Classical Social Theories and Beyond

Graduate

A seminar on creative, critical, and reflexive modes of theoretical development and appropriation grounded in sections of classical social theory. Topics covered may include causality, power, justice, love, sexuality, the family, class, solidarity, religion, science, ideology, culture, state formation, and cosmopolitanism. Attention will be given to the discursive formation of the social sciences and epistemological, ontological, and normative debates.