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Part one. Beginning

Exercise: Your learning log

Exercise: Influential books

 

Global: Objective

 

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  1. Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species (1859) is a work that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. 19th century English science was closely tied to the Church of England. Darwin’s thoughts contradicted with Church beliefs that species were unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy and that humans were unique, unrelated to other animals.
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust (1808) Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature. It complicates the simple Christian moral of the original legend. It gathers together references from Christian, medieval, Roman, eastern, and Hellenic poetry, philosophy, and literature.
  3. George Orwell – 1984 (1949) –
  4. Hans Christian Andersen – Fairy Tales. His stories have inspired ballets, plays, both live-action and animated films. The fairy tales have become culturally embedded in the West’s collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include “The Little Mermaid”, “The Snow Queen”, “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Nightingale”.
  5. Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy (1308-1321) is an poem that is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance. The poem’s imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century.
  6. Plato – The Republic – Plato’s “Republic” is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and others, it questions what is a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge? “The Republic” also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as ‘guardians’ of the people.
  7. Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams
  8. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – The Communist Manifesto
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment
  10. Holy Bible
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky – Brothers Karamazov
  12. Boccaccio – Decameron
  13. Stephen Mitchell – Gilgamesh
  14. Herman Melville – Moby Dick
  15. Homer – the Odyssey
  16. Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
  17. Upanishads – The Holly Spirit of Vedas
  18. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
  19. Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince (1532) often claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. At that time it was in big conflict with catholic doctrines concerning how to consider politics and ethics. The controversy in his writings was his statements that in order to achieve glory and survival any immoral means can be justified.

Personal: Subjective

 

Exercise: Folding

Exercise: Sourcing books

Exercise: Working to a brief

Assignment one

Introducing yourself – ‘zine