Module Identifier |
IP32220 |
Module Title |
POLITICAL THEORY |
Academic Year |
2005/2006 |
Co-ordinator |
Professor Howard L Williams |
Semester |
Intended for use in future years |
Next year offered |
N/A |
Next semester offered |
N/A |
Other staff |
Professor Howard L Williams |
Course delivery |
Lecture | (11 x 1 hour) |
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Seminars / Tutorials | (11 x 1 hour) |
Assessment |
Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
Semester Exam | 3 Hours | 100% |
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. | |
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Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
To ensure that the student:
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has a grasp of the concept of ideology.
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is acquainted with three or more political ideologies.
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is able to evaluate an original text in political theory.
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is capable of putting forward and appraising a political argument.
Brief description
This module provides an advanced introduction to political theory and a close analysis of specific ideas and thinkers.
Aims
The aims of this course are to introduce the student to the use and critical appraisal of some of the principal texts in political thought. This will be done through the study of key classical writers and the investigation of a number of ideologies such as liberalism, nationalism, conservatism, fascism, socialism, and anarchism.
Content
These are the anticipated lecture topics:
1. Plato's Republic
2. Augustine and the City of God
3. Machiavelli's The Prince
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. Nationalist Political Thought
Transferable skills
This module will provide the opportunity for students to develop their oral, intellectual and communication skills. In the lectures emphasis will be placed on understanding, following the argument and summarizing it concisely. In the seminars emphasis will be placed on developing clear, cogent and persuasive arguments. The seminars offer the opportunity for students to show independent reasoning and judgement. Essay writing will encourage students to carry out research on their own initiative and to develop their IT presentation skills. The examination will test knowledge retention, comprehension and skills of analysis under conditions of time constraint.
10 ECTS credits
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
A Vincent (1995) Modern Political Ideologies
Blackwell
B Goodwin (1997) Using Political Ideas
Wiley
H Williams (1991) Political Theory in International Relations
Open University Press
** Supplementary Text
Rosen, Frederick Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy
Oxf.U.P. 019822656X
Grant, Ruth W. John Locke's Liberalism
edition n.e. . Univ.Chicago P. 226306089
Skorupski, John John Stuart Mill
Routledge 415062705
Halliday John Stuart Mill
London : Allen and Unwin
Okin, Susan Moller "Justice,Gender and the Family"
Basic Bks. 465037038
Hobbes, Thomas Leviathan
edition 2r.e. . Camb.U.P. 521567971
Schmitt, Carl Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
Greenwood Press,London 313300577
Cox (2001) Locke on War and Peace
edition n.e. . Univ.P.of America 819126624
Viroli, Maurizio Machiavelli
Oxf.U.P. 198780893
Augustine (2001) City of God
edition n.e. . Penguin 140444262
Rosenblum, Nancy L. Bentham's Theory of the Modern State
Harvard U.P. 674066650
Steintrager, James Bentham
Allen & U. 43201164
Mill, John Stuart Autobiography
Penguin 140433163
Connolly, William E. (2001) Augustinian Imperative
edition n.e. . 742521478
Alvarez (2001) Machiavellian Enterprise
Northern Illinois U.P. 875802478
Althusser, Louis Machiavelli and us
New York ; London : Verso 1859842828
Hale, J. R. Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy
London : English Universities Press
Skinner, Quentin Machiavelli
Oxford : University Press 192875175
Laqueur Fascism
Harmondsworth : Penguin 140221190
Barnes, J.S Fascism
London : Butterworth
Bernstein, Eduard Evolutionary Socialism
Schocken,N.Y. 805200118
Locke, John Essays on the Law of Nature
edition n.e. . Oxf.U.P. 199254214
Hart, H.L.A. Essays on Bentham
Oxf.U.P. 198253486
Tawney, R.H. Equality
edition 5r.e. . Allen & U. 43230148
Godwin Enquiry concerning political justice
Oxford : Clarendon Press
Plamenatz (2001) English Utilitarians
edition 2e. . Blackwell 631054200
Phillips, Anne Engendering Democracy
Polity P. 745606490
Hampton, Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition
edition n.e. . Camb.U.P. 521368278
Bullock Hitler
Harmondsworth : Penguin
Coleman, Janet History of Political Thought
Blackwell 063121822X
Pocock, J.G.A. Machiavellian Moment
edition l.e. . Princeton U.P. 691100292
Carsten, F.L. Rise of Fascism
Batsford 713416041
Ashcraft, Richard Revolutionary Politics
edition l.e. . Princeton U.P. 691102058
Burke, Edmund Reflections on the Revolution in France
edition n.e. . Penguin 140400036
