G53.3101.

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PoliticalTheoryandPoliticalPsychology
Thursdays2:00pm4:00pm.

ProfessorStephenHolmes
Office:506VanderbiltHall
Phone:2129986357
email:stephen.holmes@nyu.edu

RequiredBooks:

Aeschylus,Oresteia(Penguin)
Aristotle,TheArtofRhetoric(PenguinClassics),HughLawsonTancred
(Translator)
FrancisBacon,TheEssays(PenguinClassics),JohnPitcher(Editor)
JonElster,PoliticalPsychology(Cambridge)
JonElster,AlchemiesoftheMind:RationalityandtheEmotions(Cambridge)
WilliamIanMiller,EyeforanEye(Cambridge)
Nietzsche:OntheGenealogyofMoralityandOtherWritings:RevisedStudent
Edition(CambridgeTextsintheHistoryofPoliticalThought)

September6:Introduction;forfirstclass,studentsareexpectedtohaveread
Elster,WhyPoliticalPsychology,pp.134inhisPoliticalPsychology.

September13,Elster,EmotionsbeforePsychology,inAlchemiesoftheMind,pp.
48138.

September20,Elster,SocialEmotionsinHistoricalContext,inAlchemiesofthe
Mind,pp.139238.

September27,Elster,RationalityandtheEmotions,inAlchemiesoftheMind,
pp.239331.

October4,FrancisBacon,Essays,OfRevenge,OfSimulationand
Dissimulation,OfEnvy,OfLove,OfGreatPlace,OfBoldness,Of
SeditionsandTroubles,OfSuperstition,OfEmpire,OfDelay,Of
Cunning,OfDispatch,OfSeemingWise,OfSuspicion,OfAmbition,
OfNatureinMen,OfCustomandEducation,OfFortune,OfFaction,
OfPraise,OfVainglory,OfHonourandReputation,OfAnger,

October11,Nietzsche,GenealogyofMorals,Preface;PartI,PartII

October18,Nietzsche,GenealogyofMorals,PartIII

October25,Elster,PoliticalPsychology,pp.101191.

November1,Aristotle,Rhetoric,BookII

November18,Aeschylus,Oresteia

November15,Miller,EyeforanEye,pp.ix108.

November29,Miller,EyeforanEye,pp.109202

December6,Elster,TransmutationandMisrepresentation,andCoda,in
AlchemiesoftheMind,pp.332417.

Theseminarrequirementwillbea25pageresearchpaperonatopictobeagreed
uponwiththeinstructor.