IP38020

Module Identifier	IP38020
Module Title	POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND MODERNITY
Academic Year	2000/2001
Co-ordinator	Professor Howard Williams
Semester	Semester 2
Course delivery	Lecture	11 Hours 11 x 1 hour
	Seminars / Tutorials	11 Hours 11 x 1 hour
Assessment	Exam	2 Hours	70%
	Essay	1 x 1,500 word essay	30%

Brief description
A continuation and examination of the issues introduced in Modern Political Theory.

Aims
The aims of this module are to take further the study of principal texts in late modern political thought by looking closely at the main political writings of Marx, Hegel, Lenin and Gramsci and to develop a critical awareness of the complexities and problems of modernity.

Objectives
The objectives of this module are:

to develop in students an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments of these thinkers

to encourage students to evaluate critically their own views on politics in the light of the ideas of these major theorists.

10 ECTS Credits

Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
Lawrence and Wishart. Karl Marx 1818-1883. Selected Works in One Volume - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
H Williams/D Sullivan/G Matthews. Francis Fukuyama and The End of History.