Burke Reflections of the revolution in France
1868
Skinner, Quentin Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
edition n.e. . Camb.U.P. 521596459
Bakunin The political philosophy of Bakunin
New York : Free Press,
Parekh (2001) Jeremy Bentham
London : Cass
Everett (2001) Jeremy Bentham
edition n.e. . Weidenfeld & N. 297179845
Mazlish, Bruce James and John Stuart Mill
edition n.e. . Transaction Bks.,U.S. 887387276
Ryan J.S. Mill
: London : Routledge and Kegan Paul
Herder, Johann Gottfried J. G. Herder on social and political culture
London : Cambridge U.P
Annas, Julia "Introduction to Plato's "Republic""
Oxf.U.P. 198274297
De Felice Interpretations of fascism
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press
Williams (2001) International relations in political theory
Open University Press 335156274
Goodwin, Barbara Using Political Ideas
edition 4r.e. . Wiley 471973432
Locke, John Two Treatises of Government
edition n.e. . Everyman 460873563
Bobbio, Norberto Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition
Univ.Chicago P. 226062481
Dietz Thomas Hobbes and political theory
Lawrence, Kan. ; London : University Press of Kansas
Taylor, A.E. Thomas Hobbes
edition facsim e. . Thoemmes P. 1855065231
Martinich, A.P. Thomas Hobbes
Macmillan 033364218X
Flathman, Richard E. Thomas Hobbes
Sage Pubns. 803940815
Smith, Anthony D Theories of nationalism
London : Duckworth 715605550
Butterfield The statecraft of Machiavelli
London : Bell,
Mendel Michael Bakunin
New York : Praeger
Hitler, Adolf Mein Kampf
edition facsim.of 1939e. . Angriff P.,U.S. 913022101
Stalin Marxism and the national and colonial question
Lawrence and Wishart 850340276
Marxism and Social Democracy
Camb.U.P. 521340497
Meinecke, Friedrich Machiavellism
edition n.e. . Transaction Publishers,U.S. 1560009705
Pappas (2001) Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and the Republic
New York ; London: Routledge,
Manuel Utopian thought in the Western world
Oxford : Basil Blackwell
Lively (2001) Utilitarian logic and politics
Oxford : Clarendon Press
Goodwin, Barbara Using Political Ideas
edition 4r.e. . Wiley 471973432
Mill, John Stuart On Liberty
edition n.e. . Wordsworth Edns. 1853264644
Mill, John Stuart On Liberty
Oxf.U.P. 019282208X
Haslam, Jonathan No Virtue Like Necessity
Yale U.P. 300091508
Coyle, Martin Niccolo Machiavelli's The prince
Manchester University Press 719041953
Owen, Robert New View of Society
Penguin 140423591
Griffin, Roger Nature of Fascism
edition n.e. . Routledge 415096618
Gellner, Ernest Nations and Nationalism
Blackwell 631130888
Minogue, Kenneth R. Nationalism
Batsford 713410507
Kamenka, Eugene Nationalism
E.Arnold 713158751
Brown, Peter Augustine of Hippo
edition 3r.e. . Univ.California P. 520227573
Strauss, Leo History of Political Philosophy
edition 3r.e. . Univ.Chicago P. 226777103
Strauss, Leo History of Political Philosophy
edition 3r.e. . Univ.Chicago P. 226777103
Strauss, Leo History of Political Philosophy
edition 3r.e. . Univ.Chicago P. 226777103
Kraynak History and modernity in the thought of Thomas Hobbes
Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press
Barnard, Frederick Mechner Herder's social and political thought
Clarendon P, 1965. 198271514
Ergang, Robert Reinhold Herder and the foundations of German nationalism
New York ; London : Columbia University Press
Saint-Simon Henri Saint-Simon
London : Croom Helm
Brisbane, Albert General introduction to social science
Westport, Conn : Hyperion Press
Butler, Judith P. Gender Trouble
edition 2r.e. . Routledge 415924995
Crosland, Anthony Future of Socialism
Cape 224603299
Bentham, Jeremy Fragment on Government
Camb.U.P. 521359295
Berlin, Isaiah Four Essays on Liberty
edition n.e. . Oxf.U.P. 192158619
Murdoch, Iris Fire and the Sun
edition n.e. . Chatto 701136677
Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant
Penn.State U.P. 271016760
Greer, Germaine Female Eunuch
edition n.e. . Flamingo 7161220
Vajda, Mihaly Fascism as a Mass Movement
Allison & B. 850311772
Poulantzas Fascism and dictatorship
London : NLB
Griffin Fascism
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Elshtain, Jean Bethke Augustine and the Limits of Politics
edition n.e. . Univ.Notre Dame P. 268020019
Chadwick, Henry Augustine
edition n.e. of "Augustine" . Oxf.U.P. 192854526
Tully, James Approach to Political Philosophy
Camb.U.P. 521436389
Woodcock, George Anarchism
edition n.e.of 2r.e.of "Anarchism" . Penguin 140168214
Miller, David Anarchism
Dent 460110934
Orenstein An introduction to political theory
New York : HarperCollins College Publishers
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb Addresses to the German Nation
edition n.e. . Greenwood Press,London 313212074
Sabine A history of political theory
Hinsdale, Ill. : Dryden Press
Sabine A history of political theory
Hinsdale, Ill. : Dryden Press
Sabine A history of political theory
Hinsdale, Ill. : Dryden Press
Locke A Fantasy of Reason
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Coole, Diana H. Women in Political Theory
edition 2r.e. . Harvester Wheatsheaf 745011462
Wright, Tony Why Vote Labour?
