Week 1
Falling from and falling to: the case of the Dark Ages
Reading
Wood, M. (1981) In Search of the Dark Ages London: BBC Publications
Wider reading
Bates, B. (2002) The Real Middle-Earth: magic and mystery in the Dark Ages London: Sidgwick & Jackson
Berman, B. (2007) Dark Ages America: the final phase of empire London: Norton
Cunliffe, B. (1993) Wessex to A. D. 1000 London: Longman
Llwelyn, P. (1993) Rome in the Dark Ages London: Constable
Oates, D., Rice, D. (1965) The Dark Ages: the making of European civilisation London: Thames & Hudson
Rudgley, R. (2002) Barbarians: secrets of the Dark Ages London: Channel 4 Books
Week 2
Falling into and out of humanity: the case of the Neanderthal
Reading
Schrenk, F. & Herm, C. (2007) The Neanderthals London: Routledge
Wider reading
Arsuanga, J. (2003) The Neanderthal’s Necklace: in search of the first thinkers Chichester: Wiley
Charles Darwin (1981) The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Princeton University Press
Fagen, B. (2010) Cro-Magnon: how the ice age gave birth to modern humans New York: Bloomsbury
Mellors, P. (1998) The Neanderthal Legacy: an archaeological perspective from Western Europe Princeton University Press
Steven Mithen ( 2003) After the Ice: a global history 20,000 – 5000 B.C. LondonWeidenfeld & Nicolson
Palmer, D. (2000) Neanderthal London: Channel 4 Books
Solecki, R. (1972) Shanidar: the humanity of Neanderthal man London: Allen Lane
Tattersall, I. (1995) The Last Neanderthal: the rise, success, and mysterious extinction of our closest relations Basingstoke: Macmillan
Week 3
Falling into and out of language: the case of the feral children
Reading
Steven Pinker (1994) The Language Instinct New York Morrow
Wider reading
VHS Channel 4: Feral Children
Farozza, A. (1977) (FOLDER) Feral and Isolated Children
William Golding (1955) The Inheritors London: Faber
Lee, N. (2009) OUP The Interactional Instinct: the evolution and acquisition of language Oxford University Press
Blaffer-Hrdy, S. (2009) Mothers and Others: the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding London: Belknap
Mithen, S. (2006) The Singing Neanderthals: the origins of music, language, mind, and body Harvard University Press
Sampson, G. (2005) The ‘Language Instinct’ Debate London: Continuum
Shattuck, R. (1980) The Forbidden Experiment: the story of the wild boy of Aveyron
Week 4
Falling into and out of rationality: the asylum and the prison
Reading
Michel Foucault ( 1971) Madness and Civilisation : a history of insanity in the age of reason London: Tavistock
Wider reading
Foucault, M. (1991) Discipline and Punish London: Penguin
Markus, T. (1993) Buildings and Power: freedom and control in the origins of Modern building types London: Routledge
McLennon, R. (2008) The Crisis of Imprisonment: protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state Cambridge University Press
Piranesi, G.-B., (1973) The Prisons London: Constable
Schwann, A. & Shapiro, S. (2011) How to Read Foucault London: Pluto
Wilde, O. (1949) De Profundis: being the first complete and accurate version of ‘Epistola: in carcere et Vinculis’ London: Methuen
Week 5
Falling into and out of Science: the case of psychoanalysis
Reading
Freud, S. (1991) Vol. 1 of the collected works: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis London: Penguin
Wider reading
Bowlby, R. (1993) Shopping With Freud London: Routledge
Bringmann, W., & Tweeney, R. (1980) Wundt Studies: a centennial collection Toronto: Hogrefe
Said, E. (2003) Freud and the Non-Europeans London: Verso
Stevens, R. Freud and Psychoanalysis: an exposition and appraisal Milton Keynes: Open University
Storr, A. (2001) Freud Oxford University Press
Weber, S. (1999) The Legend of Freud Cambridge University Press
Webster, R. (2002) Freud London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Week 6
Falling into and out of Art: the case of Entarte Kunst
Reading
Hewitt, A. (1993) Fascist Modernism: aesthetics, politics, and the avant-garde Stanford University Press
Wider reading
Antliff, M. & Affron, M. (1997) Fascist Visions: art and ideology in France and Italy Princeton University Press
Berghaus, G. (1996) Fascism and Theatre: comparative studies on the aesthetics and politics of performance in Europe, 1925-1945 Oxford: Berghahn
Evans, D. & Jenkins, J. (1999) Years of Weimar and the Third Reich London: Hodder & Stoughton
Gay, P. (2001) Weimar Culture: the outsider as insider London: Norton
Zox-Weaver, A. (2011) Women Modernists and Fascism Cambridge University Press
Week 7
Adam and Eve
Reading
Augustine (1972) City of God, London: Penguin Books
Genesis ch 1-3 The Holy Bible, Glasgow: Harper Collins
Qu’ran: 2:29f, 7:19f, 20:115f, 7:20f, 20:121
Kvam, K.E. Schearing, L.S. Ziegler, V.H. (1999) Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender, Indiana: Indiana University Press introduction, 225-236
Pagels, E. (1990) Adam, Eve and the Serpent, Harmondsworth: Penguin
