BIWEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEKS OF APRIL 14 AND 21, 2014
THE EYE-OPENER OF THE BIWEEKLY: How can we make a revolution without firing squads? Lenin
KEY DATES:
On Friday, April 25 we will take a FIELD TRIP to some of the Chicago Art Galleries. We will leave at the beginning of fourth period on buses in front of Blaine and return at the end of the school day. Please bring a brown bag lunch.
On Thursday, April 24 we will have a test on Europe at the top of its game and Late Modernity. There will be two questions: 1.What defined Europe at the top of its game? 2. What is the good and the bad in the concept of Late Modernity? There will be no linkage section on this test.
On Friday, May 2, Brad Brickner will give his spring music talk.
The week of April 14
CLASS ONE: we will discuss sections 70`72. HOMEWORK: please read section 73 in Palmer and the sections on Irrationalism and Freud: A New View of Human Nature in the Late Modernity handout.
CLASS TWO: we will discuss the reading. HOMEWORK: please read the following sections in the Late Modernity handout: Social Though: Confronting the Irrational and the Complexities of Modern Society, The Modernist Movement, and Modern Physics.
CLASS THREE: we will discuss the reading. HOMEWORK: please read pages 595-612 in Palmer and pages 1-19 (up to Good and Bad versus Good and Evil) in Peter Fritzsche's Nietzsche and the Death of God.
CLASS FOUR: we will discuss the reading. HOMEWORK: finish the Fritzsche Introduction.
The week of April 21
CLASS ONE: we will discuss the reading. HOMEWORK: outline the first essay: What defined Europe at the top of its game?
CLASS TWO: we will discuss the first essay question. HOMEWORK: outline the second essay question: What is the good and the bad in the concept of Late Modernity?
CLASS THREE: We will discuss the second essay question. HOMEWORK: write the Late Modernity question at home.
CLASS FOUR: TEST on Europe at the top of its game and Late Modernity. HOMEWORK: read sections 77-79.
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