R E A D I N G S - I N - E A R L Y - M O D E R N - E U R O P E
The Republic of Letters & The Nascent Public Sphere
EUH 6935 - Autumn 2011 - Thursday: E 1-3 (7.00-10.00pm) - 13 Keene-Flint Hall
Dr Robert Alan HATCH - 226 Keene-Flint Hall - 392.0271


R E A D I N G S - I N - E A R L Y - M O D E R N - E U R O P E
The Republic of Letters & The Nascent Public Sphere
EUH 6935 - Autumn 2011 - Thursday: E 1-3 (7.00-10.00pm) - CBD 216
Dr Robert Alan HATCH

Rooted in antiquity and flowering with Renaissance Humanism, the Republic of Letters became a radical new reality in Early Modern Europe. No longer a scholarly or literary guild of widely dispersed and decidedly bookish intellectuals, the Republic of Letters— often dismissed as ideal, mythic, invisible —became a new daily reality that often aimed to subvert ancient and traditional foundations. Expanding on the wider efficiency of the postal system, correspondence networks provided a vehicle for the exchange of daily information, and not least, an outlet for freedom of expression not found with published books. By the middle decades of the 17th century, the New Science helped transform the Republic of Letters in its daily practices and in establishing new communication strategies. Working in a harsh intellectual climate—marked by censorship and surveillance backed by incarceration and excommunication—new intellectuals created a new kind of space—without boundary or center—and a new kind of community. By the end of the century, this new community (now expanding its territory with the vernacular) helped undermine the foundations of the ancien regime from within. Foreshadowing the Enlightenment, the nascent-Public Sphere directed itself increasingly toward radical reform—intellectual, social, and political. This seminar plots the unfolding of this dramatic shift in western civilization (1550-1750) by tracing changes in scribal and print culture that prompted new identities for the scholar, intellectual, bourgeois, and citizen. Foreshadowing the Enlightenment, this early modern community helped lay foundations for continuing revolution as much as for democracy.

The principal objective of this course is to identify enduring issues in modern historiography that cut across chronological, geographical, topical, and methodological boundaries. The Seminar is designed to survey the place of the Republic of Letters in discussions across disciplines, history, literature, philosophy, sociology, political science, and ongoing discussions about oral, scribal, and print culture. Part I consists of critical readings of shared materials. Part II concludes the seminar with the presentation, defense, and critical appraisal of each participant's Last Seminar Essay {circa 20pp}. Details about this essay will be discussed in class. In brief, participants will select, compare, and analyze, significant works from their area of specialization (geographical, chronological, thematic), there focusing on principal issues identified in the seminar. Participants are expected to take an active part in Seminar discussions and to present their research and Last Seminar Essay to a critical audience. Each requirement is built into the Seminar schedule. Attendance and participation are strictly mandatory. Office hours for Professor Hatch are Tuesday, 5.00-7.00pm, and Thursday, 3.00-4.00pm, and by appointment, 226 Keene-Flint Hall; Communications: Telephone: 392-0271 (24h machine) but best by E-Mail: ufhatch@ufl.edu

Finally, sections of my WebSite are devoted to this course. Students are required to visit appropriate sections which can be located at: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages. Please read the University statement of Academic Honesty. Participants will be added to a class ListServe cum potential Chat Page. Further information of this and other matters will be discussed at our first class meeting. Books are available at: Gator Textbook, Creekside Mall, 3501 SW 2nd Avenue, Suite D: 374.4500, and also online, e.g., ABE and Amazon will have used copies at reasonable prices. For related information see the WebSite: http://www.gatortextbooks.com




Required Readings
:
{Exclusive Order: Gator Textbook - 374-4500}


Eisenstein, Elizabeth, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Sutton, Geoffrey V., Science for a Polite Society
Habermas, Jurgen, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:
An Inquirey into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Godgar, Anne, Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750
Goodman, Dena, The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Selected articles & E-Texts will be distributed or made available electronically



Seminar Requirements
Critiques (Critical Reviews) of each required text & Seminar Participation {40%}:
Each participant is required to write a critical review of each required book; guidelines for scholarly reviews will be provided. In addition to the traditional concerns of the reviewer, required critical reviews for each book {700-750 words: 3-typed pages} must situate the text in its historiographic tradition following the Mantra (Briefly: Thesis; Objectives; Structure = Argument & Evidence); Context). Group discussion centers on shared readings. Individual Critiques prepare participants for detailed and thoughtful Seminar Discussion. Consistent and appropriate participation in seminar discussion is essential and should be understood as mandatory.

Discussion Leader {5%}:
Seminar participants will lead discussion at two shared readings sessions in Part I and again in Part II. In Part I discussion leaders are responsible, after completing a very close reading of the text, for providing an introduction to the text {10 minutes} and then to assisting in leading discussion for the duration of the seminar session. In Part II, participants present an outline of their seminar Essay (including thesis, purpose, and objective statements). Consistent and appropriate participation in seminar discussion is essential and should be understood as mandatory.

Last Seminar Essay {50%}:
Although this is Seminar is designed as an introduction--designed to help prepare participants for Preliminary and Qualifying Examinations--it also provides an opportunity for writing a Non-Thesis essay. Research time has been carefully allotted to enable participants to select, research, and write a seminar Essay {circa 20 pages}. The major requirement of the seminar is to write, present, and defend a solid piece of historical writing based on issues drawn from historiographic readings. Consistent and appropriate participation in seminar discussion is essential and should be understood as mandatory. Details will be discussed in class.

Seminar Peer Reader {5%}:
Each participant is responsible for serving as 'Seminar Peer Reader' for the Last Essay of a fellow seminar participant. This will require a critical but sensitive reading of the Essay--isolating the strong and weak points in structure, argument, and style--with particular emphasis on how the Essay might be improved. Consistent and meaningful participation in seminar discussion is essential and should be understood as mandatory. Strategies for appropriate participation will be discussed.

Further particulars regarding format will be discussed in seminar.

 

 



 


R E A D I N G S - I N - E A R L Y - M O D E R N - E U R O P E
EUH 6935 - The Republic of Letters & The Nascent Public Sphere - Autumn 2011
Dr Robert Alan HATCH - 226 Keene-Flint Hall - 392.0271



Week I: Thursday: 25 August
Plotting Our Course; Discussion - What is The Republic of Letters?

Week II: Thursday: 1 September
Readings
- Articles, some supplied, others TBA
1.

2.


Week III: Thursday: 8 September
Readings
- Eisenstein, Elizabeth, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
1.

2.


Week IV: Thursday: 15 September - NC - Preparation
Readings: Continue Articles, begin Sutton; Begin to prepare Last Essay Outline & Bibliography (See Below).


Week V: Thursday: 22 September
Readings
- Sutton, Geoffrey V., Science for a Polite Society
1.
2.


Week VI: Thursday: 29 September
Readings:
Habermas, Jurgen, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
1.
2.


Week VII: Thursday: 6 October - NC - Preparation
Prepare 5-page Outline & Bibliography for Last Research Essay


Week VIII: Thursday: 13 October
Readings  - Godgar, Anne, Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750
1.

2.


Week IX: Thursday: 20 October
Readings - Goodman, Dena, The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
1.  

2.


Week X: Thursday: 27 October
Readings -Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
1.

2.



Week XI: Thursday: 3 November - NC - Prepare for Individual Conferences


Week XII: Thursday: 10 November
Individual Conferences; Meet Individually with Professor Hatch; Seminar Essay Preparation


Week XIII: Thursday: 17 November
Individual Last Essay Report:
In-Class Presentation (8-10 minutes; Submit: 1000 Words, Mantra & Outline & Bibliography)


Week XIV: Thursday: 24 November: Thanksgiving, No Class
Last Essays for Week XV are due Saturday,
26 November, 12-Midnight to each seminar member by E-Mail Attachment, PDF recommended.


Week XV: Thursday: 1 December
Seminar Last Essay Presentations

1. a. Essay Author - Presenter:

b. Seminar Peer Reader: 

2. a. Essay Author - Presenter:
b. Seminar Peer Reader:

3. a. Essay Author - Presenter:
b. Seminar Peer Reader: 

4. a. Essay Author - Presenter:
b. Seminar Peer Reader:


5. a. Essay Author - Presenter:
b. Seminar Peer Reader:

6. a. Essay Author - Presenter:
b. Seminar Peer Reader: 


Week XVI: Thursday: 7: Classes End [No Class on 8 December]


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NB: Seminar Essays are due in final form on date of distribution.
If you wish to have your Last Essay returned, kindly supply a
9x12 envelope with appropriate postage and address

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Between History & the Social Sciences
Classic Works & Reference Materials

Articles, Chapters & Essays:
Robert A. Hatch - University of Florida

Introductions {3}: Historians at work, edited by Peter Gay & Gerald J. Cavanaugh. 3 volumes, Harper & Row, New York, 1972-1975.

