Readings

Thursday, September 23

: (no reading, ﬁrst class). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Tuesday, September 28

Thursday, September 30

: Schelling, System: Foreword, Introduction, and Part One (pp. 1–33). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Monday, October 4

: Schelling, System: Part Two; Part Three, Introductory, I, and II, beginning of First Epoch (pp. 34–60) (at the usual class time, via Zoom). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Tuesday, October 5

: Schelling, System: Part Three, II, Third Epoch, §IV and General Note; Part Four, beginning, up until (but not including) “Additional Remarks” (pp. 148-171). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Thursday, October 7

: Schelling System: Part Four, “Additional Remarks” and beginning of Problem E; Part Four, IIIF; Part Five; Part Six (pp. 171–7 and 212–236). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Tuesday, October 12

: Coleridge, The Friend (1818), Volume III, ﬁrst part: Essays IV–VII (on the Principles of Method). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Thursday, October 14

: Coleridge, The Friend (1818), Volume III, ﬁrst part: Essay XI (on the Principles of Method); Aids to Reﬂection (1825): Advertisement; Preface; Introductory Aphorisms I–XI, XX–XXIV, XXX–XXXII; Prudential Aphorisms VI–VII; Reﬂections Respecting Morality, ﬁrst part (through “lays claim to permanence only under the form of duty”); Moral and Religious Aphorisms, beginning of Aphorism VI (through “any positive Notion or Insight”), and Aphorisms XXXVI and XLIII (pp. iii–xii, 1–6, 13–18, 26–7, 35–7, 51–6, 66–74, 111–12, 118–19). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Monday, October 18

: First short essay due.

Tuesday, October 19

: Coleridge, Aids to Reﬂection (1825): Elements of Religious Philosophy; Aphorisms on That Which Is Indeed Spiritual Religion, Aphorisms VI and VIII, beginning of Comment to Aphorism X (through “yet it is the condition, the sine quá non” of a Free-will”), and Aphorisms XI and XV (pp. 129–40, 188–9, 200–228, 256–62, 287–8, 294–6). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Thursday, October 21

: Emerson, “Self-Reliance.” (Lecture on YouTube.)

Tuesday, October 26

: Emerson, “The Poet.” (Lecture on YouTube.)

Thursday, October 28

: Emerson, “Experience.” (Lecture on YouTube.)

Tuesday, November 2

: Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit: Man vs. Men, Woman vs. Women.” (Lecture on YouTube.)

Thursday, November 4

: Fuller, “St. Valentine’s Day,” “American Literature” (beginning, through “on a great scale,” p. 126), “The Fourth of July,” “The Rich Man,” “The Poor Man,” “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain.” (Lecture on YouTube.)

Tuesday, November 9

: Fuller, “A Drive through the Country near Boston”; “Festus” (beginning through p. 237, “extracts,” and p. 254, “The quire is almost ﬁlled,” through end); “Sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts.” (Lecture on YouTube.)

Thursday, November 11

: No class (Veterans Day)

Tuesday, November 16

: Nietzsche, “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life,” Foreword and §§1–3, 5–6 (Untimely Meditations, pp. 59–77 and 83–95). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Thursday, November 18

: Nietzsche, “Schopenhauer as Educator” §§1–2 (pp. 127–36); §§4–5 (pp. 146–161); from §6, the description of the scholar (p. 169, beginning “Science is related to wisdom”—through p. 174, ending “cannot be found in him either.”); §8 (pp. 182–94). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Monday, November 22

: Second short essay due.

Tuesday, November 23

: Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Part One (pp. 39–106). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Thursday, November 25

: No class (Thanksgiving)

Tuesday, November 30

: Nietzsche, Zarathustra, PartTwo (pp. 107–172). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Thursday, December 2

: Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Part Three (pp. 173–244). (Lecture on YouTube.)

Wednesday, December 8

: Final paper due.