Course Details
Country:
Japan
Institution:
Waseda University
Course Title:
Intermediate Seminar (Political Ideologies: Left, Right, and Center) [E] 01
Course Number:
POLX221S
Course Description:
This course will explore three of the dominant theoretical traditions in Western politics: liberalism, conservatism, and socialism. We will begin by considering historical exemplars of these traditions – the works of John Locke, John Stuart Mill (liberalism), Edmund Burke (conservatism), Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Eduard Burnstein (socialism). Afterwards, we will examine contemporary articulations of these traditions, from the social liberalism/democracy of John Rawls and the democratic socialism of G.A. Cohen to the New Left “identity politics” of Iris Marion Young and the libertarianism of Charles Murray. To conclude, we will grapple with two divergent perspectives or phenomenas that either claim to transcend the division between left and right or challenge the utility of the left-right spectrum entirely – the centrist ‘Third Way,’ championed by the likes of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, and populism.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
GOVT 324
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