Readings

Tuesday, January 7
: (no reading, first class).
Thursday, January 9
: Schelling, System: Foreword, Introduction, and Part One (pp. 1–33).
Tuesday, January 14
: Schelling, System: Part Two; Part Three, Introductory, I, and II, beginning of First Epoch (pp. 34–60).
Thursday, January 16
: Schelling, System: Part Three, II, Third Epoch; Part Four, beginning, up until (but not including) “Additional Remarks” (pp. 134-171).
Tuesday, January 21
: Schelling System: Part Four, “Additional Remarks” and beginning of Problem E; Part Four, IIIF; Part Five; Part Six (pp. 171–7 and 212–236).
Thursday, January 23
: Coleridge, The Friend (1818), Volume III, first part: Essays IV, V, and X (on the Principles of Method).
Tuesday, January 28
: 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).
Wednesday, January 29
: First short essay due.
Thursday, January 30
: 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).
Tuesday, February 4
: Emerson, “Self-Reliance” and “Friendship.”
Thursday, February 6
: Emerson, “The Poet.”
Tuesday, February 11
: no class due to strike.
Thursday, February 13
: Emerson, “Experience” (you may also want to read “Fate” and “Power.”, although those are no longer required readings.)
Tuesday, February 18
: Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit: Man vs. Men, Woman vs. Women.”
Thursday, February 20
: 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.”
Tuesday, February 25
: 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.”
Thursday, February 27
: Nietzsche, “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life,” Foreword and §§1–3, 5–6 (Untimely Meditations, pp. 59–77 and 83–95).
Tuesday, March 3
: 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).
Wednesday, March 4
: Second short essay due.
Thursday, March 5
: Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Part One (pp. 39–106).
Tuesday, March 10
: Nietzsche, Zarathustra, PartTwo (pp. 107–172).
Thursday, March 12
: Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Part Three (pp. 173–244).
Wednesday, March 18
: Final paper due.