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- Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History - Main
- Lecture 1: Modern European Intellectual History - An Introduction
- Renaissance Resources
- Peter Abelard, 1079-1142
- Peter Abelard, Sic et Non
- World War One Resources
- Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939
- Nietzsche Resources
- Lecture 2: The Medieval World View (1)
- Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
(1781)
- Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
- St. Thomas Aquinas on the Web
- Goliardic Verse
- Lecture 3: The Medieval World View (2)
- 4th Lateran Council (1215): Canon 3 - On Heresy
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Lecture 4: The Medieval Synthesis and the Discovery of Man: The Renaissance
- Giorgio Vasari on the Concept of a "Renaissance" (1550)
- Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527
- Renaissance Humanism
- The Printing Press
- Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man
- Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (excerpt)
- Lecture 5: The Medieval Synthesis Under
Attack: Savonarola and the Protestant Reformation
- Girolamo Savonarola, 1452-1498
- Savonarola, "This will be
your final destruction"
- Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, 1517
- Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536
- Lecture 6: The Scientific Revolution, 1543-1642 (1)
- Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies (1543)
- Galileo, The Starry Messenger (1610)
- Cardinal Bellarmine's Letter to Foscarini
(1615)
- Lecture 7: The Scientific Revolution,
1642-1730 (2)
- Isaac Newton, 1642-1727
- Preface to Isaac Newton's
Principia (1687)
- Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662
- Lecture 8: The New Intellectual Order: Man, Nature and Society
- Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600
- Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592
- Rene Descartes, 1596-1650
- Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679
- John Locke, 1632-1704
- Lecture 9: The Triumph of Science and the 18th Century Philosophe
Enlightenment Resources
- Lecture 10: The Vision of Human Progress: Vico, Gibbon and Condorcet
Giambattista Vico, The New Science
(1725)
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire (1776-1788)
Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the
Human Mind (1795)
- Lecture 11: The Origins of the French
Revolution
French Revolution Resources
- Lecture 12: The French Revolution - Moderate Stage, 1789-1792
- The
Cahiers de Doléances (1789)
- The Oath of the Tennis Court (June
20, 1789)
- The Fall of the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
- The Decree of August 4, 1789
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and the
Citizen (August 1789)
- The October Days (1789)
- The Flight to Varennes (June 20, 1791)
- The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
(July 12, 1790)
- Lecture 13: The French Revolution, The Radical Stage, 1792-1794
- "Reply to the Impertinent
Question: What is a Sans-Culotte?" (April 1793)
- The Journee of August 10, 1792
- The Trial and Execution of Louis XVI
- Maximilien Robespierre, 1758-1794
- Robespierre's Republic of Virtue
- Durand de Maillane on the Ninth of
Thermidor (July 28, 1794)
- Lecture 14: The Language of Politics:
England and the French Revolution
- Richard Price, 1723-1791
- Edmund Burke, 1729-1797
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the
Revolution in France (1790)
- A Note on Protestant Dissent and the Dissenters
- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797
- Joseph
Priestley, 1733-1804
- Thomas Paine, 1737-1809
- William Godwin, 1756-1836
- Lecture 15: Europe and the Superior Being: Napoleon
- Napoleon Resources
- Napoleon's Proclamation to His Troops in
Italy (March-April 1796)
- The 18th Brumaire of the Year
VIII (November 10, 1799)
- The Code Napoleon (1804)
The Continental System
- Lecture 16: The Romantic Era
- Toward a Definition of Romanticism
- Lecture 17: The Origins of the Industrial
Revolution in England
Industrial Revolution Resources
- Lecture 18: The Social Consequences of the Industrial Revolution --
currently editing
- Lecture 19: The French Revolution and the Socialist Tradition: Early French
Communists (1)
- Rousseau,
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men (1755)
- Morelly,
Code of Nature (1755)
- Babeuf's Defense (From the Trial at the
Vendome, Feb-May, 1797)
- Lecture 20: The French Revolution and the Socialist Tradition: English Democratic
Socialists (2)
- Lecture 21: The Utopian Socialists: Charles Fourier (1)
- Marx and Engels on the Utopian
Socialists
- Charles Fourier, 1772-1837 -- Selections from his Writings
- Lecture 22: The Utopian Socialists: Robert Owen and Saint-Simon (2)
- Robert Owen, 1771-1858
- Robert Owen's
A New View of Society (1813)
- Lecture 23: The Age of Ideologies (1): General Introduction
- Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
- Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770-1831
- Lecture 22: The Age of Ideologies (2):
Reflections on Karl Marx
- Karl Marx, 1818-1883
- Lecture 23: The Age of Ideologies (3): The World of Auguste Comte
- Auguste Comte, 1798-1857
- French Comteans: Claude Bernard, Hippolyte Taine and Ernst Renan
- William Robertson, 1721-1793
- Auguste Comte,
Course of Positive Philosophy (1830)
- Lecture 25: The Age of Ideologies (4): Charles Darwin and Evolutionary Theory
-- currently editing
- Lecture 27: The Revolt Against the Western Intellectual Tradition: Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche,
Human, All Too Human (1879)
- Nietzsche Resources
- Charles Darwin, 1809-1882
- Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855
- Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age (1846)
- Stefan Zweig on Nietzsche
- Nietzsche, Dionysus and Apollo
- Richard Wagner, 1813-1883
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Parable of the Madman
(1882)
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