Modern Political Philosophy (BPSC 113)
Introduction
UNIT 1
Enlightenment Rationality and the Idea of Modernity
UNIT 2
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The State of Nature and the ‘Noble Savage’
GENERAL WILL AND SELF GOVERNMENT
Critique of Rousseau’s Idea of Education
CRITICISMS OF LIBERAL EDUCATION
UNIT 3
Mary Wollstonecraft
WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Critique of Rousseau’s Idea of Education
UNIT 4
John Stuart Mill
Liberty and Individualism
Suffrage and Women’s Rights
THE THEORY OF UTILITY
UNIT 5
Karl Marx
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
CLASS AND CLASS STRUGGLE
Capitalism and Exploitation
UNIT 6
Alexandra Kollontai
SOCIALIZATION OF HOMEWO
