Macheveli
AK/POLS 3490.06 POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE MODERN AGE
Term F/W 2006-07 Tuesdays 7-10
Room: ACW 307
Course Director: John Simoulidis (sims@yorku.ca)
Office Hours: Mondays, 3:30-5:30, TEL 3026
Course website: http://quartz.atkinson.yorku.ca/2006y-akpols3490a-06
Description: The course begins with the key writings Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau and moves on to a detailed study of liberal-democratic and socialist political theories, with a focus on their best nineteenth century formulations by Mill and Marx. The constitution of political power and the relation of the modern state to civil society are analyzed with reference to the issues of sovereignty, justice, legitimacy, government, individuality, liberty, equality, justice, property, welfare, and social class. The forms of political association and participation are taken to be the foundations of political power and the political principles that regulate various styles of government. By the end of the first......
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