July 1, 2011

Columbia Contemp Civ Optional Books

Contemporary Civilization professors usually assign a few of the following books in addition to the required fall semester and spring semester books.

These books are listed at the end of the Contemporary Civilization syllabus on the Core Curriculum's home page.

Mill, Utilitarianism (Oxford)
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Vintage)
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Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago)
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Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Grove)
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Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Vintage)
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MacKinnon, Towards a Feminist Theory of State (Harvard)
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Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Harvard)
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Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago)
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Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (MIT)
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Voltaire, Candide (Penguin)
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