PHIL 1920

PHIL 1920

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

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.

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (HA-AS)

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

  •  9104 PHIL 1920   DIS 201

  •  9105 PHIL 1920   DIS 202

  •  9106 PHIL 1920   DIS 203

  •  9107 PHIL 1920   DIS 204

  •  9108 PHIL 1920   DIS 205

  •  9109 PHIL 1920   DIS 206