Syllabus - אזרחות טובה באמריקה (56914)

חומר חובה לקריאה:
I. Defining citizenship.

1. David Ricci, Good Citizenship in America (Cambridge, 2004),
Chapter 1, "The Concept of Citizenship," pp. 3-18.

II. Greece.

2. Richard Livingstone (ed.), Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, "Funeral Oration" [Winter of 431-430 B.C.] by Pericles (New York: Oxford, 1960), pp. 109-117.

3. Ernest Barker (ed.), Aristotle, The Politics [c. 330 B.C.], (New York: Oxford, 1958), pp. 92-111, 262-267, 300-303.

4. "The Crito" [c. 400-390 B.C.], in A. D. Lindsay (introd.), Plato & Xenophon: Socratic Discourses (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1910),
pp. 350-364.

5. Sophocles, "Antigone," in L. R. Lind (ed.), Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translation (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957), pp. 83-109.

III. Rome plus the revival of citizenship.

6. David Ricci, Good Citizenship in America, Chapter 2, "Early Civic Ideas," pp. 19-48.

7. Michael Walzer, The Revolution of the Saints (Cambridge: Harvard, 1965), pp . 1-21, 300-320.

8. "The Mayflower Compact" [1620], in Clarence Ver Steeg and Richard Hofstadter (eds.), Great Issues in American History (New York: Vintage, 1969), pp. 73-74.

9. " Common Sense" [1776], from Howard Fast, The Selected Work of Tom Paine (New York: Modern Library, 1943, 1945), pp. 3-31.

IV. The American Founders.

10. "A Declaration [of Independence, 1776]," in Edward Smith and Harold Spaeth (eds.), The Constitution of the United States (orig., 1956; New York: Barnes and Noble [Harper and Row], 1987), 26-30.

11. Madison and Jefferson on separation of church and state, in Wilson and Donald Drakeman (ed.), Church and State in American History (New York: MJF Books, 2003), pp. 63-69.

12. "Constitution of the United States" [1789], in Smith and Spaeth,
ibid., pp. 41-66.

13. "The Federalist No. 10" [1787], in Edward Earle (ed.), The Federalist (New York: Modern Library, 1937), 33-62.

V. From republicanism to democracy.

14. Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Vintage, 1991), pp. 169-225.

15. Selections from the franchise debates (1820-1830) and speeches by President Andrew Jackson (1829, 1832), in Alpheus T. Mason (ed.), Free Government in the Making, 4th ed. (New York: Oxford, 1985), pp. 368-391.

16. Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" [1849], in Carl Bode (ed.), The Portable Thoreau (New York: Viking, 1947), pp. 109-137.

17. Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address" [1863] and "The Second Inaugural Address" [1865], in Dianne Ravitch (ed.), The American Reader (New York: HarperPerennial, 1991), pp. 149-153.

VI. Clashes, complexities, and frictions concerning citizenship - the Civil War to World War I.

18. "Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" [1848], in Dianne Ravich (ed.), The American Reader (New York: HarperPerennial, 1991), pp. 83-85.

19. "The Producer Must Retain What He Produces" [1893] and "The Omaha Platform" [1892], in Normal Pollack (ed.), The Populist Mind (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967), pp. 57-66.

20. David Ricci, Good Citizenship in America, Chapter 5, pp. "The Challenge to Good Citizenship," pp. 109-133.

21. Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (Cambridge: Harvard, 1962), pp. 14-49.

VII. The rise of consumerism.

22. William Leach, Land of Desire (New York: Vintage, 1993),
pp. 3-38.

23. "The Backward Art of Spending Money" [1912], in Wesley Mitchell, The Backward Art of Spending Money (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1937), pp. 3-19.

24. Selections from Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1932-1941], in Alpheus T. Mason (ed.), Free Government in the Making, 4th ed. (New York: Oxford, 1985), pp. 666-698.

VIII. G.N.P. and ecology.

25. E. J. Mishan, "Ills, Bads, and Disamenities: The Wages of Growth," in Mancur Olson and Hans Landsberg (eds.), The No-Growth Society (New York: Norton, 1973), pp. 63-87.

26. Kenneth Boulding, "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" [1966], and Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons" [1968], in Garrett Hardin (ed.), Population, Evolution, and Birth Control, 2nd ed. (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1969), pp. 115-119, 367-381.

27. Donella Meadows, et al., The Limits to Growth (New York: Universe, 1972), pp. 25-87.

IX. Social limits and the new politics.

28. "Introduction: The Argument in Brief" and "A Duality in the Growth Potential," from Fred Hirsch, Social Limits to Growth (Cambridge: Harvard, 1978), pp. 1-26.

29. Robert Westbrook, "Politics as Consumption," in Richard Wightman and T. J. Jackson Lears (eds.), The Culture of Consumption (New York: Pantheon, 1983), pp. 145-173.

30. John Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, 2nd ed., (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), pp. 10-20. (1st. ed., 1984)

X. Marketing and television.

31. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (New York: Penguin, 1985), pp. 83-98.

32. Neil Postman and Steve Powers, How To Watch TV News (New York: Penguin, 1992), pp. 97-127.

33. Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis, Enlightened Racism (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 1-33.

34. Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the
American Mass Market (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1987),
pp. 3-28, 286-291.

35. Robert Putnam, "The Strange Disappearance of Civic America," in Robert Kuttner (ed.), Ticking Time Bombs (New York: New Press, 1996), pp. 263-285.

XI. Constructive thinking.

36. Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action (Cambridge: Harvard, 1965), pp. 5-16.

37. Joseph Schumpeter, on "creative destruction" in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 3rd. ed., (New York: Harper, 1947), pp. 81-86. (1st. ed., 1942)

38. David Ricci, Good Citizenship in America, Chapter 8, "Constructive Thinking," pp. 223-252.

XII. A new/old paradigm.

40. David Ricci, Good Citizenship in America, Chapter 9, "The Primacy of Politics," pp. 253-294.

XIII. Is good citizenship possible?

41. Joseph Schumpeter, on "democracy" in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy 3rd ed., (New York: Harper, 1947), pp. 250-283. (1st. ed., 1942)

42. Michael Walzer, "A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen," Obligations (Cambridge: Harvard, 1970), pp. 229-238.

43. Robert Alejandro, "Impossible Citizenship," in Karen Slawner and Mark Denham (eds.), Citizenship After Liberalism (New York: 1998),
pp. 9-32.

44. Clyde Wilson, "Citizens or Subjects," in Robert Whitaker (ed.), The New Right Papers (New York: St. Martin's 1982), pp. 107-127.

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