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Contemporary Political Philosophy

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JPB157

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Course schedule

NB: The schedule of classes is subject to change and further specification. For more detailed information including required chapters of the assigned books and other reading materials, see Moodle.  

I. On the political in the works of C. Schmitt, C. Mouffe and H. Arendt

Week 1: The concept of the political and critique of liberalism in C. Schmitt’s work

Reading:     C. Schmitt: The Concept of the Political  

Week 2: Agonistic theory of democracy

Reading:     C. Mouffe: On the Political   

Week 3: Arendt’s phenomenological theory of political action 

Reading:     H. Arendt: Between Past and Future, On Human Condition  

II. Frankfurt school and post-structuralism

Week 4: J. Habermas’ discourse theory of democracy

Reading:     J. Habermas: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere  

Week 5: Michel Foucault on Power and Knowledge

Reading: M. Foucault: Two Lectures - Lecture Two (Lecture One - recommended only)

                     Discipline and Punish - Chapter 1 

   History of Sexuality Vol. 1 - Part 4, Chapter 2, Part 5  

Week 6: MIDTERM EXAM  

Week 7: From hegemony to a critique of ideology

Reading: E. Laclau: “Democracy and the Question of Power”                         

III. The debate between liberals and communitarians

Week 8: Rawls’ theory of justice 

Reading:     J. Rawls: A Theory of Justice  

Week 9: Communitarian critique of Rawls’ liberalism 

Reading:     M. Sandel: Democracy’s Discontent                   

Week 10:  Libertarian critique of Rawls; Rawls’ response to communitarians

Reading:     R. Nozick: “Distributive Justice”; J. Rawls: “Justice as Fairness, Political not Metaphysical”, “Domaine of the Political and Overlapping Consensus”  

IV. Turning back to where it all began

Week 11: Republican theory of democracy

Reading:     TBA  

Week 12: L. Strauss’ and H. Arendt on Philosophy and Politics

Reading:     H. Arendt: “Philosophy and Politics”; L. Strauss: “What is Political Philosophy”, “Three Waves of Modernity”

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This course introduces the students to the most important topics discussed in contemporary political philosophy or political theory. The course is divided into four sections.

The first one concerns the understanding of politics in the works of C. Schmitt, H.

Arendt and C. Mouffe.

The second section examines the relationship between theory and practice from the point of view of the critical theory and post-structuralism. The third section is devoted to the debate between the liberals and the communitarians.

The fourth and last section of the course then turns to the various ways of (re-)interpreting (or appropriating) of both ancient political theory and ancient political practice in contemporary political philosophy.