Twentieth Century Political Thought

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course offers a survey of select thinkers in 20th century political thought, focusing on debates around three key concepts: (1) Democracy: what are the meaning, values, and core practices of mass democracy and democratic citizenship? (2) Capitalism and Justice: What role can/should capitalism or markets play in generating just, free, and equal political arrangements? (3) Resistance and Social (In)justice: What are inherited structures of domination and what form should resistance to them take? The course is writing-intensive.