Political Thought | Humanities & Social Sciences

Political Thought

Course Number: 
HSL584
LTP structure: 
3-0-0
Discipline: 
Philosophy
Credit: 
3.0

Pre-requisite

N/A

Course Objective

· To introduce students to politics from the combined perspectives of political philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas.
· To familiarize students with different conceptions of politics through an understanding of the contexts in which they emerged.
· To encourage an understanding of the role of political thought, concepts, and critiques in the practice of politics

Course Content

The course will focus on early concepts of politics and related terms in various traditions; political forms and regimes; definitions and formations of “state”; the notion of right; sovereignty; deliberation and democracy; constitutions; politics, law, legitimacy, and justice; social contract; politics and material conditions; gender and the politics of social reproduction; politics and representation; politics, caste, race and religion; political romanticism; the language of politics; governmentality and discursive formations; the making of nations, cosmopolitanism, international relations; public sphere; thinking anti-politics.

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