Penguin 140263977
Willetts, David Why Vote Conservative?
Penguin 140263047
Segal, Lynne Why feminsim
Cambridge : Polity Press 745623476
Figgis, John Neville (2001) The political aspects of S. Augustine's 'City of God'
London : Longmans, Green
Deane The political and social ideas of St. Augustine
edition n.i. . Columbia U.P. 231085699
Woolf The nature of fascism
London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Scruton The Meaning of Conservatism
edition 3r.e. . Palgrave 333912446
Skinner, Quentin The foundations of modern political thought
Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press 521293375
Kropotkin The essential Kropotkin
New York : Liveright
Mazzini, Giuseppi. The duties of man
London : J.M. Dent New York : E.P. Dutton 460002244
Gay, Peter The dilemma of democratic socialism
New York ; London : Collier-Macmillan
Horowitz The anarchists
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Joll, James The Anarchists
edition 2r.e. . Methuen & Co. 416722601
Woodcock The anarchist reader
Hassocks : Harvester Press
Pangle, Thomas L. Spirit of Modern Republicanism
Univ.Chicago P. 226645401
Wright, Anthony Socialisms
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Paul, Ellen Frankel Socialism
Oxford : Basil Blackwell for the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University,
Berki, R. N. Socialism
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Goodwin, Barbara Social science and utopia
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Millett, Kate Sexual Politics
edition n.e. . Virago 860680290
Pateman, Carole Sexual Contract
Polity P. 745604323
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution
edition n.e. . MIT P. 262610108
Proudhon Selected writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
London : Macmillan
Primo De Rivera, Jose Antonio Selected Writings
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Wollstonecraft, Mary Vindication of the Rights of Woman
edition n.e. . Everyman's Library 1857150864
Talmon, J.L. Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
edition n.e. . Penguin 140552057
Hobbes, Thomas On the Citizen
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Miller, David On Nationality
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Himmelfarb, Gertrude On Liberty and Liberalism
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Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich Mutual Aid
edition n.e. . A.Lane 713902264
Vincent Modern political ideologies
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Kohn, Hans Mind of Germany
edition n.i. . Macmillan,London 333034201
Ten, C.L. Mill on Liberty
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Gray, John Mill on Liberty
edition 2r.e. . Routledge 415124743
Schneewind Mill
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Kelly Mikhail Bakunin
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Carr Michael Bakunin
London : Macmillan
Harris The social philosophy of Giovanni Gentile
Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Machiavelli The prince
Harmondsworth : Penguin
Bernstein, Eduard The preconditions of socialism
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Dunn The politics of socialism
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Reiss, Hans The political thought of the German Romantics
Oxford : Blackwell 631047603
Macpherson The political theory of possessive individualism
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Carter, April The political theory of anarchism
London : Routledge and Kegan Paul
Canavan, Francis Patrick The political reason of Edmund Burke.
