澳门历史开奖记录

Contemporary political debate remains indebted to concepts and arguments developed in the history of political thought. This module explores this history by examining a selection of key figures and movements in the history of modern European, American, and African political thought. Students will engage in close, critical reading of canonical texts. They will learn how to accurately interpret and critically evaluate the arguments in those texts. Students will thereby learn how to deal with the legacy that these arguments from the past have bequeathed to the debates in our present.

Chronologically, the module will focus on the history of political thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a concluding discussion of the mid-twentieth century. Geographically, the focus will be on thinkers from Britain, North America, France, Germany, and North and West Africa.

Thinkers to be studied will range from the well-known and canonical to the lesser-known and unjustly neglected. These figures might include: Montesquieu; David Hume, Adam Smith and other figures in the Scottish Enlightenment; Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, Belinda, and other figures in the eighteenth-century abolitionist movement; Nicolas de Condorcet, Olympe de Gouges and other figures writing during the French revolution; Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Pomp茅e Valentin Vastey and other figures writing during the Haitian revolution; the great German political thinkers, G. W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx; Harriet Jacobs, Africanus Horton and other figures in the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement; and certain twentieth-century figures inspired by Hegel, especially feminists like Simone de Beauvoir and post-colonial thinkers like Frantz Fanon.

Possible themes to be examined include:
鈥� The normative analysis of different systems of government
鈥� The ontological analysis of different systems of society
鈥� The relationship between natural science and social/political science
鈥� The explanation of historical change and historical progress
鈥� Critiques of slavery and arguments for its abolition
鈥� Analyses of patriarchy and the condition of women
鈥� Analyses of capitalism and the condition of the working class
鈥� Analyses of imperialism and colonialism
鈥� Orientalism and the emergence and development of thinking about 鈥渞ace鈥