5 days down of the 14 day compressed UNR class, The Modern World. 9 more days to go! Midterm exam is next week. This is wild!
We began with Hamlet as he was perhaps the first modern character, struggling with doing what he was supposed to do and wanting to think for himself and investigate.
Hamlet (Modern, Editor’s Version)
I also watched Kenneth Branagh’s film, Hamlet. At 4 hours in length, it is the complete dialogue. That’s why I chose this version. I wanted to deepen my understanding. I didn’t look at the cast names and was continually surprised by the big name actors and actresses in the film. Made my heart so happy when Robin Williams walked into a scene!
Modern History Sourcebook: Martin Luther (1483–1546): Address To The Nobility of the German Nation, 1520
The Three Walls Of The Romanists
Nicolaus Copernicus
On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)
Chapter 6: On the Immensity of the Heavens in Relation to the Magnitude of the Earth
Galileo Galilei, Excerpt from The Sidereal Messenger (1610)
THE SIDEREAL MESSENGER
The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature
Francis Bacon
The Essays of Montaigne
Of Cannibals
Letter to King Ferdinand of Spain, describing the results of the first voyage
Christopher Columbus (1493)
Mary Wortley Montagu
LETTERS (1716-1718)
Charles de Secondat, Baron deMontesquieu from THE SPIRIT OF LAWS (1748)
Olaudah Equiano
from THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, OR GUSTAVUS VASSA, THE AFRICAN (1789)
Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
CHAPTER XIII:
OF THE NATURAL CONDITION OF MANKIND AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY AND MISERY
Modern History Sourcebook John Locke: Two Treatises of Government, 1690
CHAPTER II: Of the State of Nature
Adam Smith
For Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
IMMANUEL KANT
An Answer to the Question: “What is Enlightenment?”
Konigsberg, Prussia, 30th September, 1784.
Emmanuel Sieyes
from WHAT Is THE THIRD ESTATE?(1789)
The Black Jacobins
TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE AND THE SAN DOMINGO REVOLUTION SECOND EDITION, REVISED
C.L.R. JAMES
Declaration of the Rights of Man – 1789
National Assembly
Olympe de Gouges, “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Woman-Citizen” (1791)
Mary Wollstonecraft
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein – reading for next week
For extra credit, we were to find a meme that ties in with our readings from last week. The printing press changed the world. It’s unbelievable that half the population seem to want a return to pre-Modernism and pre-Enlightenment.