User:Visviva/Shimer College reading list

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Humanities 1: Art And Music

 * Josef Albers, Interaction of Color
 * Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting
 * Grosvenor Cooper, Learning to Listen
 * Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
 * Plato, Ion
 * Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cezanne
 * Leo Steinberg, Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper
 * Joshua C. Taylor, Learning to Look
 * Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
 * Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists

Humanities 2: Poetry, Drama And Fiction

 * The Norton Anthology of Poetry
 * Aristotle, Poetics
 * Erich Auerbach, Odysseus’ Scar
 * Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
 * Homer, Odyssey
 * Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Antigone
 * Shakespeare, Hamlet
 * Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Humanities 3: Philosophy And Theology

 * Anselm, Proslogion
 * Aquinas, Summa Theologica
 * Aristotle, Metaphysics
 * Augustine, Confessions
 * The Bible: Genesis, Gospel of John, I Corinthians
 * Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
 * Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
 * John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding
 * Blaise Pascal, Pensées
 * Plato, Apology, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium
 * Teresa of Ávila, Autobiography

Humanities 4: Modern Currents In The Humanities

 * Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity
 * Martin Buber, I and Thou
 * Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
 * Franz Kafka, The Trial
 * Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
 * Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics

Social Sciences 1: Society, Culture, And Personality

 * Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture
 * Nancy Chodorow, Family Structure and Feminine Personality
 * W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk
 * Emile Durkheim, Suicide
 * Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
 * Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice
 * William James, Psychology: The Briefer Course
 * Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
 * Jean Piaget, Moral Feelings and Judgments
 * Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
 * Max Weber, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Social Sciences 2: The Western Political Tradition

 * Aristotle, Politics, Nicomachean Ethics
 * Frederick Douglass, Story of My Life
 * Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
 * John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government
 * Machiavelli, The Prince
 * Plato, Republic
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Emile
 * Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women
 * U.S. Declaration of Independence
 * U.S. Constitution
 * Federalist Papers

Social Sciences 3: Modern Theories Of Society And Politics

 * Arendt, The Human Condition
 * Beauvoir, The Second Sex
 * Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
 * Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Philosophy of Right
 * Marshall, Principles of Economics
 * Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Manifesto of the Communist Party
 * Mill, On Liberty
 * Sarte, Essays on Existentialism
 * Smith, Wealth of Nations
 * Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Social Sciences 4: Social Perspectives And Social Action

 * Emile Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method
 * Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality
 * Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
 * Clifford Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures
 * Sandra Harding, ed., Feminism and Methodology
 * Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities
 * Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia
 * Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority
 * Max Weber, Objectivity in the Social Sciences

Natural Sciences 1: Laws And Models In Chemistry

 * Aristotle, Physics
 * Bacon, New Organon
 * Cannizzaro, Sketch of a Course in Chemical Philosophy
 * Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
 * Pascal, Scientific Treatises
 * The Presocratics
 * Selections from Boyle, Priestley, Lavoisier, Thompson, Dalton, Avogadro, Joule, Faraday, Mendeleev, Curie

Natural Sciences 2: Evolution, Genetics, Animal Behavior

 * Aristotle, On the Soul, On the Parts of Animals
 * Sergei Chetverikov, On Certain Aspects of the Evolutionary Process
 * Georges Cuvier, Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Globe
 * Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, Descent of Man
 * Jane Goodall, Chimpanzees of Gombe
 * G. H. Hardy, Hardy-Weinberg Law
 * Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy
 * Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression
 * Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridization

Natural Sciences 3: The Nature Of Light

 * Descartes, Optics
 * Galileo, Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
 * Huygens, Treatise on Light
 * Newton, Opticks, Principia
 * Selections from DuFay, Franklin, Faraday, Hertz, Maxwell, Oersted, Young

Natural Sciences 4: Modern Scientific Revolutions

 * Carroll, Endless Forms Most Beautiful
 * Dyson, Origins of Life
 * Einstein, Relativity, "Photoelectric Effect"
 * Feynman, QED, Character of Physical Law
 * Gamow, Thirty Years that Shook Physics
 * Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy
 * Schrödinger, What is Life?, "Four Lectures on Wave Mechanics"
 * Selectrions from Crick, Davisson, Millikan, Spermann

Integrative Studies 2: Foundations Of Mathematics And Logic

 * Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, Prior Analytics, On Interpretation
 * Descartes, Discourse on the Method
 * Einstein, Relativity
 * Euclid, Elements
 * Lobachevsky, "Theory of Parallel Lines"
 * Nagel and Newman, Gödel’s Proof
 * Newton, Principia
 * Venn, On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical Representation of Propositions and Reasonings

Integrative Studies 5: History And Philosophy Of Western Civilization

 * Epic of Gilgamesh
 * Aeschylus, Oresteia
 * Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
 * Aristotle, On the Heavens
 * Augustine, City of God
 * The Bible, Genesis, The Gospels
 * Dante, Inferno
 * Herodotus, Persian Wars
 * Hildegard of Bingen
 * Homer, Iliad
 * Plato, Republic
 * Ptolemy, Almagest
 * Sappho, Poetry
 * Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
 * Virgil, Aeneid

Integrative Studies 6: History And Philosophy Of Western Civilization

 * Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
 * Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
 * Galileo, On the Heavens
 * Goethe, Faust
 * Hume, Treatise on Human Nature
 * Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysic of Morals
 * Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
 * Luther, Three Treatises
 * Milton, Paradise Lost
 * Pisan, Treasure of the City of Ladies
 * Shakespeare, Tempest