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)  
  Seminars / Tutorials   (11 x 1 hour)  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Exam3 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. 

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
To ensure that the student:


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 Routledge 710003870
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 New York : Dell,
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 Oxford : Oxford University Press
Paul, Ellen Frankel Socialism Oxford : Basil Blackwell for the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University,
Berki, R. N. Socialism London : Dent 460117211
Goodwin, Barbara Social science and utopia Hassocks : Harvester Press
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 Cape 022400770X
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 Camb.U.P. 521437806
Miller, David On Nationality Oxf.U.P. 198280475
Himmelfarb, Gertrude On Liberty and Liberalism Secker & W. 436196204
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich Mutual Aid edition n.e. . A.Lane 713902264
Vincent Modern political ideologies Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell
Kohn, Hans Mind of Germany edition n.i. . Macmillan,London 333034201
Ten, C.L. Mill on Liberty Oxf.U.P. 198246439
Gray, John Mill on Liberty edition 2r.e. . Routledge 415124743
Schneewind Mill London : Macmillan
Kelly Mikhail Bakunin Oxford : Clarendon Press
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 Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press
Dunn The politics of socialism Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
Reiss, Hans The political thought of the German Romantics Oxford : Blackwell 631047603
Macpherson The political theory of possessive individualism Oxford : Clarendon P
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 Free P.,U.S. 29130301
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 1976
Redhead, Brian Political thought from Plato to Nato London : British Broadcasting Corporation
Boucher Political thinkers Oxford University Press 198781946
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 Allen & U. 43200885
L Strauss & J Cropsey (1963) History of Political Philosophy Chicago

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