Listed in: First Year Seminar, as FYSE-119
Thomas L. Dumm (Section 01)
This course explores a series of ideas from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries that have substantially changed the way people think about humanity in the Western world. Each idea is closely associated with an author. While from year to year the ideas will change, for 2021 we will closely read and write about, Karl Marx and Frederic Engels The Communist Manifesto, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” and “Self-Reliance”, Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, Sigmund Freud’s The Ego and the Id, Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem, and Judith Butler’s Precarious Life. Students are also asked to purchase a copy of Strunk and White, The Elements of Style.
Fall semester. Professor Dumm.
Section 01
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CLAR 100
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CLAR 100
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo | Vintage | Friedrich Nietzsche ; translated by Walter Kaufmann | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
The Souls of Black Folk | Dover Publications | W.E.B. DuBois | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
Civilization and Its Discontents | Oxford University Press | Sigmond Freud | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil | Penguin | Hannah Arendt | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
Precarious life : the powers of mourning and violence | Verso | Judith Butler | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
The Elements of Style | Harper Collins | William Strunk | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.