Syllabi

Narratives of Modernity Nietzsche Max Weber — Rationalization and the Iron Cage E.J. Hobsbawm- Nations and Nationalism Merleau-Ponty– Humanism and Terror Ortega y Gasset —

the Copernican Turn, The Reformation, the Enlightenment Machiavelli Florentine Histories 1520-1525 The Prince 1513 The Discourses on Livy 1517 Castiglione The Book of the Courtier

In this course, we will cover how ancient politics transformed via various revolutions into modern thought patterns.

  Ideals of Citizenship Thucydides: “Pericles’s Funeral Oration” Tacitus Agricola  Consitutional Forms and their virtues Aristotle Politics Book I, 1-2; Book II, 1-2; Book III,