May 27, 2024  
2015-2016 
    
2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PLSC 457 - Modern Political Thought

Credits: 3
Explores major political ideas from the eighteenth century to the present. Writers discussed typically include Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Central topics include the abandonment of natural right; the turn to history as a standard of right; and the subsequent self-destruction and recovery of reason (and revelation) in late modern political thought.

Swing course—Approved 400–499 courses qualify for graduate-level credit for graduate students


Grade Mode: Normal (A-F,I,W)
Schedule Type: Lecture
Offering: Alternate years
College Code: CAS


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