I'm continuing to read through the Bhagavad Gita - trying to keep all the names and relationships straight.  I'm enjoying the language and poetic nature of the work.

We received the reading list for the Spring 2013 session:

In LS 801 we will be concentrating our attention on the 19th and 20th centuries, still by necessity leaving out many important perspectives. We will start with the French Revolution (1789-94), generally seen an event that ushers in the 'modern'.  I will be sending you a formal course outline for LS 801 shortly, but in the meantime the list of readings will give you a sense of how it will unfold:

Martin McCory, The French Revolution for Beginners
Anatole France, The Gods Will have Blood
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Henrik Ibsen, Enemy of the People
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
Camus, The Stranger
Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Virginia Woolf, A Room of Ones Own
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just
Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error
Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station
DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover
Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought
Shierry Nicholson, The Love of Nature and the End of the World