The History of Political Thought

2020/2021

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент политологии и международных отношений

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 2-4 модуль

Преподаватели

Акопов Сергей Владимирович

Рябов Дмитрий Олегович

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course looks at political concepts produced in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and also Russia. Students will learn about why these concepts matter, what controversies surround each of them and what the vigorous debates and disagreements about them reveals about the character of contemporary politics in the era of globalization

Learning Objectives

• The main goal of this course is to introduce students to some of the key political ideas in a chronological and cross-country perspective, grounding students in several national theoretical traditions and encouraging them to produce analysis beyond the nation-states centered paradigm

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Student is able to solve professional problems based on synthesis and analysis
• Student is able to work in team
• Student is able to efficiently communicate based on the goals and communication situations
• Student is capable of posing research problems relevant to the study of political phenomena and political processes; setting particular research tasks; and putting together a research design
• Student is capable of reporting the results of the information retrieval and analysis, academic or applied research she/he has conducted: - in various genres (including reviews, policy papers, reports and publications pertaining to socio-political subject matter); - and depending on the target audience

Course Contents

• Political ideas and religion in Ancient Egypt
• Political ideas in Ancient China (Confucius and Laozi)
• Political thought of Thucydides
• Political ideas of Plato
• Ancient India and Hindu Political thought
• Political Ideas of Aristotle
• Political Ideas of Niccolо Machiavelli
• Political Ideas of Thomas Hobbes
• Political Ideas of Augustine
• Political Ideas of Thomas Aquinas
• Political Ideas of John Locke
• The Quran and Political Ideas of Islam
• Political Ideas of Grotius and Pufendorf. Natural Law
• Thomas Jefferson, American Revolution and the Idea of Democracy
• Immanuel Kant‘s political thought
• Political Ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Early political thought of Karl Marx
• Montesquieu and Rousseau: 18th c. French political philosophy
• Political thought of Carl Schmitt
• Edmund Burke and political philosophy of Conservatism
• Political Ideas of Hannah Arendt
• Political Ideas of John Stuart Mill
• Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and development of their political ideas in the XX century
• Political Ideas of John Rawls
• Feminist Political Theory and its critics
• Political Thought in Russia: a Historical Overview

Assessment Elements

• In-class participation
  For every seminar student should read the required reading and be able to discuss it in class and answer instructor’s questions on the content of the reading as well as on the contribution of this text to contemporary knowledge of political
• Essay
  In the end of the second module of the course students should write a 2000-word essay. The deadline for the essay is 3 weeks before the final seminar.
• Examinaton
  Экзамен проводится в устной форме. Экзамен проводится на платформе Zoom (https://zoom.us/). К экзамену необходимо подключиться согласно расписанию ответов, высланному преподавателем на корпоративные почты студентов накануне экзамена. Компьютер студента должен удовлетворять требованиям: наличие рабочей камеры и микрофона, поддержка Zoom. Для участия в экзамене студент обязан: поставить на аватар свою фотографию, явиться на экзамен согласно точному расписанию, при ответе включить камеру и микрофон. Во время экзамена студентам запрещено: выключать камеру, выключать микрофон. Кратковременным нарушением связи во время экзамена считается нарушение связи менее 5 минут. Долговременным нарушением связи во время экзамена считается нарушение продолжительностью более пяти минут. При долговременном нарушении связи студент не может продолжить участие в экзамене. Процедура пересдачи аналогична процедуре сдачи.

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (4 module)
  0.4 * Essay + 0.2 * Examinaton + 0.4 * In-class participation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Black, Antony. A World History of Ancient Political Thought: Its Significance and Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2016
• Browning, Gary. A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2016. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199682287.001.0001
• Oakeshott, Michael. Lectures in the History of Political Thought, edited by Terry Nardin, and Luke O'Sullivan, Andrews UK Ltd., 2007. ProQuestEbook Central

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Augustine. Augustine: Political Writings, edited by E. M. Atkins, and R. J. Dodaro, Cambridge University Press, 2001. ProQuest Ebook Central,