THE HUMANIST INSTITUTE
Class XII

1. Introduction to Modern Humanism

• John Dewey, A Common Faith
• Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not A Christian
• Edward Ericson, The Humanist Way
• Paul Kurtz, The Humanist Alternative
• Nicholas Walter, Humanism
• Howard Radest, The Devil & Secular Humanism
• Corliss Lamont, The Philosophy of Humanism

2. "Race" Issues: Multiculturalism, Ethnicism, Racism, Oppression

• Stephen Toulmin, The Uses of Argument
• Alexis deTocqueville, Democracy in America
• Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and The Last Man
• Robert Bellah, Habits of the Heart
• David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise
• David Roediger, Colored White
• Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror
• Anthony Appiah & Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious
• Anthony Pinn, By These Hands
• Humanism Today, Vol 14

3. Ethics, Moral Development, Human Development

• Arthur Dobrin, Teaching Right from Wrong
• Hans Kung, A Global Ethic for a Global Politics and Economics
• Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Hope
• Mary Midgley, Can’t We Make Judgements
• Ursula Le Guin, The Birthday of the World

4. Beliefs and Ideologies—humanist and non-humanist

• William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
• Huston Smith, The World’s Religions
• Joseph Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Karen Armstrong, History of God
• Burton Mack, Who Wrote the New Testament
• Daniel Pals, Seven Theories of Religion
• Michael Shermer, How We Believe; The Search for God in an Age of Science
• Gerry LaRue, Freethought Across the Centuries
• Chaim Potok, Wanderings

5. Ethical Problems, Economics, Government

• Forrest Church, The American Creed
• Paul Rogat Loeb, Soul of Citizen
• John Dewey, The Moral Writings of John Dewey
• John Dewey, Democracy and Education
• Andrew S. Trees, The Founding Fathers and Politics of Character
• Diane Ravitch, The American Reader
• John P. Kretzmann, Building Communities from the Inside Out
• Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
• Kay Pranis, Barry Stuart, Mark Wedge, Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community

6. Science, Postmodernisms

• Julian Huxley, Evolutionary Humanism
• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Phillip Kitcher, Science, Truth and Democracy
• Paul Kurtz, Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?
• E.O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
• Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
• Rupert Sheldrake, Seven Experiments that Could Change the World
• John Brockman, The New Humanists: Science at the Edge
• John J. McDermott, The Philosophy of John Dewey
• Phillip Appleman, Charles Darwin Anthology
• Noretta Koertge, A house built on sand: exposing postmodernist myths about science

7. December 2004

• Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice
• Carol Travis, The Mismeasure of Woman
• Alice Rossi, Sexuality Across the Life Course
• Edward Stein, The Mismeasure of Desire, the Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation
• Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skohnick, Stephen Sugarman, All Our Families

8. April 2005

• Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers
• David Robinson, The Unitarians and the Universalists
• Howard Radest, Toward Common Ground
• James Turner, Without God, Without Creed

9. August 2005

• John Antonakis, Anna T. Cianciolo and Robert Sternberg, The Nature of Leadership
• Robert Greenleaf, Servant Leadership
• Edgar H. Schein, Organization, Culture and Leadership
• Ronald A Heifez, Leadership Without Easy Answers
• Catherine Bell, Ritual: Perspective and Dimensions
• Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy
• Edwin Fiedman, Generation to Generation
• Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger
• Stephen Ross, Art and Its Significance