Revolutions and Revolutionaries is a fast-paced, panoramic survey of the big questions, political systems, technological advances, and cultural movements that have swept over the Western world during the last 500 years. The method of this course is interdisciplinary, involving history, literature, philosophy, and the arts. We will consider historical documents, philosophical treatises, and literary works, as well as films, paintings and music. Plenary lectures (in which all Cultural Heritage students will meet) will be given by professors of literature, history, and philosophy. When all this is over, you will be able to say, with some assurance, how the humanities relate to each other, and, most importantly, how we became who we are.

Instructor: Dr. Pannapacker

Class Meetings: MWF 2:00-2:50.

Class Location: 8th Street, Room 260.

Plenary Lectures: Thursdays, 12:00-12:50.

Plenary Location: Graves 102, Winants Auditorium.

September 1 (Wednesday): Welcome, introduction, course overview, and basic interpretive methods. Class photographs will be taken.

UNIT I: REFORMATION AND REVOLUTION

September 2 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: Reformation and Revolution (Prof. Gibbs). Hillerbrand, Reformation Readings, 37-53 (course pack); Perry, 183-187. Attendance at plenary sessions is mandatory; several exam questions will be based on plenary lectures.

September 3 (Friday) : Basic interpretive methods applied to Martin Luther. Continue Hillerbrand, Reformation Readings, 76-103 (course pack). Partial screening of Martin Luther (PBS 2003). Additional class photographs will be taken.

September 6 (Monday): Peasants' War and Radical Reformation. Read “The Twelve Articles” and Luther’s “Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants” (course pack #2 and #3); Perry, “Radical Reformation,” 191-192. Face-book distributed.

September 8 (Wednesday): Response to Reformation. Read Erasmus, “Cyclops, or the Gospel Bearer” (course packet #4); Perry, 172-180.

UNIT II: THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

September 9 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: The Scientific Revolution (Prof. Gibbs). Perry, 223-233; Rogers, 33-35; 42-43.

September 10 (Friday): Counter-Revolution/Catholic Reformation. Read Perry, 192-195.

September 13 (Monday): Galileo and the Inquisition. Read Rogers, 36-42; Review Perry 226-228. Partial Screening: The Medici (PBS, 2004).

September 15 (Wednesday): Montaigne and Skepticism. Read Montaigne (course pack): Essay 27 (132-135), Essay 32 (159-161), Essay 47 (205-209), Essay 14 (462-463); Perry, 203-204.

September 16 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: Descartes’ “Revolution in Philosophy” (Prof. Perovitch). Read Perry, 230-231; Rogers, 44-46; Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, 1-17.

September 17 (Friday): Descartes. Read Perry, 233-234; Read Descartes, 24-35, 42-47.

September 20 (Monday): Review Session for Exam #1. Organize your notes and bring your questions.

September 22 (Wednesday): Exam #1.

UNIT III: MILTON AND THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR: A CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION

September 23 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: The English Civil War (Prof. Petit). Read James I, “True Law of Free Monarchies” (course pack); Milton, “Tenure of Kings and Magistrates” (course pack); Perry, 198-199, 207-209.

September 24 (Friday): Political Thought: Locke, Hobbes, and others. Read Perry, 235-236; Rogers, 8-11, 55-56, 74-84.

September 27 (Monday): Read Milton, Paradise Lost, Books I, II, III.

September 29 (Wednesday), NO CLASS, CRITICAL ISSUES SYMPOSIUM (I’ll be speaking).

September 30 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: “‘Sympathy for the Devil’: Milton's Paradise Lost and the Problem of Evil” (Prof. Pannapacker). Read Paradise Lost, Books IX, X, XII.

UNIT IV: THE ENLIGHTENMENT: AN INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION

October 1 (Friday): The American Enlightenment. Screening: Benjamin Franklin (PBS, 2002).

October 4 (Monday): The Self-Made Man and Capitalist Culture. Read Franklin, “The Way to Wealth” (course pack #8); Rogers 92-95.

October 6 (Wednesday): American Independence and the Postcolonial Condition. Read “Declaration of Independence” (course pack); partial screening of Liberty: The American Revolution (PBS 1998).

October 7 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: The Enlightenment and Voltaire’s Candide (Professors Petit and Gibbs). Rogers, 55-56, 64-69, 74-78, 80-84; Perry, 233-246; Candide, 1-39.

October 9 (Friday): Finish Candide; Partial Screening: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974).

October 11 (Monday): Voltaire and the Philosophes. Read Perry, 237-244; Rogers, 64-73.

October 13 (Wednesday): Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism, and Women’s Rights. Read Perry, 300-307; Rogers 84-90.

October 14 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: Kant’s Copernican Revolution (Prof. Perovich). Perry, 297-298; Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, 7-44.

