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050800002905125Introduction to Politics and Political Philosophy (S2)00Introduction to Politics and Political Philosophy (S2)PO1103/PPE1001Semester 2 (2017/18)Check your timetable for time and room detailsAssessments22 February: Formative 10 May: Summative Module LeaderDr Marika Rosemarika.rose@winchester.ac.ukOffice hours: MC201Tuesday 15:00–17:00This module introduces themes, theoretical perspectives and concepts in the study of politics and political philosophy and aims to develop an understanding of how political institutions operate and of how they are underpinned by adherence to a variety of political philosophies, or ideologies that act, globally, to order the global environment. The concepts and institutions studies are from a western perspective in order to, first, ground students in a knowledge of these themes per se but, second, to provide a framework for comparative study of non-western polities analysed in greater depth in Levels 5 and 6, such as those in the Middle East and China, in order to gauge the extent that western concepts of politics have been adapted, accepted or rejected in different environments.LEARNING OUTCOMESBy the conclusion of this two-semester module a student will be expected to be able to demonstrate: a foundation knowledge of concepts and methodologies of political philosophy and their application to example political settings and situationsan examination of how differing polities use, adapt or reject western ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism and socialisma basic understanding of political vocabulary and an ability to articulate ideas and concepts about the social, economic, historical and cultural contexts in politics and political philosophyASSESSMENTSREFERENCES in your Assessments must be formatted in FOOTNOTE format and a BIBLIOGRAPHY must be included. Instructions for this format can be found in the Programme Handbook. This module will be assessed by your summative assignment, a 2,000 word essay.This assessment will be supported by formative work in class (in the form of teaching and discussion on key concepts and the assigned reading), outside of class (in the form of the required reading you will be set for each week of the course), and by a formative assignment, which will consist of a 1,000 word book report. This formative assignment will give you the opportunity to practice reading, describing and critically engaging texts.Assessment 1: FormativeDue: 15:30 22/02/17 (Thursday of Semester 2, Week 6) Assessment Type: Book reportWord Length: 1,000Percentage: 0%Choose a key primary source text used in the module (one of our set weekly readings) and write a critical examination of the role that EITHER race, gender or class play in the text.Due date for assessment to be returned to student with feedback: 05/03/17Assessment 2Due: 10/05/18 (Thursday of Assessment Period, Week 1) Assessment Type: EssayWord Length: 2,000Percentage: 25%Essay:Answer one of the following questions:The philosopher Robin James has suggested that ‘Who cleans up after other people?’ is a more important question for political philosophy than ‘Who governs?’ Discuss this claim, with reference to AT LEAST TWO of the thinkers we have studied this semester.In ‘A Black Feminist Statement’ (1977), the Combahee River Collective wrote, ‘If Black women were free it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.’ Discuss this claim, with reference to AT LEAST TWO of the thinkers we have studied this semester.In 1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, ‘There is no such thing as society.’ Discuss this claim, with reference to AT LEAST TWO of the thinkers we have studied this semester.Pick TWO of the thinkers we have studied during this course. Compare and contrast their discussion of ONE of the following key ideas: a) freedom, b) private property, c) the social contract or d) government.Feedback due back: 02/07/18NB: ALL WRITTEN ASSESSMENTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED ONLINE VIA THE MODULE PAGE. Instructions on how to submit via the Module Page are available on the TRE/PRE Homepage and in the Programme Handbook. Marking criteria can also be found, listed by level, in the Programme Handbook.LECTURE OVERVIEWWEEK 1. Introduction to Political PhilosophyWEEK 2. The social contract: Thomas HobbesWEEK 3. The sexual contract: Carol PatemanWEEK 4. The racial contract: Charles MillsWEEK 5. Private Property: John LockeWEEK 6. Communism: Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsWEEK 7. ENRICHMENT WEEKWEEK 8. Freedom: John Stuart MillWEEK 9. Resistance: Frantz FanonWEEK 10. Liberty: Robert Nozick WEEK 11: Control: Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Paul B PreciadoWEEK 12: Topic selected by the class TOPIC LISTWEEK 1: Introduction to Political PhilosophyThis week we will discuss the nature of political philosophy, and consider the ways in which our political experiences and imagination are shaped by three of the key factors which will inform our discussions of the texts we study over the rest of the course: race, gender and class. Required ReadingLeo Strauss, ‘What is Political Philosophy?’ in The Journal of Politics 19.3 (1957), 343-368.WEEK 2. The social contract: Thomas HobbesRequired ReadingThomas Hobbes, Leviathan edited by Richard Tuck (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Introduction, Chapters 13-14, 16 and 18, pages 81-84, 183-201, 217-222, 228-239.Further ReadingKatherine Bootle Attie, ‘Re-membering the Body Politic: Hobbes and the Construction of Civic Immortality’ in ELH 75.3 (2008), 497-530.Leo Strauss, ‘The Moral Basis’ in The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis, translated by Elsa M Sinclair (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 6-29.WEEK 3. The sexual contract: Carol PatemanRequired ReadingCarol Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 1-39.Further ReadingElisabetta Galeotti, ‘Rereading a Classic Text’ in History of the Present 3.2 (2013), 198-204.Robyn Marasco, ‘Terms and Conditions’ in History of the Present 3.2 (2013), 205-211.Jack Jackson, ‘The Misfortune of Silence’ in History of the Present 3.2 (2013, 212-219.WEEK 4. The racial contract: Charles MillsRequired ReadingCharles Mills, The Racial Contract (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), 9-40.Further ReadingAnthony Bogues, ‘Race and Revising Liberalism’ in Charles Mills, Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2010), 222-229.Lewis R Gordon, ‘Contracting White Normativity’ in Charles Mills, Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2010), 213-221.Clinton Hutton, ‘Opening up the Intellectual Closet of Modern Western Political Philosophy’ in Charles Mills, Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2010), 230-237.Charles Mills, ‘The Racial Contract as Methodology’ in From Class to Race: Essays in White Marism and Black Radicalism (Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield: 2003), 219-250.WEEK 5. Private Property: John LockeRequired ReadingLocke, John Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), Book 2, chapters 2, 5 and 8.Further ReadingBarbara Arneil, ‘Colonialism: Locke’s Theory of Property’ in Locke and America: The Defence of English Colonialism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996), 132-167.John Dunn, Locke: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).Carol M Rose, ‘Possession as the Origin of Property’ in The University of Chicago Law Review 52.1 (1985), 73-88.WEEK 6. Communism: Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsRequired ReadingKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848. Further ReadingDavid Leopold, ‘Marx, Engels and Other Socialisms’ in The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).Jonathan Wolff ‘Class, History and Capital’ in Why Read Marx Today? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 48-99.WEEK 7: ENRICHMENT WEEK: No LectureWEEK 8. Freedom: J S MillRequired ReadingMill, John Stuart, On Liberty (Harmandsworth: Penguin, 1982), chapters 1 and 4.Further ReadingGertrude Himmelfarb, ‘Liberty of Action: Individuality’ and ‘The Limits of Individuality and Society’ in On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of John Stuart Mill (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1990), 57-91 and 92-108.John Skorupski, ‘Liberty’ in John Stuart Mill (London: Routledge, 1989), 337-388.WEEK 9. Resistance: Frantz FanonRequired ReadingFrantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (London: Penguin, 2001), 1-36.Further ReadingNigel C Gibson, ‘Violent Concerns’ in Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (Cambridge: Polity, 2003), 103-126.Lewis Gordon, ‘“I Am from Martinique”’ in What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015), 19-46.Lewis Gordon, ‘Tragic Revolutionary Violence and Philosophical Anthropology’ in Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences (London: Routledge, 1995), 67-84.David Macey, ‘Forgetting Fanon, Remembering Fanon’ in Frantz Fanon: A Biography (London: Verso, 2012), 1-30.WEEK 10. Liberty: Robert Nozick Required ReadingRobert Nozick, ‘Moral Constraints and the State’ in Anarchy, State and Utopia (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 26-53.Further ReadingEdward Andrew, ‘Inalienable Right, Inalienable Property and Freedom of Choice: Locke, Nozick and Marx on the Inalienability of Labour’ in Canadian Journal of Political Science 18.2 (1985), 529-550.Richard J Arneson, ‘Side constraints, Lockean individual rights, and the moral basis of libertarianism’ in The Cambridge Companion to Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 15-37.Thomas Scanlon, ‘Nozick on Rights, Liberty and Property’ in Philosophy & Public Affairs 6.1 (1976), 3-25.WEEK 11: Control: Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Paul B PreciadoRequired ReadingMichel Foucault, ‘Panopticism’ in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (London: Penguin, 1991), 195-209Gilles Deleuze, ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’ in October 59 (1992), 3-7.Paul B Preciado, ‘Packaging Disciplinary Architecture: Dialpak and the Invention of the Edible Panopticon’ in Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (New York City: Feminist Press, 2013), 201-215.Further ReadingPhillip Barker, ‘To Discipline and Subject’ in Michel Foucault: An Introduction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), 48-69.Michel Foucault, ‘Panopticism’ in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (London: Penguin, 1991), 195-228.Kevin D Haggerty and Richard V Ericson, ‘The surveillant assemblage’ in British Journal of Sociology 51.4 (2000), 605-622.Paul B Preciado, ‘Pharmacopower’ in Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, translated by Bruce Benderson (New York City: Feminist Press, 2013), 144-235.Ricky Tucker, ‘Pharmacopornography: An Interview with Beatriz Preciado’ in Paris Review, 4 December 2013. (accessed 23 November 2017).WEEK 12: Topic selected by the class We will spend some time earlier on in the course discussing which current events/topics are of especial interest to members of the class and will pick some readings for the final week that reflect these interests.OVERALL BIBLIOGRAPHYColin Bird, An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).Martin Cohen, Political Philosophy: From Plato to Mao (London: Pluto, 2001). David Miller, Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vols 1-2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978). ................
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