Modern Intellectual History TR 2:10-3:25 PM Room T-215 HIST 4350, 3-0-3 (CRN 89149) Fall 2012 Dr. John Kohler Office T-215 Office hours: Tuesday/Thursday, 1:30-2:15, 3:25-4:00 Phone 770 640 1540 Fax 770 640 7534 Email:
[email protected] Webpage: http://a-s.clayton.edu/jkohler/ Course Description: An introduction to the global history of ideas, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present with major emphasis on Europe and America. Required Course Materials : CourseTextbook: Marvin Perry, An Perry, An Intellectual History of Modern Europe, Europe, 1993
Similar Related Works: Roland Stromberg, European Stromberg, European Intellectual History since 1789 (6th edition); Peter Watson, The Modern Mind, Primary Sources: Franklin Le Van Baumer, Main Baumer, Main Currents of Western Thought, Readings in Western European Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present, Present, 1978. David A. Hollinger and Charles Capper, The American Intellectual Tradition (vol. Tradition (vol. 1&2), 2001. Online text: John Steven Kreis, The History Guide, Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History, History, http://www.historyguide.org/ Manual of Style for History majors Turabian, Kate L. A L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 7th Dissertations. 7th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. List of books for assigned book reviews: (Available in our library or through inter-library loan) 1. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), The Prince 2. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Leviathan (1588-1679), Leviathan 3. John Locke (1632-1704), Essay (1632-1704), Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 4. John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government 5. Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755), The Spirit of the Laws 6. Adam Smith (1723-1790) The Wealth of Nations 7. Voltaire (1694-1778), The Portable Voltaire 8. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), The Portable Jefferson 9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Sorrows of Werther 10. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), The Social Contract
11. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Essays, “The Divinity School Address,” “Self Reliance,” “Nature,” “Politics.” 12. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden Pond 13. Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Reflections on the Revolution in France 14. Adam Smith (1723-1790), The Wealth of Nations 15. Karl Marx (1818-1883) The Communist Manifesto 16. Charles Darwin (1809-1882), The Origin of Species 17. William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), What Social Classes Owe Each Other 18. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), On Liberty 19. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Civilization and its Discontents 20. Aldus Huxley (1874-1963), Brave New World 21. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), The Sun Also Rises 22. T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), The Wasteland 23. Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), The Decline of the West 24. Franz Kafka (1883-1924), The Trial or The Castle 25. John Steinbeck (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath 26. George Orwell (1903-1950), Animal Farm, 1984. 27. Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) , Darkness at Noon 28. John Dewey (1859-1952), Democracy and Education 29. Walter Rauschenbush (1860-1918), Christianity and the Social Crisis 30. Herbert Croly (1889-1930), The Promise of American Life 31. Southern Agrarians , I’ll Take My Stand 32. Jean-Paul Sarte (1905-1980), Nausea or Being and Nothingness 33. F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), The Road to Serfdom 34. Milton Friedman (1912-2006), Capitalism and Freedom 35. Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Eros and Civilization (1955) or One-Dimensional Man (1964). 36. Theodore Roszak (1933-2011), The Making of a Counter Culture 37. Charles A. Reich (b.1928), The Greening of America, 1970 38. Daniel Boorstin (1914-2004), The Americans (3 vols) 39. Norman Podhoretz (b.1930), Breaking Ranks 40. Irving Kristal (1920-2009), Neoconservatism, The Autobiography of an Idea Core Curriculum Outcomes: http://www.clayton.edu/Portals/5/core_curriculum_outcomes_clayton.pdf Student Learning Outcomes for the History Major The History degree program is composed of courses on specific aspects of history drawn from a range of time periods, cultures, and geographic areas to provide the context in which students are able to demonstrate learning outcomes. Thus, graduates of the history program at CCSU will be able to do the following: 1. Identify and describe basic chronologies of U.S. and world history. 2. Identify and critically evaluate primary and secondary historical sources. 3. Identify and evaluate conflicting historical interpretations of events and personalities. 4. Perform historical research using primary and secondary sources in libraries, archives, and other repositories of historical records.