October 15 (Friday): Kant. Read Kant, Grounding, 44-62. Special Meetings Scheduled.

October 18 (Monday): NO CLASS: FALL BREAK.

October 20 (Wednesday): NO CLASS; SPECIAL MEETINGS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SCHEDULED THEM.

UNIT V: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, ROMANTICISM, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

October 21 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: The Roots of the French Revolution (Prof. Gibbs). Rogers, 99-112; Perry, 252-258.

October 22 (Friday): NO CLASS: PANNAPACKER SPEAKING AT DUKE UNIVERITY. PLEASE KEEP UP WITH READING; WE'LL COVER IT ON FRIDAY. The French Revolution: The Moderate Stage. Read Perry, 258-261; Rogers, 80-84, 112-121.

October 25 (Monday): The French Revolution: The Reign of Terror. Read Perry, 261-267; Rogers, 125-143. Read Burke, “Reflections on the Revolution in France” (course pack).

October 27 (Wednesday): Napoleon and the European Reaction to the French Empire. Read Perry, 267-275; Rogers, 163-171. Partial screening of Napoleon (PBS 2001).

October 28 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: “‘The Shock of the New’: The Romantic Revolution, Science, and Frankenstein (Prof. Pannapacker). Read Rogers 171-181; Perry 294-297; Read first half of Frankenstein.

October 29 (Friday): Finish Frankenstein. Stowe Handout today.

November 1 (Monday): Review Session for Exam #2. Organize your notes and bring your questions.

November 3 (Wednesday): Exam #2.

November 4 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: Slavery, Sentimentalism, and Frederick Douglass (Prof. Pannapacker). Read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

November 5 (Friday): Sentimentalism and Reform. Read Stowe, excerpt from Uncle Tom’s Cabin (handout).

UNIT VI: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

November 8 (Monday): Industrialization and Marxism. Read Perry, 278-285, 336-340; Rogers, 208-221, 232-242.

November 10 (Wednesday): Realism and Darwinism. Read “Life in the Iron Mills” (course pack). Read Perry, 330-336.

November 11 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: Gender and the Industrial Revolution (Prof. Petit). Review Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills.”

November 12 (Friday): NO CLASS: PANNAPACKER AT NEWBERRY LIBRARY PROGRAM MEETING.

November 15 (Monday): Nietzsche. Read Perry, 375-379; Rogers, 309-316. Read Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 5-10, 21-36.

November 17 (Wednesday): More Nietzsche: Read "Reconnaissance Raids of an Untimely Man," sections 5, 7-11, 14, 18, 20, 26, 33-38, 45, 48.

November 18 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: “Nietzsche’s Revolt against Tradition” (Prof. Perovitch). Review Nietzsche readings.

UNIT VII: REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN THE 20TH CENTURY

November 19 (Friday): Imperialism. Read Perry 362-366, 368-373. Rogers, 255-267, 270-279.

November 22 (Monday): World War I. Read Rogers, 316-343; Perry, 398-414.

November 24 (Wednesday): Film Screening: The Great War (PBS, 1996; Part 1). Read articles on Women and WWI (Course pack #14).

November 25 (Thursday): NO CLASS; THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.

November 26 (Friday): NO CLASS; THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.

November 29 (Monday): Treaty of Versailles and the Russian Revolution. Read Perry, 414-427; Rogers, 343-358; 360-366, 369-371. Partial screening of The Great War (PBS 1996) on the Treaty of Versailles.

December 1 (Wednesday): The Rise of Fascism. Read Perry, 446-452; Rogers, 426-434, 449-450; Partial screening of Triumph of the Will (1935).

December 2 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: Existentialism (Prof. Perovich). Read Perry, 461-464; “Mario and the Magician” (course pack #15).

December 3 (Friday): Modernism in Art, Architecture, and Literature—and Anti-Semitism. Perry, 454-458, 359-362; Partial screening of Degenerate Art (PBS 1993).

December 6 (Monday): The Holocaust and the Nuclear Age. Read Rogers, 481-490, 493-500; 510-520; Perry, 605-615. Screening of Night and Fog (1956), and documentary footage of Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped (1996).

December 8 (Wednesday): The Cold War, Terrorism, the Environment, and what next? Read Perry, 490-496, 504-509, 516-524; Rogers, 550-563, 595-599. Partial screening of Koyaanisqatsi (1983).

December 9 (Thursday): Plenary lecture: The Civil Rights Movement (Prof. Petit). Read Martin Luther King, "Letter from the Birmingham City Jail” (course pack).

December 10 (Friday): Last Class; final exam review session. SIRs administered.

December 13-17: Final Cumulative Exam. See Registrar’s exam schedule.