Political Ideas -- Fall 2007 -- Tentative schedule of topics and reading assignments
Part I: Development of the contemporary middle ground Note: D&D = Love, ed., Dogmas and Dreams
Week 1-August 28- Introduction to the course and to each other
Week 2- Sept.4-Classical liberalism vs. the old, authoritarian regime
Heywood, pp.1-4 and 23-53 (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 (online)
Week
3-Sept.11-From classical to modern liberalism
Heywood, pp.53-63, 230-233, 242-245; 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.18-Traditional conservatism
Heywood, pp.65-86; D&D, pp.129-164
(Oakeshott, Burke); more Burke
Week
5-Sept.25-From traditional to modern conservatism
Heywood, pp.86-98 and pp.241-242; D&D,
pp.165-206 (Kristol, Schlafly, Bloom)
Part
II: Challenges from left, right and elsewhere
Week 6-Oct.2- Early socialism and the ideas of Karl Marx
Heywood, pp. 99-126; D&D, pp.213-313 (Fourier, Marx, Engels, Lenin)
Week
7-Oct.9-Contemporary democratic socialism
Heywood, pp.126-142 and 245-247; D&D, pp.314-345 (Bernstein,
Hayden and Flacks) and 497-516 (Hartmann)
Week 8-Oct.16- Anarchism
Heywood, Chapter 6; D&D, Part 4 (pp.347-399 – Goldman,
Thoreau, Kropotkin, Bakunin)
Week
9-Oct.23-Fascism
Heywood, Chapter 7; D&D, Part 5 (pp.401-470 – Mussolini, Hitler, Macdonald, Moser)
Week 10-Oct.30-Feminism
Heywood, Chapter 8; D&D, pp.517-568
(Wittig, Lorde, Anzaldua, Mohanty)
Week 11-Nov.6-Environmentalism
Heywood, Chapter 9; D&D, Part 7
(pp.569-639 – Emerson,
Week 12-Nov.13-Nationalism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism
Heywood, Chapter 5; D&D, pp.647-672 (Mazzini, Anderson, Ohmae)
Week 13- Nov.20-Fundamentalism, modernity, globalization
Heywood, Chapter 10; D&D,
pp.673-737 (Nyang, Said,
Week 14- Nov.27-Multiculturalism
Heyood, Chapter 11; Parekh, “Equality in a Multicultural Society” (online)
Week 15-Dec.4-Wrap up