Enlightenment Readings for HUM 2052

Readings for Spring '05 are in red.

Swift: A Modest Proposal

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.html

Bernard Mandeville: The Grumbling Hive

http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0014-01.php

This link is to a much clearer text than the Rutgers link I had up earlier. The relevant matter is linked to as "The Preface and the Poem", about half way down this page. The other material, especially the Introduction, may also be helpful.

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations

Lualdi contains the first twelve paragraphs of Book Four, Chapter II: `Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of such Goods as can be produced at Home'. A clearly laid out online text of the whole book is available at

http://www.adamsmith.org/smith/won-intro.htm

Voltaire: Candide

http://www.literature.org/authors/voltaire/candide/

Rousseau: Confessions and Emile

Norton has short extracts from each of the first six books. A full translation may be found at:

http://www.swan.ac.uk/poli/texts/rousseau/confcon.htm

Norton has extracts from Book Five of Emile. The whole work may be found at:

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/pedagogies/rousseau/Contents2.html


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