SYC 514E Contemporary Political Theory Fall 2022-2023 PDF

DRAFT SYLLABUS --SUBJECT TO CHANGE **SYC 514E CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY** Fall 2022-2023. Tuesday, 9:30-12:30 **Office hours:** By appointment *This syllabus is subject to change or revision due to the need to make course adjustments based on the instructor's discretion*. **Course Descripti...

DRAFT SYLLABUS --SUBJECT TO CHANGE **SYC 514E CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY** Fall 2022-2023. Tuesday, 9:30-12:30 **Office hours:** By appointment *This syllabus is subject to change or revision due to the need to make course adjustments based on the instructor's discretion*. **Course Description** This course explores the main ideas and arguments of some of the most influential political thinkers of our time. The course investigates how these thinkers engage with and challenge the classical and modern traditions of political theory, and how they offer their own perspectives on the problems and possibilities of contemporary politics. The course critically compares and contrasts different theoretical frameworks and approaches to key political concepts and methods. The course covers a range of philosophical schools or movements in political theory, such as liberalism, conservatism, communitarianism, critical theory, radical theory, environmental theory and others. The course also examines the practical implications and applications of these competing frameworks and arguments in political theory. To this end, we address a number of relevant issues, such as the debates over individual, community, people, democracy, justice, solidarity, friendship, oppression and environment. **Course Goal / Learning Outcome** This course aims to provide a rigorous analysis of the main debates, theoretical assumptions, and different approaches to philosophical themes of politics. It also aims to enhance the appreciation of the complexity of political theory and the critical understanding of the development of political thought, by engaging with contemporary treatments of the same issues, as well as modern appropriations of different approaches. By the end of this course, students will be able to: 1\. Acquire a detailed knowledge of some of the political concepts, positions and arguments in the dominant political theory literature on the topics of the course. 2\. Understand how the theoretical positions on different political issues relate to each other. 3\. Examine closely and critically some of the political thoughts studied. 4\. Develop their ability to think independently about some of the political thoughts studied. 5\. Construct their own arguments, responding to but not merely reproducing the arguments of others. **Course Requirements and Grading** **This course is a seminar that requires extensive reading and active participation. You have the responsibility to finish all the assigned readings before each seminar session and to engage in the discussion of the material. This is essential for the success of the course and your learning experience.** **Course Requirements** **Attendance:** This course requires both attendances in class and participation in class. I will take attendance at the start of each class. Please make sure that I have marked your presence. You can only miss two classes without a valid reason; otherwise, your grade will suffer**. If you miss more than two classes without a valid reason, you will fail this course with a grade of FF (FAIL).** If you have a medical or personal emergency that prevents you from attending class, you need to show me official documentation. This will count as an \'excused\' absence. However, if you have a chronic medical condition or a personal crisis that causes you to miss many classes, you should drop this course and take it again when you can meet the course requirements. **1. Participation (10%)** **This course is designed as a seminar, which means that regular attendance, careful preparation, and active and thoughtful contributions are crucial. Your active class participation will be more effective if you have already engaged with the readings. This is a very reading-intensive course, so do not fall behind! You will be expected to have completed all the week's reading before each class and to come to class ready to discuss the readings in depth. Please be on time; class starts at 9.30 am.** **3. Oral Presentation (20%)** **One of the main objectives of this course is to develop the participants\' skills in oral communication and critical analysis. Therefore, each participant is expected to prepare and deliver presentations for every meeting. The participant will choose a class topic from the assigned text(s) and present it for 10-15 minutes. The presentation should include (a) a concise summary of the main arguments of the text section, (b) a clear connection between the text and the overall course material, and (c) one or two critical issues or comments about the text.** **4. Book Review: (%20)** The book review should be 2000-3000 words long (excluding the bibliography). **A book review is a type of academic writing that examines and evaluates a philosophical work. It should follow the APA style and be based on a book that is not in the course syllabus. A book review has five sections: an introduction, a summary, an analysis, an evaluation and a conclusion. Here are some guidelines for writing a book review:** **- The introduction should provide some background information on the author, the title, the context and the main purpose of the book. It should also include a thesis statement that summarizes the main point of the review.** **- The summary should give an overview of the main arguments and ideas of the book, without giving too much detail or quoting extensively. It should highlight the main claim and the supporting evidence of the book.** **- The analysis should explain how the author develops and supports their arguments, using examples from the text. It should also identify and discuss the key concepts, themes and issues that the book raises.** **- The evaluation should assess the strengths and weaknesses of the book, using relevant criteria such as clarity, coherence, originality, validity, relevance and significance. It should also compare and contrast the book with other works in the same field or genre.** **- The conclusion should restate the thesis statement and summarize the main findings of the review. It should also state the implications and contributions of the book to the field of political philosophy and to the current political situation.** **5. Final Paper (50%)** A term paper is a major assignment that requires students to conduct independent research and present their findings in a clear and persuasive way. The term paper should be 5000-6000 word long (excluding the bibliography) and should address a research question or problem that is relevant, complex and focused. The term paper should have the following components: \- Introduction: This section should introduce the research question or problem, explain why it is important and interesting, and provide an overview of the main argument and structure of the paper. \- Literature review: This section should review the existing literature on the topic, identify the main debates and gaps, and situate the paper\'s contribution within the scholarly context. \- Methodology: This section should explain the research strategy and design, justify the choice of methods and sources, and describe how the data was collected and analyzed. \- Analysis and discussion: This section should present and interpret the findings of the research, support the main argument with evidence and logic, and address possible counterarguments and limitations. \- Conclusion: This section should summarize the main points of the paper, restate the thesis statement, and discuss the implications and significance of the research. Before writing the term paper, students need to submit a research paper proposal that is 1000-1200 words long (excluding the bibliography) and includes a short bibliography. The proposal should state the research question or problem, explain the argumentative direction of the paper, and provide an outline of the main points. The proposal is due on the 10th week of the semester and counts for 20% of the final paper grade. **Course Readings** All required readings listed in the syllabus are uploaded to **İTÜ KOVAN.\ ** **Course Schedule** **Week 1. What is Political Theory, and why does it matter?** Anderson, E. 2015. "Moral Bias and Corrective Practices", *Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association*, (89), pp. 21--47 Barry, Brian 2002, "Why Political Science Needs Political Theory" *Scandinavian Political Studies*, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp.107-115 Brown, Wendy 2002. "What Is Political Theory?" *Political Theory* Vol. 30. No. 4. Special Issue: Thirtieth Anniversary, pp. 556-576 Dryzek, John S. Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips 2011. "Overview of Political Theory" in the *Oxford Handbook of Political Science* Robert E. Goodin ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Frazer, Elizabeth 2008. "Political theory and the boundaries of politics" in *Political Theory: methods and approaches.* David Leopold and Marc Stears, edts., Oxford University Press Jenco, Leigh K. Murad Idris, and Megan C. Thomas 2020. "Comparison, Connectivity, and Disconnection" in *The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory*. Oxford University Press. Larmore, C. 2013. "What Is Political Philosophy?", *Journal of Moral Philosophy,* 10(3), pp. 276--306 List, Christian and Laura Valentini 2016. "The Methodology of Political Theory" In Herman Cappelen, Tamar Szabó Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), *Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology*. Oxford University Press. Pp.525-554. McDermott, D. 2008. "Analytical Political Philosophy" in *Political Theory: methods and approaches.* David Leopold and Marc Stears, edts., Oxford University Press Parekh, Bhikhu 2000. "Theorizing Political Theory" in *Political Theory in Transition*, in *Political Theory in Transition* Noäl Sullivan ed. London: Routledge, pp. 242-259 Wolff, Jonathan 2018. *Method in Philosophy and Public Policy: Applied Philosophy versus engaged philosophy*. New York: Routledge. Chapter 1 **Week 2: Political Theory as Understanding and Thinking** **Required Reading** Baderin, Alice 2021. "The Continuity of Ethics and Political Theory" *The Journal of Politics,* Vol: 83, No:4. Berlin, Isaiah 1988. "Does Political Theory Still Exist?" In Concepts and Categories, ed. Henry Hardy Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Brown, Wendy, 2005. "At the Edge: The Future of Political Theory" In *Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics*. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Brownlee, K. and Z. Stemplowska 2017. "Thought Experiements" in *Methods in Analytical Political Theory*', in A. Blau ed., Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press Daniels, N. 1996. *Justice and Justification Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and Practice*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch.1 Dunn, John 1996. "*The History of Political Theory and other essays* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 11-38. Estlund, David 2011. "Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy" *Philosophy & Public Affairs*, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 207-237 Freeden, Michael 2013. *The Political Theory of Political Thinking: The Anatomy of a Practice*. Oxford University Press. Galston, W.A. 2010. "Realism in Political Theory", *European Journal of Political Theory*, 9(4), pp. 385--411. Grant, Ruth W. 2002. "What Is Political Theory?" *Political Theory* Vol. 30. No. 4. Special Issue: Thirtieth Anniversary pp. 577-595 Gunnell, John G. 2017. "Political Concepts and the Concept of the Political" *Teoria Polityki* No., pp. 187--201. Hall, Edward 2015. "How to do Realistic Political Theory (and why you might want to)" *European Journal of Political Theory* Vol.16, No :3 pp.654-664. Johnson, James 2014. "Models Among the Political Theorists" *American Journal of Political Science* Vol. 58. No. 3. Pp. 547-560 Lawford-Smith, H. 2013. "Understanding Political Feasibility", *Journal of Political Philosophy*, 21(3), p p. 243--259. Macintyre, Alasdair 1983. "The Indispensability of Political Theory." In *the Nature of* *Political Theory* D. Miller and L. Siendentop ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Olsthoorn, Johan 2017. "Conceptual Analysis" in *Methods in Analytical Political Theory*', in A. Blau ed., Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press Slavny, A. 2020. "Directed Reflective Equilibrium: Thought Experiments and How to Use Them", *Journal of Moral Philosophy,* 18(1), pp. 1--25. Southwood, N. 2016. "Does "Ought" Imply" Feasible"?", *Philosophy & Public Affairs,* 44(1), pp. 7--45. Valentini, Laura 2012. "Ideal vs. Non-Ideal Theory: a conceptual map." *Philosophy Compass*, 7 (9). pp. 654-664. Voegelin, Eric 1952. The *New Science of Politics*, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 1-26. Waldron, Jeremy 2016. *Political* *Political Theory: Essays on Institutions.* Harvard: Harvard University Press. Pp.1-23 Warren, Mark E. 1989. "What is Political Theory/Philosophy?" In *P.S. Political Science and Politics*, Vol. 22. No. 3 pp. 606-612 Williams, Bernard 2005. "Realism and Moralism in Political Theory" *In the Beginning was the Deed*, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 21--38. Wolin, Sheldon S. 1969. "Political Theory as a Vocation" *American Political Science Review* 63. Pp.1062-82. **Suggested Reading** Ball, Terence 1995. *Re-appraising Political Theory*. Oxford University Press. Balbus, I. C. 2010. *Governing Subjects: An Introduction to the Study of Politics*. New York, Routledge University Press. Benhabib, Seyla 1995. "The Strange Silence of Political Theory: Response," in *Political Theory*. 23(4) pp. 674-681. Brown, Wendy 2002. "What Is Political Theory?" *Political Theory* Vol. 30. No. 4. Special Issue: Thirtieth Anniversary, pp. 556-576 Connolly, William 1993. *Political Theory and Modernity* Cornell University Press Freeden, Michael 2014 "The 'Political Turn' in Political Theory" *Journal of Political Ideologies*, 19:1, 1-14, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.22-67 Germino, Dante 1963. "The Revival of Political Theory" *The Journal of Politics*, Vol. 25. No. 3. Pp. 437-460. Isaac, Jeffrey 1995. "The Strange Silence of Political Theory." In *Political Theory* 23(4), pp. 636-652. Hamlin, A. and Stemplowska, Z. 2012. "Theory, Ideal Theory and the Theory of Ideals", *Political Studies Review*, 10(1), pp. 48--62 Kiss, Elizabeth 1995. "The Strange Silence of Political Theory: Response," in *Political Theory*. 23(4) pp. 664-669. Iv Knight, C. 2017. "Reflective Equilibrium" in *Methods in Analytical Political Theory*', in A. Blau ed., Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 4. Mansbridge, Jane 2014. What is Political Science for? *Perspectives on Politics*, 12(1), pp. 8-17. Parel, Anthony and Ronald Keith 2003. *Comparative Political Philosophy: Studies Under the Upas Tree.* Lexington Books. Nagel, Thomas 1994. "The Value-Oriented Bias of Social Inquiry." Ch 36 *in Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. Mcintyre Cambridge: MIT Press. Thiele, Leslie Paul 1997. *Thinking Politics: Perspectives in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Political Theory* Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House Publishers. Taylor, Charles 1994. "Neutrality in Political Science." Ch 35 *in Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. Mcintyre Cambridge: MIT Press. Vincent, Andrew 2007. *The Nature of* *Political Theory* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Waldron, Jeremy 2012. "Political Political Theory: An Oxford Inaugural Lecture". *NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper* No. 12-26. Weber, Max 1946. "Politics as a Vocation." In *from Max Weber: Essays in Sociology*, H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 77­128. Weber, Max 1994. "Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy." Ch 34 in *in Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. Mcintyre Cambridge: MIT Press. **Week 3: Political Theory as Interpretation** **Required Reading** Almond, Gabriel 1988. "Separate Tables: Schools and Sects in Political Science" P.S. *Political Science and Politics* 828-842 1. Bevir, M. 2011. "The Contextual Approach", in *The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press* Blau, Adrian 2017. "Interpreting Texts" in *Methods in Analytical Political Theory*', A. Blau edt., Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press *Dallmayr,* Fred 2004. "Beyond Monologue: For a Comparative Political Theory" *Perpectives on Politics.* Vol:2. No: 2. Pp. 249-257. Estlund, David M. 2020. *Utopophobia: On the Limits (If Any) Of Political Philosophy.* New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Pp.3-81 Gerring, John 2006. "Normative Turn in Political Science" *Polity* Vol: 38 No. 1 pp.101-133. Gunnell, John G. 2011. *Political Theory and Social Science: Cutting Against the Grain.* New York: Palgrave pp.129-155. Habermas, Jurgen 1990. "Reconstruction and Interpretation in the Social Sciences", in *Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action*, trans. C. Leonhardt, S. Weber Nicholson, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp.21--42. Jenco, Lee 2007. "What Does Heaven Ever Say? A Methods-centered Approach to Cross-cultural Engagement" *American Political Science Review*, 101(4), pp. 741--755. 6. March, Andrew 2009. "What is Comparative Political Theory." *The Review of Politics*, Vol. 71. No. 4. Pp. 531--565. Martin, Michael 1994. "The Philosophical Importance of the Rosenthal Effect" in *Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. Mcintyre Cambridge: MIT Press. Rehfeld, Andrew 2010. "Offensive Political Theory." *Perspectives on Politics*, Vol. 8, No.2, pp. , 465-486. Skinner, Quentin 1969. "Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas" in *History and Theory 8* Taylor, Charles 1971. "Interpretation and the Sciences of Man" *The Review of Metaphysics* 25. No. 1. 3-51. Voegelin, Eric 1990. "Equivalences of Experiences and Symbolization in History" *The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin Vol:12.* Ellis Sandoz Baton Rouge, ed. LA: Louisiana State University Press. 115-33. Williams, Bernard 2006. "Political Philosophy and the Analytical Tradition" in *Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline* New Jersey: Princeton University Press **Suggested Reading:** Amadae, S. M. and B. Bueno de Mesquita 1999. "The Rochester School: The Origins of Positive Political Theory" *Annual Review of Political Science*, 2 (1), 269-295. Bleiker, Roland 2004. "Globalizing Political Theory." in *What is Political Theory*, Stephen. White and K. Moon. eds. London: Sage Publications. 7. Euben, Roxanne 2004. "Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices." in *What is Political Theory*, Stephen White and K. Moon ed. London: Sage Publications Follesdal. Dagfinn 1994. "Hermuneutics and the Hypothetico-Deductive Method." Ch15 *in Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. McIntyre Cambridge: Foucault, Michel 1982. The Archeology of Knowledge Pantheon Press. Geertz, Clifford "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture." Ch 14 in Martin & McIntyre. Godrej, Farah 2009. "Toward a Cosmopolitan Political Thought: The Hermeneutics of Interpreting the 'Other'" *Polity,* 41. 135--165 March, Andrew 2009. "What is Comparative Political Theory," *The Review of Politics,* Vol. 71. No. 4 pp. 531-565 Martin, Michael 1994. "Taylor on Interpretation and the Sciences of Man." Ch 17 in *in Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. McIntyre Cambridge: MIT Press O' Sullivan, Noël edt., 2000. *Political Theory in Transition*. London: Routledge Skinner, Quentin 2002. "Social Meaning' and the Explanation of Social Action" in *The Philosophy of History*, pp. 106-127. Watkins, J.W.N.1994 "Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences." in *Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. McIntyre Cambridge: MIT Press. Wolin, Sheldon S. 1968. "Paradigms and Political Theories." In *Politics and Experience*, Preston King and B.C. Parekh ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. **Week 4: The Methodological Foundations of Political Theory: Methodological Individualism and Behavioralism** **Required Reading** Alexander, Jeffrey 1987. *The Micro-Macro Link*, Berkeley: University of California Press. Coleman, J.S. 1986. "Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action" in *The American Journal of Sociology*, 91:6. 1309-1355. Easton, David 1979. *A Framework for Political Analysis*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press., Chapters 9 and 10. Elster, John 1982. "Marxism, Functionalism, and Game Theory: The Case for Methodological Individualism." *Theory and Society*, 11: 453--482. Hall, P. A. and R. C. Taylor 1996. "Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms" *Political Studies*, 44 (5), 936-957. Hodgson, G. M. 2007. "Meanings of Methodological Individualism" *Journal of Economic Methodology*, 14 (2), 211-226. Leslie, M. 1970. "In Defence of Anachronism" *Political Studies,* 18(4), pp. 433--447. Levine, A., Sober E. and Wright E. O. 1987. "Marxism and Methodological Individualism*"*. *New Left Review,* 162. 67-84 or in Derek Matravers & Jonathan E. Pike (eds.), *Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology*. London Routledge. List, Christian and Kai Spiekermann 2013. "Methodological Individualism and Holism in Political Science: A Reconciliation" *American Political Science Review*, 107: 629--642 Little, Daniel 2010. "Methodological Individualism" in *Encyclopedia of Political Theory*, Mark Bevier, ed. Sage. Lukes, Steven, 1968. "Methodological Individualism Reconsidered" *The British Journal of Sociology*, 19 (2): 119--129. Schumpeter, J. A. 1980. *Methodological Individualism*. Brussels: Institutum Europaeum. Skinner, B.F. 1953. *Science and Human Behavior* New York: The Free Press. Wahlke, J. 1979. "Pre-Behavioralism in Political Science". *American Political Science Review*, 73(1), 9-31. Zahle, Julie & Harold Kincaid 2019. "Why be a Methodological Individualist?" *Synthese* 196 (2):655-675 **Suggested Reading** Cohen, G.A. 1994. "Functional Explanations in Marxism" in *Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. McIntyre Cambridge: MIT Press Ch 24 Garfinkel, A. 1981. *Forms of Explanation*. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Goldstein, Leon 1958. "The Two Theses of Methodological Individualism" *The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science*, 9: 1--11. Hardin, Russel 1982. *Collective Action*. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Kincaid, H. 1997. *Individualism and the Unity of Science*. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Schumpeter, J. A. 1909. "On the Concept of Social Value" *The Quarterly Journal of Economics*, 23(2), 213-232. Stoker, Gerry and David Marsk (eds.). 2010. *Theory and Methods in Political Science*. New York: Palgrave. Udehn, L. 2001. *Methodological Individualism: Background, History, and Meaning*. London: Routledge. Watkins, J.W.N. 1952. "The Principle of Methodological Individualism." *The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science*, 3: 186--189. Watkins, J.W.N. 1955. "Methodological Individualism: A Reply." *Philosophy of Science*, 22: 58--62. **Week 5. Methodological Individualism and Rational Choice Theory** **Required Reading** Arrow, K. J. 1994. "Methodological Individualism and Social Knowledge" *American Economic Review,* 84 (2), 1-9. Bratman, Michael 2014. *Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together.* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.3-43 and 151-159 Austen-Smith, D. and J. S. Banks 1996. "Information Aggregation, Rationality, and the Condorcet Jury Theorem" *American Political Science Review,* 90: 34--45. Bossert, W. and J. A. Weymark 1996. "Utility in Social Choice." *Handbook of Utility Theory, Volume 2*. S. Barberà, P. J. Hammond and C. Seidel, eds. Boston: Kluwer. Bunge, Mario 1995. "The Poverty of Rational Choice Theory," in I.C. Jarvie and N. Laor, Chai, S. K. 2005. "Rational Choice: Positive, Normative, and Interpretive." Paper Presented at the *Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association*, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 12. 2005 Chapman, B. 2002. "Rational Aggregation." *Politics, Philosophy and Economics,* 1: 337--354. *Critical Rationalism, Metaphysics and Science* 1 Dordrecht: Kluwer:159-68 Dietrich, F. 2010. "The Aggregation of Propositional Attitudes: Towards a general theory." *Oxford Studies in Epistemology,* 3: 215--234. Elster, John 1994 "The Nature and Scope of Rational-Choice Explanation." in *Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. McIntyre Cambridge: MIT Press Kogel, Brian and Gerald Gaus 2017. Rational Choice Theory in *Methods in Analytical Political Theory*', in A. Blau ed., Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press List, C. and P. Pettit 2002. "Aggregating Sets of Judgments: An Impossibility Result" *Economics and Philosophy,* 18 (1): 89--110. List, C. 2012. "The Theory of Judgment Aggregation: An Introductory Review." *Synthese* 187. pp. 179--207. Olson, Mancur 1971. *The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups* Harvard: Harvard University Press. Ch.1-2 Przeworski, A. 1985. "Marxism and Rational Choice." *Politics & Society*, 14(4), 379- 409. Sen, Amartya K. 1977. "Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory" *Philosophy & Public Affairs 6.* (4): 317-34. **Suggested Reading** Arrow, K. J. 1951/1963. *Social Choice and Individual Values*. New York: Wiley. Bunge, Mario 1996. Finding Philosophy in Social Science New Haven: Yale University Press. Dagfinn, Follesdal 1994. "The Status of Rationality Assumptions in Interpretation and in the Explanation of Action" in *Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. McIntyre Cambridge: MIT Press Dietrich, F. 2007. "A Generalized Model of Judgment Aggregation." *Social Choice and Welfare,* 28: 529--565. Dryzek, J. and C. List 2003. "Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy: A Reconciliation" *British Journal of Political Science,* 33: 1--28. Elster, John 2000. "Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition." *American Political Science Review*, 94 (3), pp. 685-695. Eulau, Heinz 1962. "Segments of Political Science most Susceptible to Behavioristic Treatment," in *The Limits of Behavioralism in Political Science* James C. Charlesworth, ed., Philadelphia: The *American Academy of Political and Social Science.* Kincaid, Harold 1994. "Assessing Functional Explanations in the Social Sciences." in *Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science*, ed. Michael Martin and Lee C. McIntyre Cambridge: MIT Press Ch. 26 Kornhauser, L.A. 2008. "Aggregate Rationality in Adjudication and Legislation. Politics" *Philosophy & Economics*, 7 (1), 5-27. Kydd, A. H. 2008. "Methodological Individualism and Rational Choice". In *The Oxford Handbook of International Relations*. C. Reus‐Smit and D. Snidal, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 425-443. Laver, M. 1997. *Private Desires, Political Action: An Invitation to the Politics of Rational Choice*. London: Sage. Little, Daniel 2014. "Actor-Centered Sociology and the New Pragmatism," in *Individualism, Holism, Explanation and Emergence*. Julie Zahle and Finn Collin, eds., Springer McLean, I. and A. B. Urken 1995. *Classics of Social Choice*. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Roberts, K. 1995. "Valued Opinions or Opinionated Values: The Double Aggregation Problem" *Choice, Welfare and Development: A Festschrift in Honour of Amartya Sen*. K. Basu, P. K. Pattanaik, and K. Suzumura eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 141--165. Russell, Kirk 1962. "Segments of Political Science Not Amenable to Behavioristic Treatment," in *The Limits of Behavioralism in Political Science* James C. Charlesworth, ed., Philadelphia: The American Academy of Political and Social Science. Sen, A. K. 1998. "The Possibility of Social Choice." *Nobel lecture*, December 8. 1998. Stockholm. Stone, Deborah 1997. *Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making*, W.W. Norton: Ch. 10. **Week** **6: Methodological Holism** **Required Reading** Epstein, B. 2015. *The Ant Trap. Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 133-250. Haslanger, S. 2016. "What is a (social) structural explanation?" *Philosophical Studies,* 173 (1), pp. 113--130. Jackson, Frank & Philip Pettit 1992. "Structural Explanation in Social Theory." in *Reduction, Explanation and Realism*, D. Charles and K. Lennon eds., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 97--131. List, C. and K. Spiekermann 2013. "Methodological Individualism and Holism in Political Science: A Reconciliation." *American Political Science Review*, 107 (04), 629-643. Marchionni, C. 2007. "Explanatory Pluralism and Complementarity." *Philosophy of the Social Sciences*, 38 (3): 314--333. Mayntz, R. 2004. "Mechanisms in the Analysis of Social Macro-Phenomena." *Philosophy of the Social Sciences*, 34 (2): 237--259. Rios, D. 2005. "Social Complexity and the Micro-Macro Link." *Current Sociology*, 53 (5): 773--559. Tollefsen, D. P. 2002. "Collective Intentionality and the Social Sciences." *Philosophy of the Social Sciences*, 32 (1): 25--50. Tuomela, Raimo 2007. *The Philosophy of Sociality: The Shared Point of View*, New York: Oxford University Press. Zahle, J. 2014. "Holism, Emergence and the Crucial Distinction." in *Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate. Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science, J.* Zahle and F. Collin eds., Dordrecht: Springer. 177--196. **Suggested Reading** Cohen, G. A. 1982. "Functional explanation: Reply to Elster." *Political Studies*, 28 (1): 129--135. Sangiovanni, A. 2018. "Structural Injustice and Individual Responsibility", *Journal of Social Philosophy*, 49 (3), pp. 461--483. Garfinkel, A. 1981. *Forms of Explanation*, New Haven: Yale University Press. James, S. 1984. *The Content of Social Explanation*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kaidesoja, T. 2013. "Overcoming the Biases in Micro Foundationalism: Social Mechanisms and Collective Agents." *Philosophy of the Social Sciences*, 43 (3): 301--322. Kincaid, H. 2009. "Causation in the Social Sciences." in *The Oxford Handbook of Causation*, H. Beebee, C. Hitchcock, and P. Menzies eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 726--743. List, C. and P. Pettit 2011. "Introduction." in *Group Agency. The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents*, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Little, Daniel 2016. *New Directions in the Philosophy of Social Science* Rowman & Littlefield. O'Neill, J., (ed.),1973. *Modes of Individualism and Collectivism*, London: Heinemann. Sawyer, R. K. 2005. *Social Emergence. Societies as Complex Systems*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Van Bouwel, J. 2008. "Understanding in political science: The plurality of epistemic interests" In *Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives.* Henk De Regt, Sabina Leonelli & Kai Eigner (eds.), University of Pittsburgh Press. Ylikoski, P. 2014. "Rethinking Micro-Macro Relations." in *Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate. Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science,* J. Zahle and F. Collin eds., Dordrecht: Springer. 117--135. Zahle, J. 2013. "Holism, in Social Sciences." in *Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences*, B. Kaldis edt., London: Sage Publications, pp. 425--430. Zahle, J. and F. Collin eds., 2014. *Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate. Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science.* Dordrecht: Springer. **Week 7: The Normative Foundations of Political Theory: Contemporary Liberal Perspectives** **Required Reading** Arneson, Richard J. 2003. Liberal Neutrality on the Good: An Autopsy" in George Klosko, *Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory.* Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Dworkin, Ronald 1986. "Liberalism" in *A Matter of Principle,* Harvard: Harvard University Press. Freeden, Michael 1978. *The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform.* Oxford: Clarendon Press. Galston, William 1995. "Two Concepts of Liberalism," *Ethics*, 105: 516--34. Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. "The Diversity of Comprehensive Liberalisms" in Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas eds., *The Handbook of Political Theory*. London: Sage, pp.100--114. Gauthier, David 1995. "Public Reason" *Social Philosophy and Policy.* 12: 19--42. Gray, John 1994. "After the New Liberalism" *Social Research* Vol. 61. No. 3. pp. 719-735 Gray, John 1995. "Agnostic Liberalism" in *Enlightenment's Wake.* London: Routledge. Greenawalt, Kent 2016. *From the Bottom-Up Selected Essays.* New York: Oxford University Press. pp.1-27 Guttman, Amy 2003. "Communitarian Critics of Liberalism" In Derek Matravers & Jonathan E. Pike eds., *Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology*. London: Routledge. pp. 308 -- 322. Nagel, Thomas 1991. *Equality and Partiality* Oxford University Press. Peck, Jamie. 