5. Write in a clear, analytical and organized manner, demonstrating appropriate professional documentation methods. 6. Discuss historical findings in clear and coherent oral presentations. Students in Hist 4350 will be evaluated on Outcomes 2 and 3. Outcome 2. Addressed and assessed in book reviews. Outcome 3. Addressed and assessed in 2 course exams. Course Projects and Assignments
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Oral reports Course examinations (Midterm and Final) Book Review I Book Review II Book Review III
Course grade
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Oral reports (4@25pts ea) Course examinations (2 @ 100pts each) Book Review I Book Review II Book Review III
Points 100 200 100 100 100 Total Points 600
A=90% B=80% C=70% D=60% F=below 60% Make-Up Policy
Students will not be allowed to make-up exams or other required assignments in HIST 4350, unless there is a legitimate and verifiable reason – i.e. absence due to circumstances beyond your control. If you think you have a legitimate excuse (medical emergency, death in the immediate family, or approved university event), contact me as soon as possible. Make-ups will be given and allowances will be made only if you supply documentation supporting your reasons for absence . Be warned that I am very reluctant to allow make-ups, in fairness to others who do their work and complete it in on time, despite their adversities. Midterm — October 5. Last Day to Drop during Fall Semester. October 5th is the deadline for dropping a course without academic accountability. For additional information please see the University withdrawal policy. (Instructions for withdrawal: http://www.clayton.edu/registrar/withdrawal ) Special Need Students
It is the policy of CCSU to afford equal opportunity in education to all qualified students. Individuals with disabilities who need to request accommodations should co ntact the Disability Services Coordinator, Student Center 255, (678) 466-5445,
[email protected] Computer-Requirement: Each CCSU student is required to have ready access throughout the semester to a notebook computer that meets faculty-approved hardware and software requirements for the student's academic program. Students will sign a statement attesting to such access. For further information on CCSU's Official Notebook Computer Policy, please go to http://www.clayton.edu/hub/itpchoice/notebookcomputerpolicy Computer Skill Prerequisites: TM Able to use the Windows operating system TM
Able to use Microsoft Word word processing TM TM Able to send and receive e-mail using Outlook or Outlook Express Able to attach and retrieve attached files via email Able to use a Web browser. Computer Use in This Course: Student notebook computers will not be used in the classroom in this course. Computers will be required to access course materials, prepare written assignments, and to commu nicate with your instructor. Class Responsibilities and Attendance Requirements 1. Students must abide by all policies stipulated in the College Student Handbook. http://www.clayton.edu/Portals/46/docs/student-handbook.pdf
2. PLAGIARISM. Failure to do your own work or to pass off as your own work the work of another (plagiarism) will result in a grade of F for assignments where plagiarism occurs. NOTE: Copying material from the Internet without appropriate quotation marks and references is the same as copying material from a text or other written source. If you are at all confused about plagiarism please see me. 3. All written assignments are expected to be presented in proper written format and will be evaluated according to college level writing criteria. 4. University Attendance Policy. Students are expected to attend and participate in every class meeting. Instructors establish specific policies relating to absences in their courses and communicate these policies to the students through the course syllabi. Individual instructors, based upon the nature of the course, determine what effect excused and unexcused absences have in determining grades and upon students’ ability to remain enrolled in their courses. The university reserves the right to determine that excessive absences, whether justified or not, are sufficient cause for institutional withdrawals or failing grades.
5. As a seminar course, students are expected to attend all class meetings of History 4350. As well, students are responsible for any information or work missed as a result of an approved absence from class. Absences will affect grades for course ex perience contribution. 6. Students are responsible for all subject matter content assigned du ring the progress of the course. Class preparation and participation is expected and graded. 7. Students are expected to arrive for class on time and to remain until the end of the class period. (If you must leave early, please inform me prior to class and sit close to the door.) 8. University policy stipulates that it is not appropriate to bring children to class. If you have an emergency situation regarding child care, notify me before class. 9. Turn off phones, beepers, and other electronic devices which will disrupt class activities- before class starts. Tape recorders may be used to record classroom lectures and activities for the sole purpose of test and class preparation. 10. Incomplete grade form: http://www.clayton.edu/Portals/5/docs/Request_for_Incomplete_Grade_Form.doc 11. Writers studio information: http://www.clayton.edu/arts-sciences/english/writersstudio Disruption of the Learning Environment Behavior which disrupts the teaching – learning process during class activities will not be tolerated. While a variety of behaviors can be disruptive in a classroom setting, more serious examples include belligerent, abusive, profane, and/or threatening behavior. A student who fails to respond to reasonable faculty direction regarding classroom behavior and/or behavior while participating in classroom activities may be dismissed from class. A student who is dismissed is entitled to due process and will be afforded such rights as soon as possible following dismissal. If found in violation, a student may be administratively withdrawn and may receive a grade of WF. For additional information please see the following website: http://www.clayton.edu/Portals/5/DisruptiveClassroomBehavior.pdf Assignment Schedule: August 14-Dec 7
8/14 Introduction and Course overview. Read Steven Collini, What is history today? http://www.historytoday.com/stefan-collini/what-intellectual-history 8/16
Medieval Matrix Perry, Chapters 1,2; Kreis, Lectures 2,3. Pre-Modern world view-Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas Medieval matrix, Dante’s Divine Comedy
8/21
The Renaissance Perry, Ch2; Kreis, Lectures 4,5. Oral reports on
Petrarch (1304-1374) Erasmus (1466-1536) – Christian humanism, Praise of Folly. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
8/23
The Scientific Revolution Perry Ch 3; Kreis Lecture 6 Oral reports on Rene Descarte (1596-1650) Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) — Copernican Revolution, On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) — three laws of planetary motion Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Principia Mathematica
8/28
Reports continued.
