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  The Complete Syllabus: “The Future”

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  Following a tradition that started with this Summer's "Food" issue, we've assembled all the fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and plays that produced this Fall's readings. We encourage you to read wider, deeper and at your leisure.
  

  The Ancient World
  Agamemnon by Aeschylus
  Phaedrus by Plato
  Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
  The Bible
  The Confessions by St. Augustine
  The Histories by Herodotus
  The Interpretation of Dreams by Artemidorus
  “Alexander the Quack Profit” by Lucian
  Ab Urbe Condita by Livy
  “On the Shortness of Life” by Seneca
  The Odes by Horace
  The Fragments of Menander
  Roman Antiquities by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
  Zhuangzi by Zhuangzi
  The Fragments of Sappho
  The Bhagavadgita

  The Medieval World: 480-1400
  The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
  The Qur’an
  The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
  “The Intemperance of Human Life” Yamanoue Okura
  Scivias by Hildegard of Bingen

  The Renaissance: 1400-1600
  Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
  Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

  The 18th Century
  The Life of Johnson by James Boswell
  Common Sense by Thomas Paine
  The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  “The Telegraph” by Charles Dibdin
  “Freedom is Lost” by Jean-Paul Marat
  The Letters of Benjamin Franklin
  “To the Fates” by Friedrich Hölderin

  The 19th Century
  Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
  The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington
  Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  The Letters of Ada Lovelace
  “A Page from a California Almanac” by Mark Twain
  On the History of Religion and Philosophy
       in Germany by Heinrich Heine
  The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels
  Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne
  Theory of the Four Movements by Charles Fourier
  “The New Utopia” by Jerome K. Jerome
  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving
  War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  “The Great Nation of Futurity” by John L. O’Sullivan
  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay
  Human, All too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
  Protests from the Study of Jiaobin by Feng Guifen

  The 20th Century
  “Waiting for the Barbarians” by C.P. Cavafy
  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  “The Second Coming” W.B. Yeats
  1984 by George Orwell
  Hind Swaraj by Mohandas K. Gandhi
  Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
  Children of Men by P.D. James
  “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.
  “On Completing the Circle” by Rainer Maria Rilke
  The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
  Ubik by Philip K. Dick
  All the Devils are Here by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
  Social Theory and Social Structure by Robert K. Merton
  “Cramming More Components
       onto Integrated Circuits” by Gordon E. Moore
  Women of the Future by Meta Stern Lilienthal
  Good Will Hunting by Ben Affleck & Matt Damon
  “The Lottery” by Jorge Luis Borges
  “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
  We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  “Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine” by Filippo Marinetti
  A speech by Winston Churchill
  The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  The Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford
  The Once and Future King by T.H. White
  “As I Walked Out One Evening” by W.H. Auden

  The 21st Century
  The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
  The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
  

  October 17, 2011
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