Rachel Fulton Brown
Department of History
The University of Chicago
Winter 2016
HISTORY OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION II
BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE FROM THE SEMINARY CO-OP
BOOKSTORE
Jean Jacques
Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762),
trans. Maurice Cranston [Penguin Books, 1968; ISBN 0-14-044201-4]
Mary Wollstonecraft,
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) [Penguin Books, 1993; ISBN:
0141441259]
Friedrich
Engels, The Condition of the Working
Class in England (1845 in German, 1887 in English) [Oxford University
Press, 2009; ISBN 0199555885]
John Stuart
Mill, On Liberty (1859), ed. Elizabeth Rapaport
[Hackett Publishers, 1978; ISBN 0915144433]
Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness (1899), ed. Paul
B. Armstrong [W.W. Norton & Co., 2005; ISBN 0393926361]
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (1958), trans.
Stuart Woolf [Touchstone, 1996; ISBN 0684826801]
ALL
OTHER READINGS ON RESERVE IN REGENSTEIN LIBRARY, IN COURSE DOCUMENTS THROUGH
CHALK, OR ON-LINE, AS INDICATED
Readings in
Western Civilization 7: The Old Regime and the French Revolution, ed. Keith
Michael Baker (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986) = RWC 7 [CB245.U640
1986, vol. 7]
Readings in
Western Civilization 8: Nineteenth-Century Europe. Liberalism and its Critics, ed. Jan Goldstein and John W. Boyer (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1986) = RWC 8 [CB245.U640 1986, vol. 8]
Readings in
Western Civilization 9: Twentieth Century Europe, ed. John W.
Boyer and Jan Goldstein (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986) = RWC 9
[CB245.U640 1986, vol. 9]
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1.
Careful study of the assigned readings. As one
of the main purposes of this course is to enable you to read different kinds of
texts from different historical periods and to develop your confidence in
approaching unfamiliar texts in the future, it is very important that you read
each of the assigned selections as carefully as possible before coming to class
each day. As you are reading, pay careful attention to what the author tells us
(explicitly or implicitly) about why he or she was writing and for whom. Why was
the author’s subject so important that he or she considered it worth writing
about? What does the author’s interest in the subject tell us about the
historical circumstances in which he or she was writing? Try, if you can, to
imagine a context in which the text you are reading would have been of vital
importance, so important that an author felt the need to commit its contents to
writing. What was the text that you are reading intended to do?
2.
Attendance and participation in class discussion
(20% of your final grade).
3.
Two textual analyses (6-8 pages, double-spaced,
each 20% of your final grade). First
paper due February 2 in class.
Second paper due March 1 in class.
4.
Final paper (8-10 pages, double-spaced, 40% of
your final grade). Paper due March 17
in the Chalk Dropbox.
READING AND DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENTS
January
5 The Civilizing Process
January 7 The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)
[especially pp. 49-88, 101-110, 129-30, 136-39, 149-54, 176-87]
January 12 Civil Society, Crime, and Commerce
Cesare Beccaria, An Essay on
Crimes and Punishments (1764), Introduction and chapters I-VIII, XII, XVI,
XIX, and XXVII-XXVIII, pp. 11-38, 46-47, 58-67, 73-76, and 93-108 [http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2193] [use Facsimile PDF]
Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the
History of Civil Society, 5th ed. (1782), part I, section I, pp. 1-16; part
IV, pp. 301-40; and part VI, section 5, pp. 437-55 [http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1428] [use Facsimile PDF]
January 14 Revolution
Emmanuel-Joseph
Sieyès, “What is the Third Estate?” (1789) [RWC 7, pp. 154-79]
Dispatches from
Paris (April-July 1789) [RWC 7, pp. 184-98]
Peasant
Grievances, Reports of Popular Unrest, Decrees of the National Assembly, The
“October Days” (1789) [RWC 7, pp. 208-37]
“Declaration of
the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” (1789) [RWC 7, pp. 237-39]
“The Civil
Constitution of the Clergy” (1790) [RWC 7, pp. 239-42]
Mary
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Author's
Introduction, Dedication to M. Talleyrand-Périgord,
chapters 1-2, chapter 3 ("...It is time to effect a revolution...rendered
weak, if not vicious?..."), chapter 4 ("That woman is naturally
weak...moved only a pace or two"; "...In the same strain have I
heard...never yet been placed [end of chapter]"); chapter 9, and chapter
13: section VI.