8/30
Age of Enlightenment Perry, Ch 4 Book Report: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), The Prince Book Report:Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Leviathan
9/4 — HOLIDAY 9/6
Enlightenment continued Book Report: John Locke (1632-1704), Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Second Treatise on Civil Government Book Report: Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755), The Spirit of the Laws Oral Reports: Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), The New Science David Hume (1711-1776) Philosophical Skepticism Book Report:Adam Smith (1723-1790) The Wealth of Nations Book Report: Voltaire (1694-1778), Candid, The Portable Voltaire Oral Report: Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind.
9/11
Enlightenment characteristics: Reports continued
9/13
Enlightenment in America, Oral Report: Ben Franklin (1706-1790) Book Report:Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), The Portable Jefferson Oral Report:James Madison (1751-1836) Federalist, Number 10 and Numbe r 51
9/18
Romanticism and German Idealism Perry Ch 6, Characteristics of Romanticism
Oral reports on Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Philosophy and German idealism Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1803) Philosophy Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) Book Report: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1932), Sorrows of Werther, Faust Book Report: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), The Social Contract and Discourses, Emile Oral Reports: William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) William Blake (1757-1827) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) John Keats (1795-1821) George Gordon Noel Byron, “Lord Byron” (17881824) 9/20
Reports continued
9/25
Romanticism in America — Transcendentalism Perry Ch 6 Book Report: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Published Essays, “The Divinity School Address, “Self -Reliance”, “Nature”, “Politics” Book Report: Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond
9/27
First Exam
10/2
Age of Ideologies Perry Ch 7 Book Report: Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Reflections on the Revolution in France, Conservatism and the value of tradition, Liberalism and the value of the individual Political Economy, Adam Smith and liberal economics Oral Report: Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) Liberalism and Democracy Oral Reports: Saint Simon (1760-1825) Charles Fourier (1722-1837) Robert Owen (1771-1858) Rise of Modern Nationalism:French Nationalism, German Nationalism, Oral Reports Johann Gottfried Herder (1774-1803)
10/4
Reports continue
10/5
MIDTERM — LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW WITHOUT ACADEMIC PENALTY
10/9
Philosophies of Progress Perry Ch 6, 8 Oral reports on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Auguste Comte Book Report: Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
10/11 Reports continued 10/16 Perry Ch 8 Realism Positivism Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Evolution and the Crisis of Faith Book Report: Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) Book Report:William Graham Sumner 91840-1910), What the Social Classes Owe Each Other Oral report: Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), Frontier Thesis
10/18 Perry Ch 8 Marxism Characteristics Anarchism Marxism after Marx, Leninism British liberalism, Book Report, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), On Liberty Oral Report: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) Oral Report: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), The Man versus the State Feminism and Equality 10/23 Irrationalism Perry Ch 9 Oral report: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Book Report: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Civilization and Its Discontents
10/25 Sociological thought Oral reports on Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) Max Weber (1864-1920) 10/30 Irrationalism in political thinking Perry Ch 10 Characteristics of Volkish thought Racial theorists Anti-Semitism Christian anti-Semitism
Modern anti-Semitism 11/1
Rise of Fascism Oral report: Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) Characteristics of Fascism Hitler’s world view Totalitarianism, Stalin, Soviet style The Holocaust
116
Thought and Culture in the Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism Perry Ch 11 Book Report: Aldus Huxley, Brave New World Book Report: Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Book Report: Franz Kafka, The Trial, The Castle Book Report: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Book Report: George Orwell, Road to Wigam Pier, Animal Farm, 1984. Book Report: Arthur Koestler , Darkness at Noon
11/8
Pragmatism and Reaction Perry Ch 11 Oral reports: Charles Pierce, William James, John Dewey Progressivism, Oral Reports: Lester Frank Ward, Book Report: Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis Book Report: Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life Cultural Conservatism, Book Report: Fugitive-Agrarians, I’ll Take My St and
11/13 Perry Ch 11 Existentialism Book Report: Jean-Paul Sarte, Nausea 11/15 From Liberalism to Libertarianism Perry Ch 12 Book Report: Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life Book Report: F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom Book Report: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom 11/20 The Sixties in America The Frankfurt School, Book Report: Herbert Marcuse Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964). Book Report: Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture Book Report: Charles A. Reich, The Greening of America, 1970 11/27 Neo-conservatism
Book Report: Daniel Boorstin, The Americans (3 vols) Book Report: Norman Podhoretz, Breaking Ranks Book Report: Irving Kristal, Neoconservatism, The Autobiography of an Idea 11/29 (LAST DAY OF CLASS) From Modern to Post Modern Structuralism, Fernand de Saussure (1857-1913), Claude Levi-Strauss Poststructuralism and Deconstruction, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida 12/6
FINAL EXAM STARTS AT 12:30pm, Room T-215
