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Readings:
Bob Dylan, Chronicle, Vol 1
David Hollinger, Charles Capper, The American Intellectual Tradition, Vol II, 1870-Present
Allen Ginsberg, Howl For Carl Solomon
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Week One:
Ideas Matter: Introduction to the Discipline of Intellectual History.
Reading: Chomsky, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” pp 501-509; [F.J. Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History, pp. 61-68; Frederick Douglass, https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self,” pp. 55-59.
Week Two
Man, God, and Science
Reading: Asa Grey, “Review of Origin of the Species,” pp. 6-12;
Briggs, “Selection From Biblical Study,” pp. 37-42;
William James, “The Will to Believe,” pp. 70-82;
Jane Addams, “The
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