Syllabi

Narratives of Modernity Nietzsche Max Weber — Rationalization and the Iron Cage E.J. Hobsbawm- Nations and Nationalism Merleau-Ponty– Humanism and Terror Ortega y Gasset —

The Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Copernican Turn Hobbes Leviathan Locke Second Treatise on Government Pierre Boyle Machiavelli Hume Spinoza Rousseau Kant Hegel All so we

In this course, we will cover how ancient politics transformed via various revolutions into modern thought patterns.

  Ideals of Citizenship Thucydides: “Pericles’s Funeral Oration” Tacitus Agricola  Consitutional Forms and their virtues Aristotle Politics Book I, 1-2; Book II, 1-2; Book III,