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CS92PROD
Junior Colloquium: Contemporary Social and Political Theory

CSS 371
Spring 2015
Section: 01  
Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory

This colloquium examines the work of a number of major 20th-century social and political theorists such as Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls, Michael Oakeshott, Franz Fanon, Ludwig Von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Michel Foucault, Seyla Benhabib, and Wendy Brown. The colloquium will be organized around central concepts of social and political analysis such as human rights, the public and private sphere, human action and social structure, freedom, and the nature of politics. In addition, the colloquium will explore various ways in which the social sciences have employed key concepts and have interpreted the self-understanding of social actors, and how these inform the overarching theories of contemporary thinkers.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS PHIL
Course Format: Lecture / DiscussionGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (CSCT)(CSS)
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available

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