2010. *Constructions of Neoliberal Reason.* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 1. pp. 1-37. Rawls, John 1996. *Political Liberalism*. New York: Columbia University Press. Shklar, Judith 1989. "The Liberalism of Fear" in Nancy L. Rosenblum ed. *Liberalism and the Moral Life*. London: Harvard University Press. Skinner, Quentin 1998. *Liberty Before Liberalism* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Waldron, Jeremy 1987. "Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism" *The Philosophical Quarterly* Vol. 37. No. 147 pp. 127-150. **Suggested Reading** Cohen, G. A. 1997. "Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice" *Philosophy and Public Affairs* 26 (1):3-30 Evans, M. (ed.) 2001. *The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism.* Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Galston, William 1991. *Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State* Cambridge University Press Hayek, F.A. 1978. "Liberalism" in *New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas.* London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Keynes, John Maynard 2004. "Liberal and Republican Conceptions of Freedom" in D. Weinstock and C. Nadeau eds., *Republicanism: History, Theory, and Practice.* London: Frank Cass, 96--119. Mack, Eric and Gerald F. Gaus 2004. "Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism: The Liberty Tradition," in Gerald F. Gaus & Chandran Kukathas eds., *The Handbook of Political Theory* London: Sage, 115--130. Rawls, John 1997. "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" *The University of Chicago Law Review*, Vol. 64. No. 3 pp. 765-807. Riker, W. 1982. *Liberalism Against Populism*. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co. pp.1-16 and 233-249. Sandel, Michael, (ed.), 1984 *Liberalism and its Critics* New York: NYU Press **Book Review paper due to** **Week 8: Liberal Perspectives on Individuality** **Required Reading** Appiah, Kwame 2001. "Liberalism, Individuality and Identity" *Critical Inquiry*, 27(2): 305--332. Bird, Colin 1999. *The Myth of Liberal Individualism* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Copp, David 1984. "What Collectives are: Agency, Individualism and Legal Theory" *Dialogue*, 23: 249--270. Coleman, Janet 1996. *The Individual in Political Theory and Practice.* Clarendon Press. Dworkin, Gerald 1988. *The Theory and Practice of Autonomy* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Feinberg, Joel 1984. *The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Volume 1: Harm to Others*. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Fumurescu, Alin 2013. *Compromise -- A Political and Philosophical History* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chp. 4. Gaus, Gerald F. 1983. *The Modern Liberal Theory of Man*. New York: St. Martin's Press Krause, Sharon 2015. *Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Loury, Glenn 1996. "Individualism before Multiculturalism" *Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy*, Vol. 19. No. 3. Lukes, Steven 1971. "The Meanings of Individualism" *Journal of the History of Ideas*. Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 45-66. Mansbridge, Jane 2015. "A Minimalist Definition of Deliberation" in *Deliberation and Development: Rethinking the role of voice and collective action in unequal societies.* Patrick Heller and Vijayendra Rao eds., Washington: World Bank Press. Morris, Colin 1989. *The Discovery of the Individual: 1050 -1200* London: SPCK, (Preface and Chapter 1.) Siedentop, Larry 2014. *Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism* London: Penguin. Preface and Chapter 1. Taylor, Charles 1992. *Ethics of Authenticity.* Harvard: Harvard University Press. **Suggested Reading** Berlin, Isaiah 1969. 'Two Concepts of Liberty,' in *Four Essays on Liberty*, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 118--72. Brown, Gillian 1990. *Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America*. Berkeley: University of California Press. Dilcher, Gerhard 1996. "The City Community as an Instance in the European Process of Individualization" In *the Individual in Political Theory and Practice*, Janet Coleman, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 281-301. Hayek, F.A. 1960. *The Constitution of Liberty*, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Humphrey, Nicholas and Daniel C. Dennett 1989. "Speaking for Ourselves: An assessment of multiple personality disorder" *Raritan,* 9:1. 68-98. Sandel, M. 1984. "The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self" *Political Theory* Vol: 2 No: 1 pp. 81-96 Sumner, William Graham 2017. *What Social Classes Owe Each Other* CreateSpace: Independent Publishing Platform. Taylor, Charles 1989. *Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. **Week 9: Political Conservative Perspectives** **Required Reading** Bloom, Allan 1987. *The Closing of the American Mind,* New York: Simon & Schuster. Brennan, Geoffrey and Alan Hamlin 2004. "Analytic Conservatism" *British Journal of Political Science*.Vol:34, No:4. Pp.675-691. Cohen, G.A. 2011. "Rescuing Conservatism." in *Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon*, R. Jay Wallace, Rahul Kumar and Samuel Freeman eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press 203--230. Freeden, Michael 1995. *Ideologies and Political Theories: A Conceptual Approaches* Chs. 8-10. Huntington, Samuel P. 1957. "Conservatism as an Ideology" *American Political Science Review* Vol 51, pp. 454-473. Kelly, Richard and Robert Crowcroft 2012. *"*From Burke to Burkha: Conservatism Multiculturalism and the Big Society" *Political Quarterly.* 83. 4. pp. 786-91. Nisbet, Robert 1986. *Conservatism.* Milton Keynes: Open University Press. Oakeshott, Michael 1991. "On Being Conservative" in *Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays* Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. Russell, Kirk 1953. *The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot,* New York: Gateway Editions. "The Idea of Conservatism" and "Conservatives Promise" Scruton, Roger 2002. *The Meaning of Conservatism,* South Bend: St. Augustine\'s Press, Chps. **Suggested Reading** Burke, Edmund 1790. *Reflections on the Revolution in France* Oxford World Classics edition, pp. 3-80 Gray, John 2010. *Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings,* Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin. Gottfried, Paul and Thomas Fleming 1988. *The Conservative Movement*, Twayne Publisher. King, Desmond 1987. *The New Right Politics, Markets and Citizenship* London: Macmillan Education. Nozick, R. 1974. *Anarchy, State and Utopia*, New York: Basic Books. pp. 149-182 Pocock, J. 1999. *Barbarism and Religion* Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Scruton, Roger 2015. *How to be a Conservative.* London: Bloomsbury Scruton, Roger 1980. "The Conservative Attitude" in *The Meaning of Conservatism*, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Strauss, Leo 1950. "Natural Right and the Historical Approach." *Review of Politics* 12(4), 422-442. Strauss, Leo 1968. "What is Liberal Education?" In *Liberalism Ancient and Modern*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Viereck, P. 2009. *Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology*, New Jersey: Transaction. Viereck, P. 2005. *Conservative Thinkers. From John Adams to Winston Churchill*. New Jersey: Transcation. **Week 10. Contemporary Republican and Communitarian Perspectives** **Required Reading** Buchanan, Allen 1989. "Assessing the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism." *Ethics* Vol. 99. No. 4. pp. 852-882 Dewey, John 1954. *The Public and Its Problems* New York: Swallow Press. Dworkin, Ronald 1989. "Liberal Community" *California Law Review*, 77: pp. 479--504. Etzioni, Amitai 2014. "Communitarianism Revisited" *Journal of Political Ideologies*, Vol. 19. No. 3. 241--260. Frazer, Elizabeth 1991. The *Problems of Communitarian Politics*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Mason, A. 2000. *Community, Solidarity and Belonging: Levels of Community and their Normative Significance.* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Michelman, Frank 1988. "Law\'s Republic" *Yale Law Journal* Volume 97. Number 8. MacIntyre, Alasdair 1984. *After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory.* 2d ed. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. Chs. 14-17. Pettit, Philip 2000. *Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government*. London: Oxford University Press. Putnam, Robert D. 2000. *Bowling Alone*: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. London: Simon and Schuster. Sandel, Michael 1984. "The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self" *Political Theory* Vol. 12. No. 1 pp. 81-96 Tams, H. 1998. *Communitarianism: A New Agenda for Politics and Citizenship*, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Taylor, Charles 2003. "Cross Purposes: The Liberal Communitarian Debate" In Derek Matravers & Jonathan E. Pike eds., *Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology*. London Routledge. Walzer, Michael 1994. *Thick and Thin.* Notre-Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. **Suggested Reading** Avineri, S. and A. De-Shalit 1992. *Communitarianism and Individualism*, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Bellah, R. 1985. *Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life* Berkeley: University of California Press. Bell, Daniel A. 1993. *Communitarianism and Its Critics*, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Bell, Daniel A. 1995. "A Communitarian Critique of Authoritarianism." *Society*, 32(5): pp.38--43. Bell, Daniel A. 2005. "A Communitarian Critique of Liberalism" *Analyse & Kritik* 27 pp. 215--238. Caney, S. 1992. "Liberalism and Communitarianism: A Misconceived Debate" *Political Studies*, 40: 273--90. Chan, J. 2014. *Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times*. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Ehrenhalt, A. 1999. "Community and the Corner Store: Retrieving Human-Scale Commerce" *The Responsive Community*, 9(4): 30--39. Etzioni, Amitai 1995. *New Communitarian Thinking*. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Etzioni, Amitai 1995. *The Spirit of Community*. New York: Crown Publishers, Macintyre, Alasdair 1988. *Whose Justice? Which Rationality?* Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Mulhall, Stephen, and Adam Swift 1996. *Liberals and Communitarians*. London: Wiley-Blackwell. Putnam, Robert D. 2004. *Better Together: Restoring the American Community* London: Simon and Schuster. Sunstein, Cass 1988. "Beyond the Republican Revival" *Yale Law Journal* 97. 1539 Taylor, Charles 1979. "What's Wrong with Negative Liberty" in *The Idea of Freedom*, A. Ryan ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press: 175--93. **Week 11. Communitarian Perspectives on *Friendship, Solidarity and People*** **Friendship: Required Reading** Aristotle 1991. *Nicomachean Ethics* (Books VIII and IX). in *Other Selves*: *Philosophers on Friendship*, M. Pakaluk. ed. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company. Pp. 27-68 Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2004. "Rethinking Strangeness: From Structures in Space to Discourses in Civil Society" *Thesis Eleven* No 79, 87--104. Devere, Heather and Graham M. Smith 2010. "Friendship and Politics" *Political Studies Review* 8 (3): 341--356. Kierkegaard, Soren 1991. "You Shall Love Your *Neighbor"* in *Other Selves*. in *Other Selves*: *Philosophers on Friendship*, M. Pakaluk. ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. pp. 233-247. Lewis, C. S. 1993. "Friendship---The Least Necessary Love" in *Friendship: A Philosophical Reader,* N. Badhwar. ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Pp. 39-47 Mallory, Peter 2012. "Political Friendship in the era of the Social: Theorizing Personal Relations with Alexis de Tocqueville" *Journal of Classical Sociology* 1 2(1) Telfer, Elizabeth 1991 "Friendship" in *Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship M.* Pakaluk, *edt.,* Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company pp. 129-145. Pahl, R. 2000. *On Friendship*. London: Polity Press. - Chapter 3 'What is friendship?' pp. 13-44. Schwartz, Daniel 2007. "Friendship as a Reason for Equality" *Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.* Vol. 10. No. 2. 167--180. Schwarzenbach, Sibyl 2005. "Democracy and Friendship." *Journal of Social Philosophy* 36 (2): 233-254. **Suggested Reading** Aelred of Rievaulx 1991. "Spiritual Friendship." in *Other Selves*: *Philosophers on Friendship*, Arendt, Hannah 1955. "On Humanity in Dark Times: Thoughts on Lessing" Pp. 3-31 in *Men in Dark Times*. New York: Harcourt Brace. Foucault, Michel 1997. "Friendship as a Way of Life" in *Michel Foucault:* *Ethics, Subjectivity, and Truth*, Paul Rabinow edt., New York: The Free Press. Pp. 135-40 Hochschild, Arlie 2003. "The Commodity Frontier." in *The Commercialization of Intimate Life.* Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Pp.30-44. Immanuel, Kant 1991. "Lecture on Friendship" in *Other Selves*. in *Other Selves*: *Philosophers on Friendship*, M. Pakaluk, ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. Simmel, Georg 1971. *The Stranger. in On Individuality and Social Forms,* D. N. Levine. ed. Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 143-179. Wittel, Andreas 2001. "Toward a Network Sociality." *Theory, Culture & Society* 18 (6): 51--76. **People: Required Reading** Arendt, Hannah 1998. *The Human Condition* University of Chicago Press. Ch 2. Canovan, Margaret 2008. "The People" *The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory* John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dewey, John and Melvin L Rogers 2012. *The Public and Its Problems: **An Essay in Political Inquiry*****.** Penn State University Press. Chaps. I-III Douglas, Bruce 1980. "The Common Good and the Public Interest\" *Political Theory* Vol: 8 No. 1 pp. 103-117. Habermas, Jurgen 1997. "Popular Sovereignty as Procedure." in *Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics* James Bohman and William Rehg, eds., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Morgan, Edmund 1988. *Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America*, New York: Norton, chap. 11 Nasstrom, Sofia 2007. "The Legitimacy of the People." *Political Theory,* 35.5, pp. 524-58 Schmid, Hans Bernhard 2023. *We, together: The Social Ontology of Us.* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chp.1 **Skinner, Quentin and Richard Bourke** 2016. *Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tuck, Richard 2016. *The Sleeping Sovereign:* *The Invention of Modern Democracy.* Cambridge University Press. Warner, Michael 2002. "Publics and Counter Publics" in *Public Culture,* 14.1 pp. 49-90 **Suggested Reading** Bodin, Jean 1992. *On Sovereignty* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Derrida, Jacques 2001. *On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness*, London & NY: Routledge, Elshtain, Jean Bethke 2006. *Sovereignty:* *God, State and Self*. New York: Basic Books Frank, Jason 2010. *Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Post-revolutionary America*. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, chaps. 1 & 3. Habermas, Jurgen 1994. "Three Normative Models of Democracy" *Constellations* 1 (1): pp.1-10. Habermas, Jurgen 2001 "Constitutional Democracy: A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles?" *Political Theory*, 2:.6 pp. 766--781 Habermas, Jurgen 1989. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: *An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society*. London: Polity Press, Hinsley, F. H. 1986. *Sovereignty,* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Honig, Bonnie 2001. "Dead Rights, Live Futures: A Reply to Habermas's 'Constitutional Democracy'." *Political Theory*, 29:6 pp. 792-805 Lippmann, Walter 1933. *Public Opinion* New York, Harcourt. Brace and Company, Sanders, Lynn 1997. "Against Deliberation." *Political Theory* 25.3: 347-76 Schmitt, Carl 2006. *Political Theology: Four chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty* George Schwab ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press ***Solidarity:* Required Reading** Appiah, Kwame 2006. *Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.* New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Chps.2-4. Benhabib, Seyla 2008. *Another Cosmopolitanism.* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Calhoun, Craig J. 2002. "Imagining Solidarity: Cosmopolitanism, Constitutional Patriotism and the Public Sphere" *Public Culture Vol: 14. No: 2. pp.* 147‐171. Coulthard, Glen & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2016. "Grounded Normativity/Place‐Based Solidarity" American *Quarterly* 68. No. 2. pp. 249‐255. Dobson, Andrew 2006. "Thick Cosmopolitanism" *Political Studies,* 54. 165-184. Gould, Carol 2007. "Transnational Solidarities" *Journal of Social Philosophy*, Vol. 38 No. 1. 148--164. Habermas, Jurgen 1990. "Justice and Solidarity: On the discussion concerning stage 6." In: T. E. Wren (ed.), *The Moral Domain.* Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 224-251. Harvey, Jean 2007. "Moral Solidarity and Empathetic Understanding: The Moral Value and Scope of the Relationship" *Journal of Social Philosophy,* Vol: 38. No. 1: 22 Kolers, Avery 2012. "Dynamics of Solidarity" *Journal of Political Philosophy,* 20. No. 4: 365‐383. Meulen, R. and R. Houtepen 2012. "Solidarity" in *Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics,* R. Chadwick ed., Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 224--251. Sangiovanni, Andrea 2016. "Solidarity as Joint Action" *Journal of Applied Philosophy* Vol. 34. No. 4. 11 340-359. Scholz, Sally 2009. *Political Solidarit*y Penn State University Press. pp. 1‐112. Waldron, Jeremy 2000. "What is Cosmopolitan?" *The Journal of Political Philosophy* 8. pp. 227-243 Young, Iris M. 2004. "Responsibility and Global Labour Justice" *Journal of Political Philosophy,* Vol:12. N: 4. pp. 365--388 Zhao, Michael 2019. "Solidarity, Fate-Sharing and Community" *Philosopher's Imprint,* Vol: 19. No: 46. pp.1-13. **Suggested Reading** Bommarito, Nicolas 2015. "Private Solidarity", *Ethical Theory and Moral Practice* Vo: 19. no. 2 pp 445--455 Caney, Simon 2005. *Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chatterton, Paul, David Featherstone, and Paul Routledge 2013. "Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen: Antagonism, the Commons, and Solidarity." *Antipode* 45. no 3: 602‐620. Habermas, Jürgen 1997. "Kant's Idea of Perpetual Peace, with the Benefit of Two Hundred Years" in *Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal* James Bohman and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann eds. Boston: MIT Press. Habermas, Jürgen 2006. *The Divided West* Cambridge: Polity Press, Habermas, Jurgen 2013. "Democracy, Solidarity, and the European Crisis" lecture delivered in Leuven Halev, Jeff S. 2008. "Democracy, Solidarity, and Post‐nationalism" *Political Studies* 56: 604‐628. Kaldor, Mary 2003. *Global Civil Society: An Answer to War* Cambridge: Polity Press. Kant, Immanuel 1994. *Political Writings*, trans. H.B Nisbet Hans Reiss ed. Cambridge University Press, Kolers, Avery 2014. "The Priority of Solidarity to Justice", *The Journal of Applied Philosophy*, Vol: 31 No: 4 pp. 420--433. Kolers, Avery 2018. "Solidarity as Environmental Justice in Brownfields Remediation', *Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy* 21. no 5 pp. 554‐569. Krishnamurthy, Meena 2013. "Political Solidarity, Justice, and Public Health." *Public Health Ethics* 6. no. 2: pp. 129‐141. Miller, David 2007. *National Responsibility and Global Justice* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Porter, G., J. Welsh Brown. & P.S. Chasek 2000. "The Emergence of Global Environmental Politics." in *Global Environmental Politics*, Porter, G., Welsh Brown, J. & Chasek, P.S., ed. Boulder CO: Westview Press. Scholz, Sally 2015. "Seeking Solidarity." *Philosophy Compass* 10. no. 10: pp. 725‐735. Young, Iris M. 2011. *Responsibility for Justice.* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wilde, Lawrence 2013. *Global Solidarity* Edinburgh University Pres pp. 237‐254. **Week 12. Critical Political Theory** **Required Reading** Adorno, Theodor W. 2005. "Critique," in *Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords*, New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 281-288 Benhabib, Seyla 1986. *Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory* New York: Columbia University Press. Bohman, James 2005. "Critical Theory." *Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy*, Butler, Judith 1993. *Bodies that Matter: on the Discursive Limits of Sex*, New York & London: Routledge, chp "Introduction" and "Bodies that Matter" Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chambers, S. 2004. 'The Politics of Critical Theory', in *The Cambridge companion to Critical Theory. Cambridge*: Cambridge University Press Forst, Rainer 2011. "The Basic Right to Justification: Toward a constructivist conception of human rights" In the *Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice.* Columbia University Press. Habermas, J. 1989. "The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society" in *Critical Theory and Society: a reader*. New York: Routledge, pp. 292--313. Honneth, Axel 2007. *Disrespect the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory*. London: Polity. Pp.63-80. Horkheimer, Max \[1937\] 1982. "Traditional and Critical Theory." In *Critical Theory: Selected Essays.* New York: Continuum, pp. 188--243. Kompridis, Nikolas 2011. *Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future*. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press. Koselleck, Reinhart 2000. *Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society.* Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Masquelier, Charles 2013. "Critical Theory and Contemporary Social Movements: Conceptualizing Resistance in the Neoliberal Age" *European Journal of Social Theory* 16: 395-412. Nichols, Robert 2020. *Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory* Duke University Press. Okin, Susan 1989. *Justice, Gender and the Family* New York: Basic Books. Shelby, Tommie 2003. "Ideology, Racism, and Critical Social Theory" *Philosophical Forum* 34(2): pp.153 -- 188. Tully, J. 2002. "Political Philosophy as a Critical Activity", *Political Theory,* 30(4), pp. 533--555. **Suggested Reading** Allen, Amy 2013. *The Politics of Ourselves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory* New York: Columbia University Press. Arendt, Hannah 1994. "Understanding and Politics (The Difficulties of Understanding)", in *Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism* New York: Schocken, 307-327. Butler, Judith 2012. "What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault's Virtue," in *The Political: Blackwell readings in continental philosophy* ed. David Ingram. Blackwell Publ. pp. 212-226. Calhoun, C.J. 1995. "Rethinking Critical Theory", in *Critical Social Theory: culture, history, and the challenge of difference*. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. Foucault, Michel 1982. "The Subject and Power" *Critical Inquiry*, Vol. 8. No. 4. pp. 777-795. Foucault, Michel 1994. "The Ethics of the Concern for the Self as a Practice of Freedom," in *Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth*, *Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984.* Vol. I, ed. Paul Rabinow New York: The New Press, pp. 281-302. Foucault, Michel 1997. "What is Critique?" and "What is Enlightenment?" in *The Politics of Truth*, ed. Sylvère Lotringer Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 1. 41-82. Pp. 97-120. Geuss, Raymond 1981. *The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Habermas, Jurgen 1995. "Reconciliation through the Public Use of Reason: Remarks on *Constellations* 1 (2): 255-269 Honneth, Axel 1991. *The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory*. Cambridge, Ma., MIT Press. Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno, 1987. "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" in *Dialectic of Enlightenment*, John Cummings, trans. New York: Continuum. Jaeggi, Rahel 2009. "Rethinking Ideology." In *New Waves in* *Political Philosophy.