{"id":1044,"date":"2016-07-14T22:43:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/?page_id=1044"},"modified":"2016-08-30T17:27:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:27:40","slug":"syllabus-the-human-condition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/syllabus-the-human-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus: The Human Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE HUMAN CONDITION<\/strong> <strong>(1982-85), directed by Prof. Keith Nelson (History).<\/strong> Knowledge and Choice; The Middle Class in the Nineteenth Century; Violence: domestic, racial, imperial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Liberty_Leading_the_People_(28th_July_1830)_-_WGA6177.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1203\" src=\"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Liberty_Leading_the_People.png\" alt=\"Liberty_Leading_the_People\" width=\"728\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Liberty_Leading_the_People.png 728w, https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Liberty_Leading_the_People-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Liberty_Leading_the_People-700x577.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Knowledge and Choice: <\/u>Professors Gerasimos Santas, Linda Georgianna, James Chiampi, Kenneth Bailes.\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nTexts included Augustine: <em>Confessions; <\/em>Dante: <em>Inferno; <\/em>Machiavelli: <em>The Prince; <\/em>Descartes: <em>Meditations; <\/em>Pirandello: <em>Six Characters in Search of an Author; <\/em>Herr: <em>Dispatches; <\/em>Fitzgerald: <em>Fire in the Lake; <\/em>Einstein and Freud: \u201cWhy War?\u201d letters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The Middle Class in the Nineteenth Century: <\/u>Professors Keith Nelson, Meredith Lee, Guy Sircello.\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nTexts included Hobsbawm: <em>Age of Revolution; <\/em>Burke: <em>Reflections on the Revolution in France;<\/em> the French Revolution \u201cDeclaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen\u201d<em>;<\/em> Goethe: <em>Sorrows of Young Werther; <\/em>Balzac: <em>Eug\u00e9nie Grandet;<\/em> Ibsen:<em> A Doll\u2019s House<\/em>; Zola: <em>Germinal; <\/em>Marx:<em> Communist<\/em> <em>Manifesto; <\/em>Engels: <em>Condition of the Working Class in England.<\/em><strong><em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Violence: Domestic, Racial, Imperial. <\/u>Professors Spencer Olin, Ermanno Bencivenga, John Rowe, Michael P. Clark.\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nTexts included Kubrick: <em>A Clockwork Orange; <\/em>Hobbes: <em>Leviathan; <\/em>Rousseau: <em>Discourse on Inequality; <\/em>\u00a0Lorenz: <em>On Aggression; <\/em>Twain: <em>Huckleberry Finn; <\/em>Conrad: <em>Heart of Darkness; <\/em>Walker: <em>The Color Purple; <\/em>Tuttle: <em>Race Riot; <\/em>Gandhi: \u201cNon-Violence\u201d; Brecher: <em>Strike!; <\/em>Kafka: <em>Metamorphosis; <\/em>Olin and Nelson: <em>Why War?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HUMAN CONDITION (1982-85), directed by Prof. Keith Nelson (History). Knowledge and Choice; The Middle Class in the Nineteenth Century; Violence: domestic, racial, imperial. Knowledge and Choice: Professors Gerasimos Santas, Linda Georgianna, James Chiampi, Kenneth Bailes.\u00a0 Texts included Augustine: Confessions; Dante: Inferno; Machiavelli: The Prince; Descartes: Meditations; Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}