Historical and Political Thought Syllabus

Spring 2025 Semester

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The Spring 2025 DS Bookshelf

Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan

John Locke
Second Treatise of Government

Niccolo Machiavelli
Selected Political Writings

Rousseau
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism

Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in
France

Douglass
The Portable Frederick Douglass

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America

Marx 
Selected Writings

Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals

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

Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Women

Spring 2025 Lectures: M 11:35-12:25p in HQL02

 
 

Fall 2024 Semester

View the Fall 2024 Historical and Political Thought Syllabus

The Fall 2024 DS Bookshelf

 

Herodotus
The History

Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War

Plato
Republic

Aristotle
The Politics

The New Oxford Annotated Bible

New Revised Standard version, 2018

Livy
The Rise of Rome: Books 1-5

Tacitus
Annals

Augustine
City of God

Aquinas
Treatise on Law

   

Fall 2024 Historical and Political Thought Lectures 

Mondays, 11:35-12:25 in HQ L02