Historical and Political Thought Syllabus

Spring 2021 Semester

Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan

John Locke
Second Treatise of Government

Niccolo Machiavelli
Selected Political Writings

Rousseau
The Discourses and other
political writings

Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism

Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in
France

Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America

Karl Marx
Selected Writings

Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals

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

01 Thompson, Norma MW 2:30pm-3:45pm

02 Sorkin, David MW 2:30pm-3:45pm

03 Semmel, Stuart MW 1-2:15pm

04 Kreiner, Timothy TTh 2:30pm-3:45pm

05 Barasch, Benjamin MW 4-5:15pm

06 Renaud, Terence TTh 1-2:15pm

07 Schillinger, Dan MW 9-10:15am

Herodotus
The History

Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War

Plato
The Trial and Death of Socrates

Aristotle
The Politics

Livy
The Rise of Rome: Books 1-5

Tacitus
Annals

Augustine
City of God

Aquinas
Treatise on Law

1. Steven Smith TTH 9-10:15

2. Paul Freedman TTH 1-2:15

3. Norma Thompson MW 2:30-3:45

4. Terence Renaud MW 1-2.15

5. Stuart Semmel MW 1-2:15

6. Isaac Nakhimovsky TTH 1-2:15

7. Daniel Schillinger MW 2:30-3:45