From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

New York Review of Books Syllabus (All Classes) 2025a

  

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New York Review of Books Syllabus
All Classes
Spring 2025

Robert André LaFleur                                              Office Hours:
Godfrey 106 (and MI 206)                                         Monday          12:00-13:30
363-2005                                                                     Wednesday   12:00-13:30
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 Three
(3 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Robert Darnton, "Free Spirit" 
(Reviewing Isaiah Berlin on ideas and history)

Week Four 
(10 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Keith Thomas, "The Great Fight Over the Enlightenment"
(Reviewing two works on the Enlightenment"

Week Five  
(17 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Ian Hacking, "The Archaeology of Foucault" 
(Reviewing Michel Foucault's Writings)

Week Six
(24 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Ian Hacking, "Winner Takes Less" 
(Reviewing Robert Axelrod on Cooperation)

Week Seven
(3 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Bernard Williams, "The End of Explanation?" 
(Reviewing Thomas Nagel's Work)

Week Ten
(24 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Alisdair MacIntyre, "Durkheim's Call to Order"
(Reviewing Steven Luke's on Durkheim)
 
Week Eleven
(31 March)
(Reviewing a work on feminist philosophy)

Week Twelve 
(7 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Anthony Quinton, "Spreading Hegel's Wings I"
(The first installment of a two-part review of writings on Hegel)
 
Week Thirteen
(14 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Anthony Quinton, "Spreading Hegel's Wings II"
(The second installment of a two-part review of writings on Hegel)

Week Fourteen
(21 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Robert Craft, "Telling Time" 
(Reviewing Jaqueline de Romilly the nature of time)

Week Fifteen
(28 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Samuel Freeman, "Why Be Good?" 
(Reviewing Derek Parfit's On What Matters)


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