1. Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy

2. Schmitt, Mouffe and the “Political”: Life, Liberty and the Critique of Liberalism

3. Habermas and Rawls: Deliberative Democracy and Distributive Justice in an Illiberal World

4. Foucault: Sovereignty, Power and Knowledge in the Age of Fake News

5. Arendt v. Fanon: Power, Freedom and Political Violence

6. Chomsky v. Nozick: Anarchism and the Debate on (Un)Civil Disobedience

7. Midterm Exam

8. Berlin: Positive and Negative Liberty in Democracies

9. Laclau and Mouffe: Post-Marxism, Populism and Hegemony

10. Butler and Young: Performative Politics in Fractured States

11. Postman and Debord: Self, State and Pop Culture

12. The Anti-Hobbesian Tradition: Powerless Groups and Powerful States

13. Politicizing the Climate: The Philosophy of the Environment

14. Final Exam