Petition of
Women of the Third Estate to the King [on Chalk]
Marie-Olympe de Gouges, “Declaration of the Rights of Woman”
(1791) [RWC 7, pp. 261-68]
The King’s
Trial [RWC 7, pp. 302-23]
“Make Terror
the Order of the Day” (5 September 1793) [RWC 7, pp. 342-53]
The Law of
Suspects (17 September 1793) [RWC 7, pp. 353-54]
The
Revolutionary Calendar [RWC 7, pp. 362-68]
Maximilien Robespierre, “Report on the Principles
of Political Morality” [RWC 7, pp. 368-84]
The
Festival of the Supreme Being (8 June 1794) [RWC 7, pp. 384-91]
Joseph
de Maistre, “Considerations on France” (1797) [RWC 7,
pp. 445-52]
Walter Scott,
“Dedicatory Epistle to the Rev. Dr. Dryasdust,
F.A.S,” Ivanhoe: A Romance (1819),
ed. Graham Tulloch (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000),
pp. 1-14 [on Chalk]
Thomas Carlyle,
“Signs of the Times” (1829) [http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carlyle/signs1.html]
Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843), Book 2, chapter 10: “Government”;
Book 4, chapter 4: “Captains of Industry” [http://www.historyhome.co.uk/readings/carlyle/contents.htm]
Samuel Smiles, “William Fairbairn” [RWC 8, pp.
82-92]
Two
Articles from The Economist
(1851) [RWC 8, pp. 92-100]
Friedrich
Engels, The Condition of the Working
Class in England (1845 in German,
1887 in English), pp. 1-35, 87-196, 281-302, 312-25
John Stuart
Mill, On Liberty (1859)
February 4 The
Essence of Christianity
Ludwig
Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity, trans. George Eliot (1854),
Introduction, pp. 1-32 [Hathi Trust] [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005676799;view=1up;seq=27]
Ernest Renan, The Life of Jesus, Preface (13th edition
1867) [RWC 8, pp. 336-51]
James Thomson,
“Jesus Christ Our Great Exemplar” (1874) [http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/thomson/1.html]
Contemporary
reviews of Heart of Darkness (ed.
Armstrong, pp. 307-12)
Nikolay Ivanovich Bukharin and Yevgeny Preobrazhensky, The
ABC of Communism (1922), trans. Eden and Cedar Paul (Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1966), Foreword, Introduction, chapters 3, 9,
11, and 15 (pp. 15-16, 19-25, 66-91, 220-27, 247-57, 331-36)
February 16 The
Love of Man and Woman
Alexandra Kollontai, "Make Way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working
Youth" (1923), pp. 276-92 [on Chalk]
________, "Three Generations" in Love of the Worker Bees (1923), trans. Cathy Porter, pp. 182-211
[on Chalk]
February 18 The New State
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
(1925) [RWC 9, pp. 191-218]
The Program of
the NSDAP (1928) [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/1708-ps.asp]
Benito
Mussolini, “The Doctrine of Fascism” (1932) [RWC 9, pp. 219-33]
Friedrich von
Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944)
[RWC 9, pp. 433-45]
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (1958)
February
25 NO CLASS Work on your papers
Sir
William Beveridge, “New Britain” (1942) [RWC 9, pp.
503-515]
Winston Churchill, "United States of
Europe Speech," September 19, 1946 [on Chal
Robert
Schuman, "The Schuman Declaration," May 9, 1950 [on Chalk]
Jean
Monnet, “A Red Letter Day for European Unity” (1953) [RWC 9, pp. 553-59]
The
Bad Godesberg Program (1959) [RWC 9, pp. 527-39]
March 3 A New
Church
Selected Constitutions and Declarations from the Second
Vatican Council (1962-1965): Gaudium et Spes, Dignitatis Humanae, and Nostra Aetate
[http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/index.htm]
March 8 What is European civilization?
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the
European Union (December 7, 2000) [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/default_en.htm]
Treaty
establishing a Constitution for Europe, Preamble (2004) [handout]
Pope Benedict
XVI, Address to the Representatives of Science at the University of Regensburg
(September 12, 2006) [http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg.html]
Pope Benedict
XVI, Address to the Collège des Bernardins,
Paris (September 12, 2008) [http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2008/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20080912_parigi-cultura_en.html]