Published for the Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics by the Duke University P.; Cambridge U.P
Williams (2001) International relations in political theory
Open University Press 335156274
Williams, Howard Ll. International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory
Macmillan 333626664
Williams, Howard Ll. International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory
Macmillan 333626664
Gilmour, Ian Inside Right
edition n.e. . Quartet Bks. 704332388
Bevan, Aneurin In Place of Fear
edition n.e. . Quartet Bks. 704301229
Gregor Ideology of Fascism
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Kohn, Hans (2001) Idea of Nationalism
Collier-Mac. 20736606
How Conservatives Think
Penguin 140218858
Oakeshott, Michael Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
edition 2r.e. . Liberty Fund 865970955
IONESCU, G POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SAINT-SIMON
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Redhead, Brian Political thought from Plato to Nato
London : British Broadcasting Corporation
Boucher Political thinkers
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Cross Plato's Republic
London : Macmillan
Arendt, Hannah Origins of Totalitarianism
edition n.e. . Deutsch 233978984
O'Sullivan, Noel Fascism
Dent 046011428X
Neocleous, Mark Fascism
Open U.P. 335194877
Freeman, Michael Edmund Burke and the Critique of Political Radicalism
Blackwell 631111719
O'Gorman, Frank Edmund Burke
Allen & U. 004921019X
Machiavelli Discourses on Livy
Oxford : Oxford University Press 192804731
Scruton, Roger Conservative Texts
Macmillan Academic & Professional 333548167
O'Sullivan, Noel Conservatism
Dent 460116312
Williams Concepts of ideology
Brighton : Wheatsheaf
Williams Concepts of Ideology
edition n.e. . Harvester Wheatsheaf 745007031
Humboldt, Wilhelm Von Limits of State Action
Camb.U.P. 521076560
Hobbes, Thomas Leviathan
edition n.e. . Penguin 140431950
(2001) Knowledge and Belief in Politics
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L Strauss & J Cropsey (1963) History of Political Philosophy
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Journals
(1988) Political Theory Response to Hall's 'The Republic and the Limits of Politics'
White, Nicholas P. 915144565
** Supplementary Text
T.E. Mommsen (1951) Journal of the history of ideas St. Augustine and the Christian Idea of Progress: The Background of the City of God http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=Journal+of+the+history+of+ideas&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 12 part pages . Philadelphia : Temple University 225037
Campbell, Blair (1980) History of Political Thought Intellect and the Political Order in Plato's Republic http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=history+of+political+thought&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
part 1 pages 361-389. Exeter : Imprint Academic 0143781X
Neu, J (1971) Philosophy Plato's analogy of state and individual: the Republic and the organic theory of the state http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=philosophy&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 46 238-54. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
E.L. Fortin (1979) Review of politics Augustine's City of God and the Modern Historical Consciousness http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=review+of+politics&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 41 . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame 346705
Klosko, George (1986) History of political thought The Straussian Interpretation of Plato's Republic http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=history+of+political+thought&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 7 275-293. Exeter : Imprint Academic 0143781X
Skemp (1980) History of political thought How Political is the Republic? http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=history+of+political+thought&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 1 part pages 38170. Exeter : Imprint Academic 0143781X
Walsh, W H (1962) History and theory Plato and the Philosophy of History: History and Theory in the Republic http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=history+and+theory&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 2 part pages 42430. Middletown : Wesleyan University Press 182656
Utilitas http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=utilitas&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
Martin R (1981) History of political thought The Ideal State in Plato's Republic http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=history+of+political+thought&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 2 part pages 10959. Exeter : Imprint Academic 0143781X
L. Arneil (1966) Political studies The wild Indian's Venison: Locke's Theory of Property and English Colonialism in America http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=political+studies&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 44 part 1 pages 60-75. Oxford : Clarendon Press 323217
S M Okin (1976) Philosophy and public affairs Philosopher Queens and Private Wives: Plato on Women and the Family http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=philosophy+and+public+affairs&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 6 345-69. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press 483915
Denyer, Nicholas (1986) Philosophy Ethics in Plato's Republic http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=philosophy&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 20 part pages 19-34. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Edelstein, L (1949) Journal of the history of ideas The Function of Myth in Plato's Philosophy http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=Journal+of+the+history+of+ideas&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 10 part pages 463-49. Philadelphia : Temple University
R Martin (1972) Journal of the history of ideas The Two Cities in Augustine's Political Philosophy http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=Journal+of+the+history+of+ideas&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20
edition 33 . Philadelphia : Temple University 225037
Web Page/Sites
City of God on the net at: http://www.ccel.org/fathers/NPNF1-02/ http://www.ccel.org/fathers/NPNF1-02/
Another excellent site: http://www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/sophia/augustine/augustine.htm http://www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/sophia/augustine/augustine.htm
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6