Thursdays, Weeks 6-10 Lecturer: Susan James () We often assume that our political life depends on, and is organised within, the state. But what is a state, what is the basis of its authority, and how far does its authority extend? This module will address these questions. Each class will be structured around the work of a historical author whose ideas continue to exert a significant influence on contemporary philosophical debate. Preliminary Reading David Miller, Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Will Kymicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction Ian Hampsher Monk, History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx Week 6: What is the State? Thomas Hobbes, [many editions], Introduction and chs. 13-16.  Leviathan Supplementary Reading: and the Purely Artificial Person of the  Journal of Political Quentin Skinner, ‘Hobbes State’, a revised version of this paper in Skinner, Philosophy Philosophy Visions of 7(1999). There’s vol. III (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Politics Robert Nozick, ch. 2, pp. 10-25. Anarchy State and Utopia,  How to Write an MA Dissertation in Philosophy Study Skills Session: Jean Jacques Rousseau, in Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book Rousseau: The  ed V. Gourevitch (Cambridge University Press, Discourses and Other Early Political Writings 1997), pp. 300-304. Week 7: Consent as the Basis of the State John Locke, chs. 1-4, chs. 7-9.  Second Treatise of Government, Supplementary Reading: Michael Political Society: Some Problems of Terminology in Two Davis, Michael, “Locke's Treatises of Journal of Moral Philosophy 2014, vol. 11: 209–231. Government”, Week 8: Political and Patriarchal Power Thomas Hobbes, chs. 19 and 20. Leviathan, John Locke, ch. 6. Second Treatise of Government, Supplementary Reading Teresa Brennan and to the Commonwealth: Women and the Carole Pateman, ‘Mere Auxiliaries Origins of vol. 27.2 (1979), 183-200. Political Studies Liberalism’, Week 9: The Exploitative State Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Thursdays, Weeks 6-10 Lecturer: Susan James () We often assume that our political life depends on, and is organised within, the state. But what is a state, what is the basis of its authority, and how far does its authority extend? This module will address these questions. Each class will be structured around the work of a historical author whose ideas continue to exert a significant influence on contemporary philosophical debate. Preliminary Reading David Miller, Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Will Kymicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction Ian Hampsher Monk, History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx Week 6: What is the State?  Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan [many editions], Introduction and chs. 13-16. Supplementary Reading:  Quentin Skinner, ‘Hobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the State’, Journal of Political Philosophy Philosophy 7(1999). There’s a revised version of this paper in Skinner, Visions of Politics vol. III (Cambridge University Press, 2002).  Robert Nozick, Anarchy State and Utopia, ch. 2, pp. 10-25. Study Skills Session: How to Write an MA Dissertation in Philosophy  Jean Jacques Rousseau, Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book in Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings ed V. Gourevitch (Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 300-304. Week 7: Consent as the Basis of the State  John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, chs. 1-4, chs. 7-9. Supplementary Reading: Michael Davis, Michael, “Locke's Political Society: Some Problems of Terminology in Two Treatises of Government”, Journal of Moral Philosophy 2014, vol. 11: 209–231. Week 8: Political and Patriarchal Power Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chs. 19 and 20. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, ch. 6. Supplementary Reading Teresa Brennan and Carole Pateman, ‘Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth: Women and the Origins of Liberalism’, Political Studies vol. 27.2 (1979), 183-200. Week 9: The Exploitative State Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto