1:25-3:20p W WH205
Meets with POLS Y675
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This course is the first half of a year-long seminar on democratic
political and social theory. In the fall semester we will cover the
historical intersections between democracy and civil society. We will
begin the course with a brief section on democracy in ancient Greece,
but the course will focus on modern political thought. We will read
and discuss works by such seminal thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Benjamin Constant, Alexis de Tocqueville, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx,
Friedrich Engels, Eduard Bernstein, V.I. Lenin, Max Weber, Roberto
Michels, Gyorgy Lukacs, Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, John Dewey,
Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Dahl, and Hannah Arendt. In the Spring
semester we will discuss works of contemporary social and political
theory dealing with democracy and its difficulties. We will read and
discuss works by Francis Fukuyama, Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck,
Zygmunt Bauman, Manuel Castells, Jurgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib, and
Jean Baudrillard.