Warhol,
no title, 1967
Goldsworthy,
Lightning
Tree (2005)
Gehry, Guggenheim Museum,
Bilbao, Spain, 1997.
Serra,
Tilted
Arc (1981-89)
Glass, Einstein
on the Beach (1976)
Chuck
Close, Self
Portrait (1997)
Chuck Close, Self
Portrait (detail) (1997)
Key
Questions
- Is the developing concept of the
European Union a glimpse of the future in Europe? A fusion of
European ideas and concepts? A fruitless experiment? A culmination of
the Western tradition?
- Is the Western Tradition heading
inexorably toward a democratic, enlightened socio-political system?
- To what extent do the Balkans
provide an example of Europe's future? An exception to? An expression
of intractable problems of just the repercussions of post-imperialism?
- Why is it not surprising that
Europe is generally more committed to the idea of the United Nations,
less religiously focused, and socially and politically
liberal-democratic at the end of the 20th century?
- Is Turkey European? If so
or if not, what does it then mean to be European (i.e. Western)?
Present
Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious
Present
Art:
Present
Literature:
Present
Music:
Primary
Sources:
Primary
Sources:
Primary
Sources:
Primary
Sources:
Politics:
- Ellul, "The Betrayal of the West"
(1978)
- Krautz, "Violence and Xenophobia in
Germany" (1993)
- Tolstaya, "Boris the First"
(1994); "The Way They Live Now"
(1997)"The Making of Mr. Putin"
(2000)
- Rieff, "The Enemy Is Not Human"
(1995)
- Arbotov, "The Negative Consequence of
“Shock Therapy” Capitalism" (1997)
- Kapuściński, "Herodotus
and the Art of Noticing" (2003)
- Friedman, "Globalization as an
International System" (2002)
- Foster, "The New Geopolitics of Empire"
(2006)
- Fukuyama, The “End of History” Revisited
(2007)
- Kurtz, I
and My Brother Against My Cousin. Weekly
Standard 04/14/2008
Science:
- Brooks, "The Age of Darwin"
NY Times 4-15-07
- Pinker
"A
Biological Understanding of Human Nature"(2002) ; "The Moral Instinct"
(2008)
- Orr, A Passion for Evolution:
on Richard Dawkins (2004)
- Wilson,
on Existential Conservatism: "Religious Belief Itself Is an
Adaptation"
- Panek, on Dark Matter and Dark Energy,
NY Times Magazine (2007)
- The Edge World Question 2007 Center: "What are you optimistic about?"
- Barr, "Does Quantum Physics Make it Easier to Believe in God?" (July 2012)
Philosophy:
- Fish, French
Theory in America, NY Times
(April 2008)
- Notes on Rawls, A Theory of Justice
(1971)
- Byrne, Knowing Right and Wrong: Is
Morality A Natural Phenomenon (March
2007)
- Younkins, "Thomas Sowell's Constrained Vision of Man and Society" (2001)
- Nagel, "The Core of ‘Mind and Cosmos"’ (2013)
- Cass R. Sunstein , How Do We Know What’s Moral? NYRB APRIL 24, 2014
- Rauschenberg,
Canyon,
(1959)
- Lichtenstein,
Hopeless, (1963)
- Tony Smith, Die (1965)
- Warhol,
no title, (1967)
- Rothenberg, Tattoo,(1979)
- Marden,
The Muses (1993)
- Viola, The
Crossing, (1996)
- Gehry, Guggenheim Museum,
Bilbao, Spain, (1997)
- Golsdworthy, Herd of Arches (1994)
- Serra,
Intersection II (1992); St. John's Rotary Arc (1975-80)
- 20th
c. Greek Painting
Russia Since the Fall:
- Remnick, Dead Souls NYRB (1991)
- Tolstaya, Boris the First NYRB (1994)
- Ash, Ten Years After NYRB (1999)
- Tolstaya, The Way They Live Now NYRB
(1997)
- Tolstaya, The Making of Mr. Putin NYRB
(2000)
- Pipes, Flight From Freedom (2004)
- Cohen, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From
Stalinism to the New Cold War (2009) Chapter 6:Gorbachev's Lost Legacies
- Cotrell, The Emperor Vladimir NYRB (2006)
- Kovalev, "Why Putin Wins" NYRB (2007)
- Merridale’s Haunted by Stalin NYRB
(2009)
- Anna Politkovskaya, Putin’s Russia: Life in a
Failing Democracy (Metropolitan, 2005)
- Knight, Who Killed Anna Politkovskaya? NYRB
(2008)
- Amid Protests, Putin Returns to Presidency in Russia (NY
Times 5-7-12)
- Applebaum, Vladimir’s Tale NYRB (2012)
- Remnick, Watching the Eclipse The New Yorker,
August 11 & 18, 2014
- Judah, Ukraine: What Putin Has Won NYRB
(October 2014)
- Ignatieff, The New World Disorder NYRB (Sept.
