Required Texts
- Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (Zone/MIT, ISBN: 0.942299.51.5)
- Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (Continuum ISBN: 0.8264.9076.X) This may not be available, in which case the edition by University of Minnesota Press is all right too.
- Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza Reader, ed., Edwin M. Curley, Princeton University Press (1994) (ISBN-13: 978-069100067.
- G. W. Leibniz, Philosophical Essays, ed. Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber, Hackett Pub Co Inc (1989) (ISBN-13: 978-0872200623)
These texts will be supplemented by e-resources made available online.
Course Requirements
Students must complete the following work to pass this course:
- Research paper proposal—detailed synopsis of argument and annotated bibliography. Due by October 2.—20%
- Research paper — Due by December 19 (although extensions may be granted). —60%
- attendance and class participation —20%