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
Days | Times | Room | Meeting Dates | Instructor |
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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: RequiredISBN: 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