Module POC1028 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC1028: Modern Political Theory
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
John Locke, Two Treatises on Government
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Maximilien Robespierre, The Justification of the Use of Terror
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Christopher Rose, The Haitian Revolution
Anthony Bogues, The Dual Haitian Revolution and the Making of Freedom in Modernity
Leslie Thiele, Theory and Politics
Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future
Karl Marx , The Communist Manifesto
