PHIL 1920

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PHIL 1920
Introduction to Modern Political Theory

Course information provided by the 2016-2017 Catalog.

This course offers a survey of modern political theory in the West.  We will examine some of the persistent dilemmas of political modernity and the attempts of several canonical political theorists to respond to them: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Mill, Marx, and Nietzsche.  In each case, we will attend to the particular crises these theorists addressed in their work—such as the European wars of religion, the English Civil War, colonialism, the French Revolution, and industrial capitalism—as well as the broader philosophical and political issues they continue to pose to us now.  Our approach will be both historical and conceptual, in other words, with the hopes of providing students with a nuanced but clear understanding of political theory as a distinctive form of political inquiry.


Distribution Category (HA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)

Comments PHIL 1420 can be taken in sequence with PHIL 1410 .

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 1615

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9103 PHIL 1920   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9104 PHIL 1920   DIS 201

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9105 PHIL 1920   DIS 202

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9106 PHIL 1920   DIS 203

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9107 PHIL 1920   DIS 204

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9108 PHIL 1920   DIS 205

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9109 PHIL 1920   DIS 206

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person