UPL518 CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY
Course Content
This course is aimed to introduce students to the work of major political thinkers of the 20th century with the central focus on the problems of domination and inequality. It begins with the four major thinkers of the previous century who have influenced heavily the 20th century political philosophy: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Marx. Then, we will read essays and short passages by Arendt, Foucault, Habermas, Rawls and Mouffle with the aim of reaching certain generalizations and comparisons. Our major questions would be: What kind of different attitudes toward the problems of domination and inequality can be delineated? What is the relationship between domination and inequality? Do they inevitably suppose each other?
