Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL2059: Political Thought of Modernity

This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level	5
Credits	15	ECTS Value	7.5
Term(s) and duration	This module will run during term 2 (11 weeks)
Academic staff	Professor Robert Lamb (Convenor)
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
Available via distance learning	No

This module will introduce you to some of the most influential, fascinating, and controversial texts and traditions in Western political thought – from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century – and, in so doing, will encourage you to interrogate how the very idea of modernity is conceptualised and contested. In reading these texts, you will come to understand, and engage in critique of, the modern political concepts – rights, freedom, equality, democracy, civil society, property, revolution, the state, and modernity itself – that continue to animate our civic discussions as well as the intellectual traditions (liberalism, Idealism, Marxism) of the modern period.

Module created	01/10/2010	Last revised	01/02/2022