Overview
Syllabus
Week 1
What is Political?
What is Political Philosophy?
Emergence of Modern Political Philosophy
Significance of Modern Political Philosophy
Week 2
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Industrial Revolution
Modernism
Week 3
Jeremy Bentham
James Mill
John Stuart Mill
Critical Evaluation
Week 4
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Critical Evaluation
Week 5
T H Green
Immanuel Kant
Friedrich Hegel
Critical Evaluation
Week 6
Dialectical Materialism
Fredrich Engels
Karl Marx
Critical Evaluation
Week 7
Critique of Idealism
Class Struggle
Surplus Labour
Alienation
Week 8
Antonio Gramsci
Louis Althusser
Ongoing Debates
Critical Evaluation
Week 9
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Critical Evaluation
Week 10
Robert Nozick
Martha Nussbaum
Critical Evaluation
Week 11
Michael Sandel
Michael Walzer
Charles Taylor
Critical Evaluation
Week 12
Identity Politics and Multiculturalism
Will Kymlicka
Bhikhu Parekh
Critical Evaluation
Week 13
Critique of Modernism
Michel Foucault
Judith Butler
Critical Evaluation
Week 14
Schools of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
Anthony D. Smith
Critical Evaluation