Mary Dietz Trapping the Prince American Political Science Review 1986

Syllabus: Introduction to Political Theory and Philosophy

Books:

Yous need to purchase the following books (available at Bookie and online bookstores):

Michael Fifty. Morgan (ed.) Classics of Moral and Political Theory. fifth edition (2011,

Indianapolis: Hackett).

All the writings listed in the syllabus that are not available in this reader will be available online on Angel.

Course Schedule:

Thu 08/28: Introduction to the Class (no reading)

Thu 09/04: What is Political Theory and why is there a demand to study information technology?

Max Weber, "Politics equally a Vocation," in Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, pp. 1321-1370.

Sheldon Wolin, "Political Theory as a Vocation," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 63, No. four. (December., 1969), pp. 1062-1082.

Terence Brawl, Reappraising Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), chap. two: Whither Political Theory? Pp. 39-61.

Adrianna Cavarero, "Politicizing Theory," Political Theory, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Aug., 2002), pp. 506-532.

I. History of Political Thought

Thu  09/11: History, office one: Aboriginal Political Thought-Plato

Plato, Commonwealth, Books I, Book Four, Book 5, Volume VII, Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, pp. 75-93, pp.130-169, pp. 186-203.

Julia Annas, An Introduction to Plato's Democracy, (Oxford: Oxford University Printing, 2009), "The Defense force of Justice," and "Plato's Country," pp. 153-189.

Arlene Due west. Saxonhouse, "The Socratic Narrative: A Democratic Reading of Plato's Dialogues," Political Theory, Vol. 37, No. 6 (Dec., 2009), pp. 728-753.

Thu 09/xviii: History, role two: Early on modern political thought- Machiavelli

Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapters 15-26, Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, pp. 534-553.

Machiavelli, Discourses, Book I-3, Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, pp. 554-574.

Mary Dietz, "Trapping the Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Charade," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 80, No. three (Sep., 1986), pp. 777-799.

Thu 09/25: History, part three: Modernistic Political Thought, Contract Theory- Rousseau

Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, part 1, Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, pp. 836-851.

Rousseau, On the Social Contract, Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, Book I, Volume Ii (affiliate 3), 882-904.

Emanuele Saccareli, "The Machiavellian Rousseau: Gender and Family Relations in the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality," Political Theory, Vol. 37, No. iv (Aug., 2009), pp. 482-510.

Thu 10/02: History, part 4: Late modern political Thought-Marx

Marx, "For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing," "Economical and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844," "Theses on Feuerbach, "Uppercase Volume I," in Robert C. Tucker (ed.). The Marx-Engels Reader (second edition, 1978, New York/London: Norton & Company), pp. 66-81, pp. 12-15, pp.143-145, pp. 294-329.

Marx, "Communist Manifesto," "Critique of the Gotha Programme," Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, pp. 1183-1213.

Claudia Leeb, "Marx and the Gendered Structure of Capitalism," Philosophy & Social Criticism (vol. 33, no. 7, Nov 2007), pp. 833-859.

2. II. Concepts of Political Thought
   

Thu ten/09: Concepts, part one: Justice

Aristotle, The Politics, Book 3 (Chapters half-dozen until 12), and Book Four (Chapters 11), in Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Thought, Book 3, pp. 384-389; pp. 404-407.

Immanuel Kant, "To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch," in Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Thought, pp. 985-1007.

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, in Michael J. Sandel (ed), Justice: A Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 203-225.

Susan Miller Okin, "John Rawls: Justice as Fairness – For Whom?" in Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory (University Park: Pennsylvania State Academy Press, 1991), pp. 181-198.

Start Paper is due

Thu 10/16: Concepts, part two: Liberty

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Chap. Iv: "On the Limits to the Say-so over the Private," in Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, pp. 1047-1056.

Isaiah Berlin, "Ii Concepts of Liberty, in David Miller (ed); The Liberty Reader (London: Paradigm Publishers, 2006), pp. 33-57.

Hannah Arendt, "Freedom and Politics," in David Miller (ed); The Liberty Reader (London: Paradigm Publishers, 2006), pp. 58-79.

Nancy Hirschmann, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom," in David Miller (ed); The Freedom Reader (London: Image Publishers, 2006), pp. 200-222.

Thu 10/23: Concepts, part three: Power

Bertrand Russell, "The Forms of Power," in Steven Lukes (ed), Power (New York: New York University Printing, 1986), pp. 19-27.

