Subject Area: Philosophy
Historical introduction to modern political philosophy, beginning with Hobbes and including a selection of key figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Kant, Marx and Foucault. Topics covered will include: the nature of political philosophy, the relation between moral and political values, the justification and limits of state authority, ideas of social contract, consent, universal suffrage, power, rights, property, freedom, democracy, mechanisms of political change and conceptions of the public political sphere.