Wider reading
Arbel, V.T. (2012) Forming Femininity in Antiquity: Eve, Gender, and Ideologies in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve, USA: Open University Press
Armstrong, K. (1986) The Gospel according to woman: Christianity’s creation of the sex war in the West, London: Elm Tree
Armstrong, K. (1997) In the beginning: a new reading of the Book of Genesis, New York: Ballantine Books
Beattie, T. (2002) God’s Mother, Eve’s Advocate, London: Continuum
ter Borg, M. (2012) Bible figures in Islamic Art, Charleston: Createspace
Ibn al Arabi (1980) Bezels of Wisdom, USA: Paulist Press International, New edition
Abu Ja’far Muhammad Bin Jarir Al-Tabari (1987) The Commentary on the Qu’ran, Oxford: Oxford Uni Press
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler (1995) In memory of her: a feminist theological reconstruction of Christian origins London: SCM Press
Jolly, P. (1997) Made in God’s Image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice, University of California Press
Schearing, L. & Ziegler, V.H. (2013)Enticed by Eden: How Western Culture Uses, Confuses, (and Sometimes Abuses) Adam and Eve, Texas: Bayler University Press
Williams, P. (2001) Doing without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin,Augsburg Fortress
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-1515-7
Week 8
Childhood and choice
Reading
Williams, R. (2000) Lost Icons, London: Continuum
Wordsworth, W. (1965) ‘Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood,’ in Wordsworth’s Poems vol. 1, London: Dent, pp. 240-246 (available at http://www.enotes.com/ode-intimations-immortality-text/ode-intimations-immortality ).
Rose, G. (1995) Loves’ Work, New York: The New York Review of Books p126
Rousseau, J.J. (1993) Emile, London: Everyman pp 5-6
Wider reading
Blake, W. (1958) Songs of innocence and of experience: shewing the two contrary states of the human soul, Slough: University Tutorial Press
Kennedy, D. ‘Notes on the Philosophy of Childhood
and the Politics of Subjectivity’ accessed online at http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Chil/ChilKenn.htm
Plato, (1997) Republic in Plato Complete Works, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company
Plato (1997) The Laws in Plato Complete Works, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company
Interview: The Good Childhood Inquiry (10.09.06) http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/626
Interview: Commercialisation of Childhood (13.12.06) http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1313
Interview on Newsnight:
Williams, R. Human Well-Being and Economic Decision Making, 16/11/09
Macneice, Louis, ‘Prayer before Birth’ (available at http://www.artofeurope.com/macneice/mac1.htm)
Rilke ‘Childhood’ (available athttp://www.artofeurope.com/rilke/ril1.htm)
Rilke ‘Childhood’(available at http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/rainer-maria-rilke/childhood-2/)
Mark Golden, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens, Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
Nandy, A. “Reconstructing Childhood: A Critique of the Ideology of Adulthood,” in Nandy, A. (1987) Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, p 57
Week 9
The Dark Materials Trilogy
Reading
Pullman,P. (2001) The Northern Lights, London: Scholastic Ltd
Pullman, P. (2001) The Subtle Knife, London: Scholastic Ltd
Pullman, P. (2001) The Amber Spyglass, London: Scholastic Ltd
Tucker, N. (2003) Darkness Visible: inside the world of Phillip Pullman, London: Wizard
‘The Dark Materials Debate: life, God the universe…’ at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3613962/The-Dark-Materials-debate-life-God-the-universe….html
Wider reading
Augustine, St Augustine De Musica, London: The orthological Institute pp 107-20, 122-4
Ficino, (1996) Meditations on the Soul, Vermont: Inner Traditions Limited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven
Week 10
‘unfallen’ humanity
Reading
Dostoevsky, F. (2004)The Idiot, London: Penguin Books
Dostoevsky, F. (2006) The Dream of a Ridiculous Man and other Stories, Utah: Waking Lion Press. Also available online at http://www.fiftytwostories.com/?p=270
A short animation of the book by Alexander Petrov can be found on you tube at http://youtu.be/ot45HZNRyzMhttp://youtu.be/Bn1wEt-JNEA
Wider reading
Williams, R. (2008) Dostoevsky, Language, Faith and Fiction, London: Continuum pp47-57
Week 11
Fallen lives
Reading
Augustine (1992) Confessions, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Wider Reading
Brown, P. (1969) Augustine of Hippo, A Biography, California: University of California Press
Marrou, H. (1957) St Augustine and his Influence Through the Ages, New York: Harper Torchbooks
Williams, R. (1990) The Wound of Knowledge, London, Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd
http://youtu.be/ExpLFYp0sEs