Weekly Readings
(Readings with a * are suggested only.)
(Plan your reading so that in general you have read the materials before they are discussed in class.)
(A Matter of Time is the manuscript by Lahr & Pastor.)
First Week: Let's Talk about Time
A Matter of Time: Unit I
*Empires of Time: Pp. 3-13
Second Week: The Birth of Time
A Matter of Time: Unit II
Theogony
Enuma Elish: Pp. 1-115
The Book of Genesis: Pp. 1-68
Empires of Time: Pp. 325-341*Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya: Pp. 0-13 and 35-90
Third Week: Listen to the Greeks
No class Monday, January 15: MLK Day. Meet Thurs. 12-12:50 (x-hour).
A Matter of Time: Unit III
Oedipus Rex
Timaeus: Pp. 51-54
Fourth Week: Reckoning with Time: Philosophers and Mathematicians
A Matter of Time: Unit IV
Hear no evil - speak no evil - Zeno evil
Death and the Compass
*Looking Awry: Pp. 0-9
Fifth Week: A World of Clocks
A Matter of Time: Unit V
St. Augustine: Book XI
Physics IV: Sections 10-14
The Role of Music in Galileo's Experiments
Sixth Week: Harnessing Time
No class Friday, February 9: Winter Carnival.
A Matter of Time: Unit VI
Richard the II: Pp. 152-155
The Sonnets: Pp. 82-87 / 106-7 / 114-15 / 138-39
Seventh Week: A World of Reason
A Matter of Time: Unit VII
Discourse: Pp. 91-110
Principles: Pp. 310-337
*Clocks and the Cosmos: Pp. 65-101
Eighth Week: On Relativity and Gato Time
A Matter of Time: Unit VIII
Eternal Recurrence: Pp. 249-262
The Case of the Wolf Man
L'Horloge
The Bells
Circular Ruins
The South
*Empires of Time: Pp. 13-37
*Time: An Essay: Pp. 93-141
*Le Voyage
Ninth Week: Time and the Fourth Dimension
A Matter of Time: Unit IX
The Night Face Up
The Quantum Physics of Time Travel
100 Years of Solitude
Tenth Week: Past, Present, and Elsewhere
A Matter of Time: Unit X
100 Years of Solitude
*The Two Cultures: Pp. 1-51
*The Bible Code
*Rethinking Anthropology: "Two Essays Concerning the Symbolic Representation of Time"