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Political Thought of Modernity
Module POL2059 for 2023/4
Module POL2059 for 2023/4
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL2059: Political Thought of Modernity
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.
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.
Indicative Primary Reading List
- Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment? (1784)
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791)
- G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of Right (1821)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1836)
- Karl Marx, Capital (1867)
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
- Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future (1961)
Secondary reading:
David Boucher and Paul Kelly (eds.), Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Gary Browning, A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Iain Hampsher-Monk, A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx (Blackwell, 1992)
