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New York Review of Books Syllabus
All Classes
All Classes
Spring 2024
Robert André LaFleur Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 206 Monday 13:30-16:00
363-2005
363-2005
lafleur@beloit.edu ...or by appointment (just send
me an email message)
We will be reading .pdf essays from the archives of the New York Review of Books (hereafter NYRB). I will send the entire sequence near the beginning of the term. Please store them in a place (computer file, backup disk, etc.)that will make it convenient to access each week
Week One
(24 January)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingMary Beard, "Isn't it Funny?"
(Reviewing Works on the Philosophy of Humor)
Robert Darnton, "Free Spirit"
Ian Hacking, "The Archaeology of Foucault"
Week Two
(29 January)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingQuentin Skinner, "The End of Philosophy?"
(Reviewing Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature)
Week Three
(5 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingRobert Darnton, "Free Spirit"
(Reviewing Isaiah Berlin on ideas and history)
Week Four
(12 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingKeith Thomas, "The Great Fight Over the Enlightenment"
(Reviewing two works on the Enlightenment"Week Five
(19 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading(19 February)
Ian Hacking, "The Archaeology of Foucault"
(Reviewing Michel Foucault's Writings)
Ian Hacking, "Winner Takes Less"
Bernard Williams, "The End of Explanation?"
Samuel Freeman, "Why Be Good?"
Week Six
(26 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading(26 February)
Ian Hacking, "Winner Takes Less"
(Reviewing Robert Axelrod on Cooperation)
Week Seven
(4 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingBernard Williams, "The End of Explanation?"
(Reviewing Thomas Nagel's Work)
Mark Lilla, "The Riddle of Walter Benjamin"
Alisdair MacIntyre, "Durkheim's Call to Order"
Week Nine
(20 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingMark Lilla, "The Riddle of Walter Benjamin"
(Reviewing Benjamin's Correspondence)
Week Ten
(25 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingAlisdair MacIntyre, "Durkheim's Call to Order"
(Reviewing Steven Luke's on Durkheim)
Week Twelve
Anthony Quinton, "Spreading Hegel's Wings I"
Week Eleven
(1 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Martha Nussbaum, "Feminists and Philosophy"
Martha Nussbaum, "Feminists and Philosophy"
(Reviewing a work on feminist philosophy)
Week Twelve
(8 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingAnthony Quinton, "Spreading Hegel's Wings I"
(The first installment of a two-part review of writings on Hegel)
Week Thirteen
(15 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingAnthony Quinton, "Spreading Hegel's Wings II"
(The second installment of a two-part review of writings on Hegel)
Week Fourteen
(22 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingRobert Craft, "Telling Time"
(Reviewing Jaqueline de Romilly the nature of time)Week Fifteen
(29 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingSamuel Freeman, "Why Be Good?"
(Reviewing Derek Parfit's On What Matters)
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