Nineteenth-Century Political Thought
- Course Code
- PSCI 0060
- Course Type
- Tutorials
- Subject Credit
- Course Availability
The legacy of nineteenth-century political thought is long and enduring, having shaped the contours of twentieth and twenty-first-century political theory and practice. This course examines nineteenth-century political thought. It explores how the advent of democracy, and the competing visions of it, shaped fundamentally the preoccupations of nineteenth-century political thinkers defining the way they understood concepts such as equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, tyranny, and revolution.
Sample Topics:
Benjamin Constant, Political Writings
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
J.S. Mill, On Liberty
J.S. Mill, Subjection of Women
Robert Owen, A New View of Society
G.W.F. Hegel, Elements of Philosophy of Right
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism