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Online Texts for Program Readings: Fall Semester

This guide provides links to full-text resources and audio resources available for program readings.

2024 Fall Semester Reading List

Date Reading Online Resources
August 22 Tolstoi: War and Peace

Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude (Project Gutenberg)

Read by Neville Jason (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

August 26 Tolstoi: War and Peace (see August 22 links)
August 29

Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit

Introduction (73-89)

Trans. A. V. Miller (University of Massachusetts at Boston)

September 2

Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit

Sense Certainty, Perception (90-116)

(see August 29 links)
September 5

Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit

The Truth of Self-Certainty (177 only);

Lordship and Bondage (178-196)

(see August 29 links)
September 9

Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit

Stoicism and Skepticism (197-206)

(see August 29 links)
September 12

Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit

Unhappy Consciousness (207-230);

Reason (231-232)

(see August 29 links)
September 16

Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit

Conscience and The Beautiful Soul (632-658)

(see August 29 links)
September 19

Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit

The Beautiful Soul and Forgiveness (659-671);

Absolute Knowing (806-808)

(see August 29 links)
September 23

Tocqueville: Democracy in America

(see Fall Semester Appendix)

Trans. Henry Reeve (Project Gutenberg)

Trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Internet Archive)

Trans. James T. Schleifer (Online Library of Liberty)

Read by Peter Wickham (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

September 26

Tocqueville: Democracy in America

(see Fall Semester Appendix)

(see September 23 links)
September 30

Tocqueville: Democracy in America

(see Fall Semester Appendix)

(see September 23 links)

 

October 3

Marx and Engels: The German Ideology, all of Part One;

“Theses on Feuerbach"

The German Ideology

"Theses on Feuerbach" 

 

October 7 Marx Engels: Capital (selections: see Fall Semester Appendix)

Marxist Internet Archives

October 10

Marx: Capital (selections: see Fall Semester Appendix) and The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Chapters “Estranged Labor” and “Private Property and Communism” (Prometheus edition, pages 69–84, 100-114)

Capital (see October 7 links)

The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

October 14

Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

beginning through Problema I

Trans. Howard  V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (JSTOR)

Read by Mark Meadows (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

October 17

Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments

Chapters I-III (including Appendix)

Trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (JSTOR) 

October 21

Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments

Chapter IV-end (Moral)

(see October 17 links)
October 24 – December 12 (preceptorials)