POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY II - POS202 Spring 2025
Course
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Lessons
Here is the course outline:
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 |