POLS 308 - Modern Political Theory

Description

Hours: Three hours lecture per week Description: The age of modernity brought with it new conceptions of the self, individual rights, and the right to revolution. It also ushered in an age of new abuses of power: labor exploitation, totalitarianism, and fears of a surveillance society. This course explores eighteenth- through twentieth-century theories responding to these historical and social developments with an eye to the continuing impact and relevance of modern political thought.

Meeting Information

Info current as 5/8/2024
Days Times Room Meeting Dates Instructor
MW  12:00 PM  -  1:15 PM  Del Norte 3540 1/17/2015 - 5/15/2015 Mary McThomas

Status: Open
Class Number: 3727
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Lecture
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 1/17/2015 - 5/15/2015
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 27
Available Seats: 3
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0

Textbook / Other Materials

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-9562915410
Title: The Social Contract and Discourses
Publisher: BN Publishing
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-0394713403
Title: The Foucault Reader
Publisher: Vintage
Author: Michel Foucault

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-0142437568
Title: The Portable Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Author: Hannah Arendt

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-0679738114
Title: Open Letters: Selected Writing, 1965-1990
Publisher: Vintage
Author: Vaclav Havel

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-0802141323
Title: The Wretched of the Earth
Publisher: Grove Press
Author: Frantz Fanon

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-0307277787
Title: The Second Sex
Publisher: Vintage
Author: Simone de Beavoir

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-0806509020
Title: Existentialism and Human Emotions
Publisher: Citadel Press/Kensington Pub
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-0393330410
Title: Civilization and Its Discontents
Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company
Author: Sigmund Freud

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-0679724629
Title: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Publisher: Vintage
Author: Friedrich Nietzche

Status: Required
ISBN: 978-0872203204
Title: Ethical Philosophy
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Author: Immanuel Kant

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Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division