Bachelor
2022/2023
The History of Political Thought
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Political Science and World Politics)
Area of studies:
Political Science
When:
1 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Dmitriy Riabov
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
7
Contact hours:
80
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course looks at political concepts produced in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and also Russia. Students will learn about why these concepts matter, what controversies surround each of them and what the vigorous debates and disagreements about them reveals about the character of contemporary politics in the era of globalization
Learning Objectives
- The main goal of this course is to introduce students to some of the key political ideas in a chronological and cross-country perspective, grounding students in several national theoretical traditions and encouraging them to produce analysis beyond the nation-states centered paradigm
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Student knows basic historical facts about political philosophers, and the social and historical context of their works
- Student critically analyzes political ideas in their social context and apply them to contemporary politics
- Student publicly communicates his/her opinion on the political concept
Course Contents
- Political ideas in Ancient China
- Ancient Indian political thought
- Thucydides
- Plato and Socrates
- Aristotle
- Byzantine Political Thought
- Augustine of Hippo
- Thomas Aquinas
- Russian Pre-Modern political thought
- Niccolо Machiavelli
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Montesquieu and Rousseau
- Thomas Jefferson
- Immanuel Kant
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Russian Pre-Revolutionary political thought
- Carl Schmitt
Interim Assessment
- 2022/2023 4th module0.25 * In-class discussion + 0.25 * Essay + 0.25 * Test + 0.25 * Exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Oakeshott, Michael. Lectures in the History of Political Thought, edited by Terry Nardin, and Luke O'Sullivan, Andrews UK Ltd., 2007. ProQuestEbook Central
- The Cambridge history of medieval political thought c. 350 - c. 1450, , 1988
- The Cambridge history of political thought: 1450-1700, , 1994
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Black, Antony. A World History of Ancient Political Thought: Its Significance and Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2016