Click here for the Course Syllabus.
Books to Buy
Students are not required to buy these texts, but they are responsible for having a copy for their sole use during the course. The Library provides a book exchange for students to pass on books they no longer need to other students, and is located in the library office. Please consider donating gently used textbooks. Identify any book to be dropped off for the swap so that they can be marked. Donation to the swap is not necessary to take books from it.
- August Comte
Introduction to Positive Philosophy
Hackett Publishing
978-0872200500
$11.00
Instructor Comment: Required - Friedrich Nietzche
The Anti-Christ
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
978-1547075539
$4.00
Instructor Comment: Required. (Any edition or publisher will be acceptable. I am providing you the published version I will be using in class). - Henri De Lubac
The Drama of Atheist Humanism
Ignatius Press
978-0898704433
$25.00
Instructor Comment: Required - Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
W. W. Norton & Company; The Standard edition
978-0393008319
$12.00
Instructor Comment: Required
Recommended Texts
Recommended texts are those from which not enough reading assignments are drawn to warrant asking students to provide their own copies or those that instructors think will enhance a student’s appreciation of the subject matter of the course. Any reading assignments drawn from these texts will be available on reserve.
- Sample Recommended Text Here
Electronic Reserve
Below are links to required or recommended texts available in an electronic format. For physical reserve items, please refer to the course syllabus.
Clinton, Materialism, Positivism, and the Politics of Modern Science
Darwin, Origin of Species, excerpts
Dostoevsky, Grand Inquisitor
Dostoevsky, Problem of Evil
Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity
Hegel, Philosophy of Right
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto
Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Marx, Theses on Feuerbach
Ratzinger on Belief and Truth
Rebard, The Origins of Modern Materialism
Slade, Ends and Purposes
Sowell, On Marxism, excerpts