI. The Contemporary World, 1945-2014
4/9
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (Chapters 1-3: 1-71)
Sarah Bok
Chapter 32: Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989 (Perry
836-862)
4/11
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (Chapters 4-5: 72-135)
Antonio Berber and Tyler Krause
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4/14
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (Chapters 6-8: 136-181)
4/16
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (Chapters 9-10: 182-215)
Yingying Zheng and Xianwei Xia
4/18
Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (2179-2188)
Chapter 33: The Troubled Present (Perry 863-885)
Chenke Li and Chengyu Li