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Instructors: Amanda Machin
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Sociology, Politics & Economics
Displayed in timetable as:
Pol. Phil.
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
“Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies. And whoever emancipates doesn’t have to worry about what the emancipated person learns. He will learn what he wants, nothing maybe…” (Jacques Rancière)
This course is not intended to teach you any facts or formulas. Rather it aims at encouraging the development and practice of the skill of thinking and talking about politics. It does not intend to provide fixed answers, but rather hopes to encourage you to ask searching questions about political institutions, participation and membership in the world today. It does not expect you only to read and understand the key ideas of some important texts in contemporary political philosophy but also to rigorously analyze, dissect and query them. A particular focus will be the issue of citizenship: Who is a citizen? What does citizenship entail? How does citizenship empower? Do conventional conceptions and practices of citizenship need radical revision? We will also thus touch upon crucial topics of justice, freedom, equality, democracy and identity.
Weekly Seminar Preparation:
Each week the key reading should be read before the seminar. Additional reading is strongly advised, but optional. Students should come prepared with a question that relates to the topic or the set reading.
Educational objective:
Students will
a) Become familiar with some of the major schools of thought in (contemporary) political philosophy: liberal, civic-republican, marxist, multiculturalist, cosmopolitan, radical-democratic, feminist, post-colonialist, Islamic and green political philosophy.
b) Engage with relevant literature, philosophers, concepts and arguments.
c) Hone critical skills through the formulation of questions and contemplation of possible responses.
Further information about the exams:
Assessment is comprised of two parts:
1) Weekly contribution of question.
2) An end-term essay | 8-10 pages | deadline tbc. The essay should be double spaced, 12 font size, with students name and email address.
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