INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES
"Liberty and Society" Summer SEMINARs 2011

Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People on the Barricades" (1830)

David Hart's lecture handouts and overheads:

1. The State and the Ruling Class
2. A Brief History of Bills of Rights
3. The State and Modern War
4. The Culture of Liberty vs. the Culture of Authority and Obedience

The video clips I use in the lectures are collected at this page.

1. The State and the Ruling Class

1. Lecture Outline and Recommended Reading [PDF]
2. Lecture Slide Show - Wake Forrest
   1. PDF version (single file) [PDF 13.4 MB]
   2. HTML version (click on the slide to advance to the next one)
3. Lecture Slide Show - Bryn Mawr
   1. PDF version (single file) [PDF 8.5 MB]
   2. HTML version (click on the slide to advance to the next one)
4. Other Lecture Material
   1. Classical Liberal Views of State Functions [PDF]
   2. The Spectrum of State Power [PDF]
   3. Schematic of the State and Class Structure [PDF]
5. Video clips
   1. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - "the constitutional peasants"
   2. Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, Yes, Prime Minister: A Real Partnership (1986) - the Civil Service pay rise.
6. Additional material:
   1. A more detailed bibliography [PDF] [HTML]
   2. A collection of quotations about class and the State
   3. A summary page of my thoughts on the topic
   4. A collection of caricatures and images of the Ruling Class

James Gillray, "The British Atlas, or John Bull supporting the Peace Establishment (1816)

The Institutions and Class Structure of the State [See the Key to the Schematic for explanations of the symbols]

2. A Brief History of Bills of Rights

1. Lecture Outline and Recommended Reading [PDF]
2. Lecture Slide Show
   1. PDF version (single file) [4.8 MB PDF]
   2. HTML version (click on the slide to advance to the next one)
3. Other Lecture Material
   1. Lecture Handout: Anthology of Bills of Rights [3.5 MB PDF]
   2. The Two Traditions of Rights [PDF]
   3. Who has rights? [PDF]
4. Additional Bills of Rights [PDF]
5. Video clips:
   1. Ridley Scott, Robin Hood (2010) - Robin learns about his Father the "Philosopher of Liberty"
   2. Ridley Scott, Robin Hood (2010) - Robin demands that the King respect the ancient rights of Englishmen in a written Charter

The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)

3. The State and Modern War

1. Lecture Outline, Recommended Reading, & Filmography [PDF]
2. Lecture Slide Show
   1. PDF version (single file) [14.5 MB PDF]
   2. HTML version (click on the slide to advance to the next one)
3. Video clips:
   1. Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory (1957) - the calculus of death.
4. Other material:
   1. Bibliography, film guide, art guide, etc.

Pablo Picasso, "Guernica" (1937)

Honoré Daumier, "The Army Hierarchy" (1850s)

4. "Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer": The Culture of Liberty vs. the Culture of Obedience

1. Lecture Outline, Recommended Reading, & Filmography [PDF]
2. Lecture Slide Show
   1. PDF version (single file) [17.1 MB PDF]
   2. HTML version (click on the slide to advance to the next one)
3. Video clips:
   1. Peter Weir, Dead Poets Society (1989) - marching to the beat of a different drummer 1
   2. Arthur Hiller, The Americanization of Emily (1964) - memorializing the fallen in war
   3. Volcker Schlöndorff, The Tin Drum (1979) - marching to the beat of a different drummer 2

British Propaganda Poster

Oscar beating his drum to a different tune in "The Tin Drum" (1979)