Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Lecture | 11 Hours. (11 x 1 hour) |
Seminars / Tutorials | 11 Hours. (11 x 1 hour) |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 3,000 words | 40% |
Semester Exam | 2 Hours | 60% |
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
The objectives of this module are:
- to develop in students an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments of key modern political theorists
- to encourage students to evaluate critically their own views on politics in the light of the ideas of major theorists.
Brief description
A continuation and examination of the issues introduced in Year 1 Political Philosophy and Political Theory (Year 2 &3). Particular attention is paid to the Enlightenment and the issue of the nature of modernity.
Aims
The aims of this module are to take further the study of some principal texts in late modern political thought by looking closely at the main political writings of Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, Foucault and Lyotard and to develop a critical awareness of the complexities and problems of modernity. The thinkers looked at will vary from time to time.
Content
The module will look at the ideas of civil society and state in the political theories of Hegel and Marx. Their political philosophies will be explored as accounts of the relation between individual and society, and Marx's understanding of the relation between modernity and capitalism will be critically evaluated. In the session 2007-8 the module will contrast the political philosophies of Hegel and Marx with those of the post-modernists M. Foucault and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
Transferable skills
10 ECTS Credits
Reading List
Recommended TextH Williams/D Sullivan/G Matthews Francis Fukuyama and The End of History Primo search Hegel, G.W.F. (ed A.Wood) Philosophy of Right LUP Primo search Immanuel Kant (1999) What is Enlightenment in Kant's Practical Philosophy Cambridge University Press Primo search Lawrence and Wishart Karl Marx 1818-1883. Selected Works in One Volume - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6