2014)
- Applebaum, How He and His Cronies Stole Russia NYRB
(December 2014)
Theatre:
- Fo, from Mistero Buffo
(1969); Accidental Death of an
Anarchist (1970)
- Beckett, Cascando & Words and
Music (1979)
- Soyinka, Death and the
King's Horseman (1975)
- Foreman, Wake Up, Mr. Sleepy! Your
Unconscious Mind is Dead (2007)
Poetry:
- Milosz, "Encounter" (1936); "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" (1943) "Esse" (1954) "So Little" (1969)
- First Time Round. Zen retreat diaries by Gary Snyder
- Hughes,
Crow's
Fall (1971)
- Heaney, "The Tollund Man"
(1972); "Casualty";
"The Haw Lantern"
(1975); "Lightenings viii"
(1991)
- Brodsky, "Seven Strophes"
(1987)
- Walcott, "Sea Grapes"
(1986) Omeros (1990)
- Yevtushenko Poetry
- The Chernobyl Poems of Lyubov Sirota
Stories:
- Borges, "Funes the Victorious
"from Ficciones (1942);“Borges and I”
(1964)
- Gordimer, "Loot"
(1999) (video)
Novels:
- Grass, from The Tin Drum (1961)
- Kundera, The
Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Kertesz, from Fatelessness
(1975)
- The Lennon Diary 1969. Diary of the future, by John Lennon. Facsimile pocket diary for 1969, written November 1968.
- Yoko Ono & John Lennon.
- Reich, Violin Phase, Music
for 18 Musicians (1967); Drumming Part I
(1971)
- Glass and Wilson, Einstein on the Beach
(1976)
- Adams, Chamber
Symphony (1992)
- Cage Mureau (1972);
4'33
|
- Glass, A Secret Solo,
(1977)
Building (excerpt from Einstein on the Beach) (1975) - Feldman, For Stefan Wolpe
(1986); Palais de Mari
(1986)
- Zorn, Carny
(1989)
- The
Bowed Piano Ensemble, Entrada
(10:04) "Interview"
(48:49)
- Crumb,
A Little Suite for Christmas,
A.D. 1979 (1980); Apparition (1979)
; An Idyll for the Misbegotten
(Images III) (1986)
1452 Luddites and Techies: Dealing with change in the year 2000
1514 The resistance movement: a look at ongoing evolution
Present
Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious
Present
Art:
Present
Literature:
Present
Music:
Secondary
Sources:
Secondary
Sources:
Secondary
Sources:
Secondary
Sources:
- Judt, The 'Problem of Evil' in
Postwar Europe 2-14-2008; “What Have We
Learned, If Anything?” 5-1-2008 NY
Review
- on John Rawls' Theory of Justice
- Review of Fukuyama, "After
the Neocons" (Sept. 2006)
- Shavit, The Road to Democracy in the
Arab World (Fall 2006)
- Luban, John Yoo's Defense of Torture
NYRB 3-15-07
- Wolin, "Foucault the Neohumanist?"
(2006)
- International Relations in
the 20th Century
- The Balkans in the 20th c. (BBC)
- Historical Atlas of the 20th
Century
- "Natural Talent"
on Andy Goldworthy's Landscape Art (Guardian 3-11-07)
- Richard Serra New Yorker (2002)
- Richard Serra Slide Show (Spate)
- Lead Shot, a description of a sculptural project by Richard Serra.
- 1140 Tents: a very old and very modern architecture
- Art Hoax Unites Europe in Dismay (2009)
- Ignatieff, The Danger of A World Without Enemies: Lemkin's Word (2001)
- Aspen Magazine (1966)
- Als, "The Islander":
a profile of Derek Walcott (2004)
- Harold
Pinter's Nobel prize acceptance speech
- Peter Greenaway, .4 American Composers:
(video) Featuring John Cage, Meredith Monk, Robert
Ashley and Philip Glass.
- American Mavericks:
Development of Avant-Garde Music in America: Show #11:
From Moog to Mark II to MIDI to Max ; Show #13:
Between Rock and a Hard Place
- Margaret Leng Tan talks about John Cage and 4'33; (12:37s) and she prepares the piano John Cage Style
- 2595 4'33", John Cage's prank or penetrating insight into sound and silence
Present
Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious
Present
Art:
Present Literature:
Present
Music:
Lesson
Plans and Presentations:
Lesson
Plans and Presentations:
Lesson
Plans and Presentations:
Lesson
Plans and Presentations: