interdisciplinary studies in humanities

Advance reading for the April 17 colloquium:

Aestheticism, Messianism, and the (Socio-) Biological Paradigm

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1. Osip Mandelstam, "The Nineteenth Century" (1922) The Complete Critical Prose, trans. Jane Harris. (Ardis: Ann Arbor, MI, 1997)

2. Walter Benjamin, "Notes on the Philosophy of History," Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Intro. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (Schoken Books: NY, 1968)

3. Bruce Mazlish, "Evolving Toward History," The Return of Science : Evolution, History, and Theory, eds. Philip Pomper and David Gary Shaw (Roman & Littlefield: Lanham, Md., 2002)

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Advance reading for the February 27 colloquium with Yuri Slezkine:

A selection from his book, The Jewish Century (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2004), pp. 127-44, 188-203 (the chapter "Babel's First Love: The Jews and the Russian Revolution")

I am also including here:

1. the short story by Isaac Babel that Slezkine's text refers to:

Isaac Babel, "First Love," trans. Peter Constantine (The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, ed. Nathalie Babel, trans. Peter Constantine, intro. Cynthia Ozick [W.W. Norton: NY, 2002]).

2. the complete text of the chapter, "Babel's First Love: The Jews and the Russian Revolution"

Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2004), chapter "Babel's First Love" (pp. 105-203)