Historical and Political Thought Syllabus

Spring 2023 Semester

Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan

John Locke
Second Treatise of Government

Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince

Rousseau
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism

Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in
France

Mill
On Liberty and other essays

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America

Marx and Engels
The Communist Manifesto

Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals

W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk

David Bromwich TTh 9:00-10:15

Tim Kreiner MW 9:00-10:15

Lucia Rubinelli MW 2:30-3:45

Dan Schillinger TTh 2:30-3:45

Sophie Schweiger MW 9:00-10:15

Stuart Semmel TTh 11:35-12:50

Norma Thompson MW 9:00-10:15

Lectures: Wednesdays 11:35am-12:25pm

Herodotus
The History

Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War

Plato
Republic

Aristotle
The Politics

The Hebrew Bible

Oxford Revised Standard version, 2018

Livy
The Rise of Rome: Books 1-5

Tacitus
Annals

Augustine
City of God

Aquinas
Treatise on Law

Benjamin Barasch

Paul Freedman

Mordechai Levy-Eichel

Isaac Nakhimovsky

Timothy Robinson

Steven Smith

Norma Thompson

Lectures: Wednesdays 11:35am-12:25pm, HQ L02