POL 509
- Spring 2011-2012
State, Democracy, and Society in Twentieth-Century European Political Thought
Situated at the intersection of the history of political thought, public law, and social theory, this course examines the ways European thinkers have argued about how, if at all, democratic ideals can be realized in the circumstances of modernity, social complexity and modern capitalism in particular. Evaluation of their arguments about the political forms, especially types of states, and the bases of social integration, nationalism in particular, that democracy might require. Special attention is paid to the evolution of the welfare-state, its critics from Hayek to Foucault, and attempts to save it on a supranational level.
Sample reading list:
Max Weber,
Economy and Society
Michel Foucault,
The Birth of Biopolitics
Friedrich von Hayek,
The Constitution of Liberty
Juergen Habernas,
Between Facts and Norms
Carl Schmitt,
The Concept of the Political
Niklas Luhmann,
Social Systems
Schedule/Classroom assignment:
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Class number: 43304
Section: S01
Time:
1:30 pm
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4:20 pm
Days:
M
Building-Room:
Corwin Hall
126
Enrolled/Limit:
9/
20