* Ed. Boudewijn Paul de Bruin and Christopher F. Zurn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Ingram, David and Julia Simon-Ingram, 2002. *Critical Theory: The Essential Readings*, Paragon. Kant, Immanuel 2006. *Critique of the Power of Judgment*, Paul Guyer, edt., Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews, trans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-230. Phillips, Anne 1998. "Democracy and Representation: Or, Why Should it Matter Who Our Representatives Are?" In *Feminism and Politics* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Williams, Raymond 1985. "Criticism," in *Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society* New York: Oxford University Press, 84-86 Zerilli, Linda M. G. 2005. "We Feel Our Freedom: Imagination and Judgment in the Thought of Hannah Arendt," *Political Theory* 33. no. 2 (April 2005): 158-188. **Week 13. Radical Political Theory** **Required Reading** Allen, Amy 2008. "Rationalizing Oppression," in *Journal of Power*, 1 (1), pp. 51--65. Balibar, É. 2002. "Three Concepts of Politics: Emancipation, Transformation, Civility" In *Politics and the Other Scene* É. Balibar, ed. London & New York: Verso. pp. 1-39. Castoriadis, Cornelius 1997. "Marxism and Revolutionary Theory," "The Social Imaginary and Institution," and "Radical Imagination and the Social Instituting Imaginary" in *The Castoriadis Reader*, ed. David Ames Curtis Malden MA: Blackwell, 139-217. 319-337. Cohen, G. A. 2009. *Why Not Socialism?* Princeton University Press. Chrostowska, S. D. and James D. Ingram 2017. *Political Uses of Utopia New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives.* New York: Columbia University. Pp.179-219. Critchley, Simon 2005. "True Democracy: Marx, political subjectivity and anarchic meta-politics." In *Radical Democracy - Politics between Abundance and Lack* L. Tønder, & L. Thomassen, edt., Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press. pp. 219-235. Cudd, Ann 2006. *Analyzing Oppression*. 'Oppression: The Fundamental Injustice of Social Institutions.' Pp. 3--27 New York: Oxford University Press. Dean, Jodi 2009. "Democracy: A knot of hope and despair." In *Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics.* Durham: Duke University Press. Gourevitch, Alex 2018. "The Right to Strike: A Radical View." *American Political Science Review* 112: pp. 905-917 Graeber, David 2002. "The New Anarchists" *New Left Review* 13. Hay, Carol 2011. "The Obligation to Resist Oppression", in *Journal of Social Philosophy*, 42(1), 2011, pp. 21-45. Kalyvas, Andreas 2019. "Democracy and the Poor: Prolegomena to a Radical Theory of Democracy." *Constellations*, 26:4. Laclau, Ernesto 2005. \"The Future of Radical Democracy.\" In *Radical Democracy: politics between Abundance and Lack* L. Tønder, & L. Thomassen, ed. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press. pp. 256-262. MacKinnon, Catharine A. 1988. *Feminism Unmodified: Discourses of Life and Law* Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Medina, J. 2013. "Active Ignorance, Epistemic Others, and Epistemic Friction" in *The Epistemology of Resistance*: Gender and racial oppression, epistemic injustice, and resistant imaginations. New York: Oxford University Press. Ch.1 Young, Iris Marion 1990. "Five Faces of Oppression" in *Justice and the Politics of Difference*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 39--65. **Suggested Reading** Arendt, Hannah 1994. "Freedom and Politics: A Lecture," *Chicago Review* 14. no. 1. Pp. 28-46 Blaug. Ricardo 1999. *Democracy, Real and Ideal; Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics.* Albany: State University of New York Press. Fanon, Frantz 1986. "By Way of Conclusion." In *Black Skin, White Masks Pluto Press.* Gordon, Uri 2008. *Anarchy Alive! Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory* London, Pluto Press, Introduction and, chs. 1, 2, 4. 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"Public Space as Emancipation: Meditations on Anarchism, Radical Democracy, Neoliberalism and Violence" *Antipode* 43 (2): pp. 525--562 Taylor, Michael 1982. *Selections from Community, Anarchy and Liberty* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-10. 25-38. Nail, Thomas 2010. "Constructivism and the Future Anterior of Radical Politics." *Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies*, (1): pp. 73-94 Wolff, Robert Paul 1998. "Beyond the Legitimate State" In *Defense of Anarchism*. University of California Press. **Week 14. Environmental Political Theory** **Required Reading:** Barry, John 2014. "Green Political Theory" in *Political Ideologies: An Introduction* V. Geoghegan, & R. Wilford Eds, London: Routledge. pp. 153-178. Carter, Alan, A. 2013. *Radical Green Political Theory* London: Routledge. De-Shalit, Avineri 2000. The *Environment: Between Theory and Practice* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dobson, Andrew 2007. *Green Political Thought* London: Routledge. 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Radcliffe, J. 2000. *Green Politics: Dictatorship or Democracy?* London: Palgrave Macmillan Schlosberg, David 2003. "The Justice of Environmental Justice: Reconciling Equity, Recognition, and Participation in a Political Movement." In *Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice*. A. Light and A De-Shalit ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 77-106. Shrader-Frechette, Kristin 2002. *Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Shue, Henry 1999. "Global Environment and International Inequality", *International Affairs* vol.75 no.3. pp.531-545. Toke, D. 2000. *Green Politics and Neo-Liberalism* London: Palgrave Macmillan Gardiner, Stephen and Catriona McKinnon 2020. "The Justice and Legitimacy of Geoengineering" *Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy* 23 (5):557-563 **Suggested Reading** Barry, J. 2004. "From Environmental Politics to the Politics of the Environment: The Pacification and Normalization of Environmentalism?" in *The End of Environmentalism*? Y. Levy, & M Wissenburg eds., London: Routledge Barry, John 2006. "Towards a Concrete Utopian Model of Green Political Economy: From Economic Growth and Ecological Modernization to Economic Security" *Post Autistics Economics Review* 36. 4 Beeson, M. 2010. The coming of environmental authoritarianism. *Environmental politics*, 19 (2), pp.276-294. Caney, Simon 2014 "Two Kinds of Climate Justice: Avoiding Harm and Sharing Burdens." *Journal of Political Philosophy* vol.22 no.2. pp.125-149. Armstrong, Chris 2017. *Justice and Natural Resources: An Egalitarian Theory* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Connolly, J & G. Smith. 2012. "Green Ideology", in *Politics and the Environment:* *From Theory to Practice. James Connelly, Graham Smith, David Benson, Clare Saunders eds., New York: Taylor Francis.* Di Chiro, Giovanna 2008. "Living Environmentalisms: Coalition Politics, Social Reproduction, and Environmental Justice" *Environmental Politics* 17. 2. Dobson, A. 1995. "Representative Democracy and the Environment." in Ulrich Beck, *Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk* Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Dobson, Andrew 1993. 'Ecologism', in *Contemporary Political Ideologies*. Eatwell, R and Wright, A eds, London: Pinter Publ. Dobson, Andrew 2003. *Citizenship and the Environment* New York: Oxford University Press Dryzek, John S. and David Schlosberg 2011. *The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dryzek, John S. 2013. *The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses, 3rd ed.* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Eckersley, Robyn 1992. *Environmentalism and Political Theo*ry*: Toward an Ecocentric Approach,* New York: Suny Press.33-47 Ellis, Jeffrey C. 1995. "On the Search for a Root Cause: Essentialist Tendencies in Environmental Discourse," in *Uncommon Ground. 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"Environmental Inequality Formation: Toward a Theory of Environmental Injustice." *American Behavioral Scientist* 43. no. 4: 581-601. Plumwood, Val 2007. "Has Democracy Failed Ecology? An Ecofeminist Perspective." *Environmental Politics* 4. 134-168. Rolston, H. 'Environmentalism', in *Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives: Contemporary Perspectives.* James Sterba, ed. London: Routledge Smith, Michel 1998. *Ecologism: Towards Ecological Citizenship.* Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press. Torgerson, Douglas 2000. "Farewell to the Green Movement? Political Action and the Green Public Sphere" *Environmental Politics* 9. 4 pp.1-9 Vanderheiden, Steven 2008. *Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change* New York: Oxford University Press. Wagner, Paul 2008. "The Importance of Critical Environmental Studies in the New Environmentalism" *Global Environmental* *Politics* Vol. 8. No. 1. pp. 6--13