POLS 326, Spring 2011
Reading Schedule (revised as of 4/2/11) (Refer to the assignments page for
reading questions and writing assignments.)
Tuesday
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Thursday |
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Feb. 8—Introduction, Syllabus. |
Feb 10— What is
political theory? (I) Start with Rights. Nussbaum, Introduction. |
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Feb 15— What is political theory? (II) Wolin,
Chapter One. |
Feb 17— What is
political theory? (III)
Selections from E.J. Meehan, Reasoned Argument in Social Science. |
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Feb 22— Seeing
Justice. Nussbaum, Chapter One. |
Feb 24— Liberalism
and Justice. Nussbaum,
Chapter Two. |
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Mar 1— Linda Barclay, ÒWhat kind of liberal is Martha
Nussbaum?Ó, SATS-Nordic
Journal of Philosophy Vol. 4, No. 2, 2003, pp. 5-24. |
Mar 3— Wolin,
Chapter Nine. Liberalism and the
Decline of Political Philosophy. |
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Mar 8— Considering
Religion. Nussbaum, Chapter Three. |
Mar 10— Looking back
at religion in Western political theory: Wolin, Chapters Four and Five. |
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Mar 15— Same topic, cont. Wolin, Chapter Six. |
Mar 17— Further into
values, community, and politics. Wolin, Chapter Ten. |
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Mar 22— Contemporary
complications (I). Wolin,
Chapter Eleven. |
Mar 24— Contemporary
complications (II). Wolin,
Chapter Twelve. (Marx) |
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Mar 29— Turn in short
paper II, discussion of where we are in Nussbaum and Wolin. |
Mar 31— Contemporary
complications (III). Wolin,
Chapter Thirteen. (Nietzsche) |
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Apr 5—Spring Break. |
Apr 7—Spring Break. |
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Apr 12— Contemporary
complications (IV). Wolin,
Chapter Fourteen. (Liberalism and Rationalism) |
Apr 14— Limiting
the (democratic) state: Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, condensed version; Wolin,
Chapter Fifteen. |
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Apr 19— Economic
Considerations (I). Nussbaum,
Chapter Fourteen; Wolin, Chapter Sixteen. |
Apr 21— Economic
Considerations (II & III).
Nussbaum, Chapter Eleven.
Also, Samual Freeman, ÒA New Theory of Justice,Ó The New York Review of Books, October 14,
2010. (A
review of A. SenÕs The Idea of Justice) |
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Apr 26— The case of
lesbian and gay rights. Nussbaum,
Chapter Seven. |
Apr 28— Judging
the Other. Nussbaum, Chapter Four. |
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May 3— Some Complications—when basic
categories are constructed. Nussbaum,
Chapter Ten. |
May 5— Democratic
possibilities. Wolin,
Chapter Seventeen. |
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May 10— Justice in Developed
Countries. Nussbaum,
Chapter Five. |
May 12— A claim about
method. Nussbaum, Chapter Nine, and Sakai
reading. |
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May 17— Summing
up. |
May 19— Exam
preparation. |
Final
Examination Period: Thursday, May
26, 1-2:50p.m.