Darren Staloff is an Associate Professor of History at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his B.A. from Columbia College and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Staloff has published numerous papers and reviews on the subject of early American history and is the author of The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts (1998).
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Introduction - Part I
Spinoza - Rationalism and the Reverence for Being
Rorty's Neo-Pragmatism
Max Weber and Legitimate Authority
A.J. Ayer and Logical Positivism
Marx - Historical Materialism
Quine - Ontological Relativism
Dewey - Critique of Traditional Philosophy
Rawls's Theory of Justice
Machiavelli and the Origins of Political Science
Hume's Epistemology
Hegel - History and Historicism
James's Pragmatism
Introduction - Part III
Vico and the New Science of History
More's Utopianism
01. Introduction
Introduction - Part VII
Hume's Theory of Morality
Introduction - Part VI
Bishop Berkley - Idealism and the Critique of the Enlightenment
Introduction - Part V
The Worldly Philosophy of Bernard Mandeville
Gouldner - Ideology and the 'New' Class
02. Presocratics: Ionian Speculation and Eliatic Metaphysics
08. New England Society
81 • Rorty's Neo-Pragmatism
06. Aristotle's Metaphysical Views
03. The Disruption of Amerindian Life
12. Slavery and African-American Life
73 • Introduction
02. The English Context˜Society, Religion, and Politics
07. Political Structures in New England
05. Social Conflict and Slavery in the Chesapeake
Jefferson, the Revolutionary American
11. The Structure of Empire
13. Women and the Family
The High Enlightenment's Cult of Progress - Kant's Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View
Weber's Historical Sociology
20. The Meaning of Revolution
17. The Causes of the American Revolution
Issues and Problems
18. From Protest to Revolution
Lecture 02: Mircea Eliade's "Cosmos and History" and Cyclical Time
Marx's Historical Materialism
Mircea Eliade's Cosmos and History and Cyclical Time
04. The Struggle for Survival
06. The Religion of Puritans
The Road to Victory - The 'Revolution of 1800'
The Allure & Challenge of Thomas Jefferson
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