Davis, Natalie Z. 'Anthropology and history in the 1980s.' The new history: The 1980s and beyond, edited by Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1982.

Bouwsma, William J. 'Intellectual history in the 1980s.' {with response of Joel Colton}. The new history: The 1980s and beyond, edited by Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1982.

Sterns, Peter N. 'Toward a wider vision: Trends in social history.' The past before us: Contemporary historical writing in the United States, edited by Michael Kammen. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 19xx.

Darnton, Robert. 'Intellectual and cultural history.' The past before us: Contemporary historical writing in the United States, edited by Michael Kammen. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 19xx.

Walsh, W.H. 'History and the sciences;' 'Historical explanation;' and Truth and fact in history.' Philosophy of history: An introduction. Harper, New York, 19xx.

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Marx, Karl. 'Critique of Hegel's philosophy of right.' Karl Marx: Early writings. New York, 19xx.

Durkheim, Emile. 'Introduction.' Suicide: A study in sociology. Translated by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson, edited with an introduction by George Simpson. Free Press, New York, 1951.

Weber, Max. Max Weber on law in economy and society. 'Introduction' and 'Basic concepts of sociology.' Simon and Schuster, New York, 1954.

Veblen, Thorstein. 'Foreword,' 'The theory of the leisure class' and 'The higher learning as an expression of the pecuniary culture.' Modern Library, New York, 1931.

Merton, Robert K. 'Introduction' and 'The sociology of knowledge.' Social structure, Revised and enlarged edition, Free Press, New York, 1949.

Dilthey, Wilhelm. 'Individual life and its meaning;' 'The historical approach and the order of the human world' and 'Meaning and historical relativity.' Pattern & meaning in history: Thoughts on history & society. Edited & introduced by H. P. Rickman. Harper & Row, New York, 1961.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 'History.' Essays. To be read with:

Cavell, Stanley. 'The ordinary as the uneventful (a note on the Annales historians). Themes out of school: Effects and causes. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1983.

Geertz, Clifford. 'Thick description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture' and 'Deep play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight.' The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays. Basic Books, New York.

-----. 'Introduction' and 'Blurred genres: The refiguration of social thought.' Local knowledge: Further essays in interpretive anthropology. Basic Books, New York.

Vovelle, Michel. 'Introduction: Ideologies and mentalities--a necessary clarification;' ' Hearts and minds: Can we write religious history from the traces?;' Relevance and ambiguity of literary evidence;' and 'The longue durée.' Ideologies and mentalities, translated by Eamon O'Flaherty, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1990.

Finlay, Robert. 'AHR forum: The return of Martin Guerre; The refashioning of Martin Guerre.' AHR, to be read with:

Davis, Natalie Zemon. 'AHR forum: The return of Martin Guerre; 'On the lame.'

Chartier, Roger. 'Introduction' and 'Intellectual history and the history of mentalités: A dual re-evaluation.' Cultural history: Between practices and representations. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1988.

Thompson, E. P. 'Introduction: Custom and culture.' Customs in common. The New Press, New York.



 
theory & writing history
Robert A. Hatch - University of Florida

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THE ANNALES MOVEMENT
Background & Extensions into the Post-Modern
Robert A. Hatch - University of Florida

G.W.F.Hegel (1770-1831)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Friedrich Neitzche (1844-1900)

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

Max Weber (1864-1920)

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950)

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1859-1939)

Henri Berr (1863-1954)

Lucien Febvre (1878-1956)

Marc Bloch (1886-1944)

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908- )

Ernest Labrousse (1895-1986)

Henri Brunschwig (1904-1989)

Georges Lefebvre (1874-1959)

Fernand Braudel (1902-1985)

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929- )

Ernest Labrousse (1895-1986)

Georges Duby (1919-1996)

Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995)

Pierre Goubert (1915-1995)

Jacques Le Goff (1924- )

Pierre Bourdieu (1930- )

Jacques Revel (1942- )

Philippe Ariès (1914-1982)

Robert Mandrou (1921-1984)

Michel De Certeau (1925-1986)

Edward P. Thompson (1924-1993)

Roger Chartier (1945- )

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005)

Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)




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