Robert Dahl, "Power every bit the Control of Beliefs," in Steven Lukes (ed), Power (New York: New York University Press, 1986), pp. 37-58.

Michel Foucault, "Truth and Ability," in Ability /Noesis, Colin Gordon (ed), (New York: Random House, 1972), pp. 109-133; and  "Objective," "Method," "Correct of Death and Power over life," in The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (New York: Vintage Books), pp. 81-102, pp. 135-159.

Georgio Agamben, selections from function III, "The Camp as Biopolitical Image of the Modern," in Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Blank Life, Daniel Heller-Roazen (trans.) (1995, Stanford: Stanford Academy Press), pp. 119-143.

Thu 10/30: Concepts, part four: Resistance

Sophocles, Antigone, in Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, pp. ane-30.

John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, in Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, affiliate two (paragraph 4), 713, chapter 3 (paragraph 19), p. 717, chapter 19 (paragraph 222), pp. 769-770.

Rosa Luxemburg, selections from Reform or Revolution (New York: Pathfinder, 1970), pp.ane-35.

Martin Luther King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," in Civil Disobedience (Boston: University Press of America, 1989), pp. 57-71.

Thu eleven/06: No class, Dr. Leeb presents at a conference

3. III. Paradigms of Political Idea
   

Thu eleven/xiii: Paradigms, part one: Democratic Theory

Sheldon Wolin, "Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Commonwealth," in Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Republic, Peter Euben et al. (Ithaca: Cornell University Printing), pp. 29–58.

Jürgen Habermas, "Three Normative Models of Democracy," in South. Benhabib, ed. Commonwealth and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political (Princeton: Princeton Academy Printing, 1996), pp. 21-thirty.

Seyla Benhabib, "Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy," in S. Benhabib, ed. Democracy and Departure: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 67-94.

Chantal Mouffe, "Republic, Power and the Political," in S. Benhabib, ed. Democracy and Deviation: Battling the Boundaries of the Political (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 245-256.

Second Newspaper is due

Thu eleven/20: Paradigms, function two: Feminist Political Thought

Sally Scholz, "What is Feminism?" and "Schools of Feminist Thought," in her Feminism: A Beginner'south Guide (2010, Oneworld Publications), pp. one-36.

Simone De Beauvoir, "Introduction," The Second Sex, Constance Borde, and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (2011, Random Business firm), pp. iii-17.

Iris Marion Immature, "Displacing the Distributive Paradigm," "Five Faces of Oppression," Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990, Princeton Academy Press), pp. fifteen-65.

Sandra Lee Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power," in K. Conboy, North. Medina & S. Stanbury (eds.) Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment & Feminist Theory (1997, New York: Columbia university Press), pp. 129-154.

Thu 11/27: No class: Thanksgiving Break

Thu 12/04: Paradigms, part three: Critical Theory

Max Horkheimer, "Traditional and Critical Theory," in Disquisitional Theory: Selected Essays (New York: Continuum Publishing, 1975), pp. 188-243.

Theodor Westward. Adorno, "The Culture Manufacture: Enlightenment as Mass Deception," "Elements of Anti-Semitism," in Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, John Cumming (trans.) (2002, The Continuum Publishing Company), pp.120-167; 168-208.

Herbert Marcuse, "I Dimensional Society," One-Dimensional Man: Studies of the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Guild, pp. i-55.

Jürgen Habermas, "Reconciliation Through the Public Employ of Reason," The Journal of Philosophy Vol. 92, No. 3 (Mar., 1995), pp. 109-131.

Third Paper is due

Presentations, Part I

Thu 12/11: Paradigms, part four: Comparative or not-Western Political Thought

Frantz Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness," in Black Skin White Masks (New York: Grove Press, 1967), pp. 109-140; "Apropos Violence," in The Wretched of the Earth, (New York: Grove Press, 1963), pp. 35-106.

Mahatma Gandhi, Moral and Political Writings, selections from Volume II, "Truth and Non-Violence," pp. 298-324.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Under the Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses," in Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke University Printing, 2003; pp. 17-42.

Melissa Williams and Marking Warren, "A Democratic Example for Comparative Political Theory," Political Theory, Feb 2014, vol. 42 no. one, pp. 26-57.

Presentations, Part II

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