21L.002-2
Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity
Spring 2003
Topics
- Introduction. Machiavelli, excerpt from The Prince
- More: excerpt from Utopia Montaigne: Of Cannibals
- Montaigne: Of Repentance , Of Diversion , Of Conserving the Will
- Montaigne: excerpt from Of Experience Shakespeare, King Lear
- Shakespeare: King Lear
- Excerpts from Hobbes: Leviathan
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels , IV
- Jonathan Swift: (concluded)
- Rousseau: On the Origins of Inequality
- Rousseau: (concluded)
- Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey ; excerpts from The Prelude
- Wordsworth: (concluded)
- Immanuel Kant: excerpt from The Metaphysical Foundation of Morals
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen (continued)
- Balzac: Père Goriot
- Balzac (continued)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, excerpts from The Geneology of Morals
- Nietzsche, (concluded)
- George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
Readings
- 5 · Shakespeare. King Lear (continued)
- 6 · Shakespeare. King Lear (continuted)
- 9 · Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels , IV (continued)
- 11 · Rousseau. On the Origins of Inequality (continued)
- 13 · Wordsworth. Tintern Abbey; The Prelude (continued)
- 14 · Wordsworth. Tintern Abbey; The Prelude (continued)
- 17 · Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (continued)
- 18 · Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (continued)
- 20 · Balzac. Père Goriot (continued)
- 21 · Balzac. Père Goriot (continued)
- 22 · Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Geneology of Morals
- 23 · Nietzsche, Friedrich. Père Goriot (continued)
- 25 · Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara (continued)
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.