User:Visviva/Shimer College reading list
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Humanities 1: Art And Music[edit]
- Josef Albers, Interaction of Color
- Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting
- Grosvenor Cooper, Learning to Listen
- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
- Plato, Ion
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cezanne
- Leo Steinberg, Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper
- Joshua C. Taylor, Learning to Look
- Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
- Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists
Humanities 2: Poetry, Drama And Fiction[edit]
- The Norton Anthology of Poetry
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Erich Auerbach, Odysseus’ Scar
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
- Homer, Odyssey
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Antigone
- Shakespeare, Hamlet
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Humanities 3: Philosophy And Theology[edit]
- Anselm, Proslogion
- Aquinas, Summa Theologica
- Aristotle, Metaphysics
- Augustine, Confessions
- The Bible: Genesis, Gospel of John, I Corinthians
- Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
- Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
- John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées
- Plato, Apology, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium
- Teresa of Ávila, Autobiography
Humanities 4: Modern Currents In The Humanities[edit]
- Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity
- Martin Buber, I and Thou
- Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
- Franz Kafka, The Trial
- Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
- Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics
Social Sciences 1: Society, Culture, And Personality[edit]
- Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture
- Nancy Chodorow, Family Structure and Feminine Personality
- W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk
- Emile Durkheim, Suicide
- Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
- Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice
- William James, Psychology: The Briefer Course
- Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
- Jean Piaget, Moral Feelings and Judgments
- Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Max Weber, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Social Sciences 2: The Western Political Tradition[edit]
- Aristotle, Politics, Nicomachean Ethics
- Frederick Douglass, Story of My Life
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Plato, Republic
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Emile
- Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women
- U.S. Declaration of Independence
- U.S. Constitution
- Federalist Papers
Social Sciences 3: Modern Theories Of Society And Politics[edit]
- Arendt, The Human Condition
- Beauvoir, The Second Sex
- Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
- Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Philosophy of Right
- Marshall, Principles of Economics
- Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Mill, On Liberty
- Sarte, Essays on Existentialism
- Smith, Wealth of Nations
- Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Social Sciences 4: Social Perspectives And Social Action[edit]
- Emile Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method
- Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality
- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Clifford Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures
- Sandra Harding, ed., Feminism and Methodology
- Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia
- Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority
- Max Weber, Objectivity in the Social Sciences
Natural Sciences 1: Laws And Models In Chemistry[edit]
- Aristotle, Physics
- Bacon, New Organon
- Cannizzaro, Sketch of a Course in Chemical Philosophy
- Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
- Pascal, Scientific Treatises
- The Presocratics
- Selections from Boyle, Priestley, Lavoisier, Thompson, Dalton, Avogadro, Joule, Faraday, Mendeleev, Curie
Natural Sciences 2: Evolution, Genetics, Animal Behavior[edit]
- Aristotle, On the Soul, On the Parts of Animals
- Sergei Chetverikov, On Certain Aspects of the Evolutionary Process
- Georges Cuvier, Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Globe
- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, Descent of Man
- Jane Goodall, Chimpanzees of Gombe
- G. H. Hardy, Hardy-Weinberg Law
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy
- Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression
- Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridization
Natural Sciences 3: The Nature Of Light[edit]
- Descartes, Optics
- Galileo, Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
- Huygens, Treatise on Light
- Newton, Opticks, Principia
- Selections from DuFay, Franklin, Faraday, Hertz, Maxwell, Oersted, Young
Natural Sciences 4: Modern Scientific Revolutions[edit]
- Carroll, Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- Dyson, Origins of Life
- Einstein, Relativity, "Photoelectric Effect"
- Feynman, QED, Character of Physical Law
- Gamow, Thirty Years that Shook Physics
- Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy
- Schrödinger, What is Life?, "Four Lectures on Wave Mechanics"
- Selectrions from Crick, Davisson, Millikan, Spermann
Integrative Studies 2: Foundations Of Mathematics And Logic[edit]
- Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, Prior Analytics, On Interpretation
- Descartes, Discourse on the Method
- Einstein, Relativity
- Euclid, Elements
- Lobachevsky, "Theory of Parallel Lines"
- Nagel and Newman, Gödel’s Proof
- Newton, Principia
- Venn, On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical Representation of Propositions and Reasonings
Integrative Studies 5: History And Philosophy Of Western Civilization[edit]
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Aeschylus, Oresteia
- Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
- Aristotle, On the Heavens
- Augustine, City of God
- The Bible, Genesis, The Gospels
- Dante, Inferno
- Herodotus, Persian Wars
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Homer, Iliad
- Plato, Republic
- Ptolemy, Almagest
- Sappho, Poetry
- Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
- Virgil, Aeneid
Integrative Studies 6: History And Philosophy Of Western Civilization[edit]
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- Galileo, On the Heavens
- Goethe, Faust
- Hume, Treatise on Human Nature
- Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysic of Morals
- Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
- Luther, Three Treatises
- Milton, Paradise Lost
- Pisan, Treasure of the City of Ladies
- Shakespeare, Tempest