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2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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POL 313 - Modern Political Thought
2009-2010 Catalog Year
This course studies selected texts of important political theorists
from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. It focuses
specifically on the political theory of the enlightenment, the
emergence of the modern theory of democracy, rationalizations of
the sovereignty of the nation-state, and the development of
critical theories of capitalism and modernity in the late
nineteenth centuries. Theorists studied will include Machiavelli,
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montwequieu, Burke, Mill, Marx, and
Nietzsche.
OFFERED: Irregular
CREDIT: 3
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