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Reading Assignments for Fall 2007, Spring 2008
WESTERN CIVILIZATION II
HWC 115 & HWC 205

Textbook:  Trulove, Woelfel, Auerbach, and Buller, Patterns in Western Civilization, Volume II, Fourth Edition

  1. Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method   (Hackett)

  2. John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government   (Harlan Davidson, Croft Classics)

  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality   (Hackett)

  4. Declaration of Independence in Patterns, pp. 96-97
    U.S. Constitution in Patterns, pp. 98-109
    Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, The Federalist Papers 6, 10, and 51, in Patterns, pp.110-118
    George Mason, “Objections to the Constitution of the Government formed by the Convention, November, 1787” in Patterns, pp. 119-120

  5. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein   (Dover)

  6. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty   (Hackett)

  7. Charles Darwin, selections from Origin of Species and Descent of Man   and
    T.H. Huxley, “Evolution and Ethics,” in Patterns, pp. 186-198

  8. Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto   (Bedford) or
    e-text option: http://www.anu.edu/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground   (Vintage)

  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols   (Hackett)

  11. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk   (Dover)

  12. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion   (Norton)

  13. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own  (Harcourt)

  14. Gerda Klein, All But My Life  (Hill and Wang)

 Supplemental reading:  Appendix in Patterns:
        Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, pp.334-335
        Declaration of the Rights of Woman, September 1791,  pp. 337-339
        The Sadler Report, pp. 341-349
        Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, pp. 351-353