Adam Kissel
Ph.D. candidate
The Committee on Social Thought
The University of
Chicago
a-kissel@uchicago.edu
302-668-8219
"My
friend, you are an American. Your nation is the greatest and most famous for
wisdom and for strength. Aren't you ashamed to worry about money, getting as
much as you can, and about prestige and status, instead of intelligence and
truth and the soul, getting it to be the best it can be? You don't worry about
that; you don't even think about it."
Socrates (with some
substitutions; from Plato's Apology at
about 29).
CV (HTML) | Dissertation
proposal (PDF)
Stuff
- Readings
(and reading notes, dating back to 1997) | Class
Papers (ca. 1997-99)
- Enrich Your
Vocabulary | My brother runs the best Florida Real Estate School in Florida. | Rhetoric | Sources of the Good |
Undergraduate
General Liberal Education
- Resume and Trombone Resume
- Pictures: most of the pictures formerly linked here are now too old; the links have been removed. But I must keep the duck pictures of
myself.
- University of Chicago fight songs, cheers,
Alma Mater, Band, movies
- Work for Joseph M. Williams (1997-98): Religion & Science; Critical Legal Studies;
Student-as-Consumer
- Student
Liaison to the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago | for what
it's worth, Student
Government
- COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL THOUGHT
Courses Taken (some notes from these courses are available online)
- Leon Kass, Genesis
(notes from 12/01, now superseded in part by Mr. Kass's new book) |
Exodus (summary)
(reading
notes) | Meno |
Nicomachean Ethics
- Paul Friedrich, Homer's Odyssey
- Jonathan Lear, Plato's Gorgias
- Wendy Olmsted, Reading Course: Plato's Republic
- Bernard McGinn, History of
Christian Thought I (not many notes here)
- Margaret M. Mitchell, The Pastoral Epistles (paper TK)
- David Tracy, Reading Course: City of God
-------------, Modernity/Postmodernity
- Terry Eagleton, Modernism
- David Grene and Wendy Doniger, Shakespeare: Measure for
Measure and Troilus and
Cressida
- David Bevington, Reading Course: Shakespeare
- Wendy Olmsted, Paradise
Lost
- Wayne Booth, The
Rhetorics of Science and Religion
- Wendy Olmsted and Wayne Booth, Reading Course--Rhetoric
- Marc Fumaroli, Montaigne's Essays
- Ralph Lerner, Political Thought of Benjamin
Franklin
-------------, Gibbon's Decline and
Fall
- Robert Pippin, Kant's Theory of Freedom (not many notes here)
- Jean Elshtain, Augustine or Rousseau?
- Donald Levine, Reading Course--Undergraduate
Education
- Lorraine Daston, The Moral Authority of
Nature
- F. (Chris) Gamwell, Introduction to Ethical Theories
- Nancy Stein with Tom Trabasso, Conflict, Culture, Attitudes, and
Change
- Greek 101, 102, 103 -- Attic Greek
- Latin 101, 102, 103 -- Latin
- German Reading Exam: High Pass
- TA for The Organization of Knowledge (Wayne Booth, Herman
Sinaiko, and William Sterner), SPR01, SPR04
- TA and Writing Intern for Human Being and Citizen (Herman
Sinaiko, 2002-03; Lee Behnke and Ted O'Neill, 2003-04)
- Teaching Intern for Classics of Social and Political Thought III
(Donald Levine)
- Pedagogies of Writing (Little Red Schoolhouse Staff)
- Fundamentals
List (exam January 24-29, 2002)
- Dissertation
proposal
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