Assignment List

Dec 20 Complete Orientalism by Edward Said and chapters nine (“ An Enquiry into the Nature of a Certain Twentieth-Century Polemic”) and ten (“Enemies of Orientalism”) from Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents by Robert Irwin
Dec 21 Begin Tablet and Pen by Reza Aslan ( review in www.wordswithoutborders.com; book available through www.indiebound.org )
Dec 22 Begin Beirut 39 by Samuel Shimon, Amin Maalouf, and Tahar Ben Jelloun
Dec 23 Consult Persian Letters by Charles de Montesquieu (EPUB)
Dec 24 Begin Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology (PDF)
Dec 27 Consult chapters two (“Quining Consciousness”) and three (“ Consciousness and the Brain”) of Netlibrary book Consciousness Reconsidered by Owen Flanagan
Dec 28 Read Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James on e-reader (EPUB)
Dec 29 Consult chapter five (“Unconscious Information in Language and Psychodynamics”) in Netlibrary book Languages of the Mind: Essays on Mental Representation by Ray Jackendoff
Dec 30 Consult Book II (“The Definition of Mind”) in Netlibrary book The Mind and the Brain by Alfred Binet (EPUB)
Dec 31 Begin blog post answer to the question “ Is there such a thing as Middle Eastern consciousness? If yes, is it organic or is it a product of Western cultural, economic, or political forces? If no, what Middle Eastern archetypes are part of the global collective unconscious?”