Module Identifier | IP32220 | ||
Module Title | MODERN POLITICAL THEORY | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Howard L Williams | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 11 Hours (11 x 1 hour) | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 11 Hours (11 x 1 hour) | ||
Assessment | Semester Exam | 2 Hours | 70% |
Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 2,000 words | 30% | |
Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module, normally during the supplementary examination period. For further clarification please contact the Teaching Programme Administrator in the Department of International Politics. |
1. Marx's theory of ideology
2. Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia
3. Nationalist political thought
4. Liberal political ideology - Hobbes and Locke
5. Liberalism and Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill, James Mill & Bentham
6. Conservatism - contemporary and classical
7. Fascism - is there a coherent ideology?
8. Anarchism - Bakunin, Godwin and Kropotkin
9. Feminism - classical and contemporary
10. Socialism - is there a non-marxist socialism?
11. John Rawls and contemporary liberalism
10 ECTS credits