Spring 2023  |  POL 8260 Section 001: Topics in Political Theory -- Modern Thought & Empire (65547)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
6 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Pol Sci grad major
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023
Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1383
Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Readings and research in special topics or problems.
Class Notes:
Modern Thought & Empire This course examines the complex relationship between the development of modern political thought and the history of empire since the sixteenth century. What was the role of imperial experience in shaping the central concepts of political theory, such as state, sovereignty, rights, property, liberty, and progress? What kinds of moral, political, and economic arguments were made to justify or denounce empire? What are the intellectual legacies of these arguments that inform our shared ideas of universalism, pluralism, difference, dignity, solidarity, and community? The course tackles these questions by analyzing global processes - overseas trade, imperial competition, colonization and imperial rule, international migration, the origins of anticolonialism - through the works of canonical political thinkers, alongside a range of primary and secondary sources. Thinkers covered in the course include Montaigne, Grotius, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, Fanon, and Arendt.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65547/1233

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