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PHIL 458-558/5119 - Advanced Seminar in Political Philosophy (3 cr.)


Prerequisites
Senior level, graduate level, or consent of instructor.

Description


This advanced seminar will focus on contemporary trends in political philosophy with an emphasis on how classical political texts and problems have served as points of departure for new perspectives. The approaches studied in this course will vary from semester to semester and may include deliberative democracy, theories of recognition, liberalism, secularism/post-secularism, cosmopolitanism, and the relationship between politics and aesthetics. Reading may include the work of Arendt, Schmitt, Agamben, Ranciere, Honneth, Habermas, Rawls, Taylor, Zizek, Fraser, and Foucault.
 

When Offered
Offered in alternate years.


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