Political Ideas -- Fall 2006 -- Tentative schedule of topics and
Part I: Development of the contemporary middle ground Note: D&D = Love, ed., Dogmas and Dreams
Week 1-August 29- Introduction to the course and to each other
Week 2- Sept.5-Classical liberalism vs. the old, authoritarian regime
Heywood, pp.1-5 and 25-57 (read all of Chapter 1 if you have time); D&D, pp. 17-28 (Locke), pp. 57-66 (Federalist Papers), 86-108 (Friedman); a bit more from Locke (handout)
Week
3-Sept.12-From classical to modern liberalism
Heywood, pp.57-68, 240-243, 252-255; D&D,
pp.29-40 (more of Mill if you have time), 67-85 (Green, F. D. Roosevelt), 109-122
(Kramnick), 489-496 (Friedan)
Week
4-Sept.19-Traditional conservatism
Heywood, pp.69-90; D&D, pp.129-164
(Oakeshott, Burke)
Week
5-Sept.26-From traditional to modern conservatism
Heywood, pp.90-104 and pp.251-252; D&D,
pp.165-206 (Kristol, Schlafly, Bloom)
Part
II: Challenges from left, right and elsewhere
Week 6-Oct.3- Early socialism and the ideas of Karl Marx
Heywood, pp. 105-139; D&D, pp.213-313 (Fourier, Marx, Engels, Lenin)
Week
7-Oct.10-Contemporary democratic socialism
Heywood, pp.135-154 and 255-258; D&D, pp.314-345 (Bernstein,
Hayden and Flacks) and 497-516 (Hartmann)
Week 8-Oct.17- Anarchism
Heywood, Chapter 6; D&D, Part 4 (pp.347-399 – Goldman,
Thoreau, Kropotkin, Bakunin)
Week
9-Oct.24-Fascism
Heywood, Chapter 7; D&D, Part 5 (pp.401-470 – Mussolini, Hitler, Macdonald, Moser)
Week 10-Oct.31-Feminism
Heywood, Chapter 8; D&D, pp.517-568
(Wittig, Lorde, Anzaldua, Mohanty)
Week 11-Nov.7-Environmentalism
Heywood, Chapter 9; D&D, Part 7
(pp.569-639 – Emerson,
Week 12-Nov.14-Nationalism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism
Heywood, Chapter 5; D&D, pp.647-672 (Mazzini, Anderson, Ohmae)
Week 13- Nov.21-Fundamentalism, modernity, globalization
Heywood, Chapter 10; D&D,
pp.673-737 (Nyang, Said,
Week 14- Nov.28-Outstanding issues and debates
To Be Determined
Week 15-Dec.5-Wrap up