You will find on this page both lists of readings for
each week, and also a digital copy of the day-by-day schedule. On
both segments of this page, you will also find direct links to online
sources. If faculty need to change the schedule for any reason, we
shall also note the changes here.
Readings - Week One
Inquiry:
Frances Fitzgerald: America Revised
Linda Simon: The Naked Source
Czeslaw Milosz: American Ignorance of War
Thomas Kuhn: The Route to Normal Science
Western Civilization Reader (hereafter
WCR)
Herodotus: History
The Return of Martin Guerre
Introduction & Chapter 1
Class Readers
Carl Becker: Everyman an Historian [R - Smith]
Eviatar Zerubavel: The Social Lens [R - General]
Peter Berger: Introduction: The Social Construction of Reality [R
- Smith]
Stephen Satris: Student Relativism [R - Smith]
Clifford Geertz: Thick Description [R - General]
Handouts (to be distributed in seminar)
Encounters with History Reading the Western Civilization Tapes
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Readings - Week Two
WCR
Eusebius of Caesarea :Tridecennial Oration
Procopius of Caesarea: Buildings
Class Readers
Plato: The Noble Lie [R - General] & Euthyphro [R - Smith]
Eileen Pagels: God the Father/God the Mother [R - Smith]
Genesis (King James): Creation [R - General]
Tertullian: Prescription Against Heretics [R - Smith]
Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals [R - Smith]
Selections from the Koran: On Adam, Eve and Creation [R - General]
Online Sources
Theodor Hertzl: The
Jewish State (Introduction)
Negib Azouri: Program
of the League of the Arab Fatherland
Minute
of conversation: Adolf Hitler and Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini
(extract)
UN Security
Council Resolution 242
Palestinian
National Charter
Print Reserve (in the Johnson Center Library)
Amos Oz, The Power and the Purpose
Rashid Khalidid, The Re-emergence of Palestinian Identity
Film
Michel Khlefi, Wedding in Galilee (1987) - view in cohort
Handouts
James Kavanagh, Ideology
Reading Wedding in Galilee
Mahmoud Darwish, Psalm 2
Dan Pagis, Twenty Years in the Valley
Fadwah Tuquan, Face Lost in the Wilderness
Yehuda Amichai, Ruhama Western Civilization Tapes The Middle Ages
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Readings - Week Three
WCR
Juan Ginés de Sépulveda: Démocrates alter justis belli causis apud
Indios Bartolomé de las Casas: In Defense of the Indians
Class Readers
Christopher Columbus:
Letter to King Ferdinand [R - Landsberg]
Stewart Schwartz: Victors and Vanquished (Introduction) [R - Landsberg]
Michel Foucault: The Order of Things [R - Landsberg] (See painting)
Mary Louise Pratt: Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
[R - Landsberg]
Coco Fusco: The Other History of Intercultural Performance [R - Landsberg]
Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands [R - General]
CIA Manual (extract) [R - Landsberg]
Louis Pérez, On Becoming Cuban [R - Landsberg]
Online Sources
Ronald Reagan: Address
to the Nation on United States Policy in Central America (May
9, 1984)
International Court of Justice (judgment vs. US: Section
XI: Application of the law to the facts, sections 1 - 5)
Purchased Handout
Ernesto Cardenal: Zero Hour
Video/documentary
Gomez-Pena: performance art (view in groups)
School of the Americas, School of the Assassins (view in cohort)
Western Civilization Tapes
The Reformations
The Turn of the Century: The New Imperialism and Mass Society
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Readings - Week Four
WCR
Alberti: On the Family
Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
The Declaration of the Rights of Women (1791)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Sigmund Freud: Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Class Readers
Roy Porter: Introduction to "Rewriting the Self" [R - Bernard]
Marilyn Frye: Oppression [R - Bernard]
Kate Bornstein: Which Outlaws? [R - General]
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Question of Sex [R - Bernard]
Mircea Eliade: The Problem [R - Bernard]
Kitty Tsui: Breaking Silence, Making Waves and Loving Ourselves [R
- Bernard]
Gish Jen: Who's Irish? [R - Bernard]
Print Reserve (in the Johnson Center Library)
Sigmund Freud: The Dissection of the Psychical Personality
The Return of Martin Guerre
Chapters 2 - 12
Online Readings
Li Liu: Who Were the Ancestors (retrieve from Expanded Academic Database,
via GMU Library web page)
An
ii Interview with Visiting Artist Bei Dao: Poet in exile
Film
Zhang Yimou: To Live (view in cohort)
Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo (view in cohort)
Handouts How to Read To Live
Western Civilization Tapes
The Renaissance
The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution
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Readings - Week Five
WCR
Ernest Gellner: Nationalism as a Product of Industrial Society
T. S. Eliot: The Hollow Men
Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
Tristan Tzara: Dada Manifesto
Class Reader
Ernest Renan: What is a Nation? [R - Scott]
Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities, pp. 5 - 7 [R - Scott]
Alexis de Toqueville: Influence of Democracy on the Family [R - Scott]
Franz Fanon: The Fact of Blackness [R - Scott]
Frederick Engels: The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and
the State [R - Scott]
Mary Wollstoncraft: (1792 extract) [R - Scott]
E. J. Graff: What makes a Family [R - Scott]
Gertrude Stein: "Picasso" [R - Scott]
Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
pp. 234-237 [R - Scott]
Web Sites
The Museum of African
Art
The United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
Online Sources
HD: from Trilogy
Johann Gottfried von Herder: Materials
for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, 1784
Handouts
Introduction to Performance Art
Western Civilization Tapes
Artistic and Cultural Modernism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Readings - Week Six
The Third Chimp
In Black and White, pp. 276 - 309
Maus
All of it!
WCR
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf
Jean Hans Mayer Amery: On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being
a Jew Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz
Class Readers
Kurt Johasson & Karin Bjornson: What is Genocide? & Gross Human Rights
Violations [R - Beltz]
Herbert Hirsch: Learning to Obey [R - Beltz]
John Berry & Carol Berry: Chronology [R - Beltz]
Alain Destexhe: The Hutu & the Tutsi [R - Beltz]
Timothy Longman: Christian Churches and the Genocide in Rwanda [R
- Beltz]
Web Sites
United States Memorial
Holocaust Museum
Institute for the
Study of Genocide
Online Sources
Social
Scientists' Definitions of Genocide
Articles
I-IX of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide
Charlotte Delbo: Roll Call, The Dummy
Paul Celan: DeathFugue
Thucydides: Revolution at Corcyra
Documentary
Mike Robinson et al.: The Triumph of Evil
Western Civilization Tapes
World War I, The Interwar Years, World War II & the Holocaust
Handout
Raimon Pannikkar, The Myth of Pluralism
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