Sessions 1 and 2:
1. (9/17) Internationalization, Memory, Negativity
Wordsworth, “There was a Boy,” Prelude 5; originally Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Drowned Man episode, Prelude 5 Tintern Abbey
Additional Readings: Essays on Epitaphs
Hegel: Phenomenology, paras 11-21, 31-3 (Preface)
748-53 (Revealed Religion)
803-8 (Absolute knowing)
Philosophy of History, “Classification of Historic Data” (see Xerox)
Hölderlin: Der gefesselte Strom
2. (9/24) Time, Nature, Immediacy
Wordsworth, Prelude XII, the “Spots of Time, “esp. Death of Father
Prelude XIV, Ascent of Snowden
Additional Readings: Continue in Hegel, to complete excerpted sections.
Add: “Sense Certainty” and “Perception” in Phenomenology, paras 90–131
Note: For the sake of convenience, paragraph number indications are to A. V. Miller's translation of the Phenomenology, available on course shelf in Coop.
Readings in modern criticism should wait till after first session. Suggestions will be made on 9/17 or later.