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Academic Year 2000/2001
From Hegel to Marx and Marcuse
GOVT 396 SP
This course analyzes freedom, necessity, and liberation in the political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Hebert Marcuse. The development of human self-consciousness in history; the ethical structure of the state,
civil society, and the family;
critical theory of the structure of production; eros and the challenge to work and family; politics, culture, and the possibilities of revolution will be covered.
MAJOR READINGS
Hegel, PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT; LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY Marx, "Critique of Hegel's PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT;" "On the Jewish Question;" ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL MANUSCRIPTS Marx & Engels, GERMAN IDEOLOGY;
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO Marx, CAPITAL
Marcuse, REASON AND REVOLUTION; HEGEL AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL THEORY; EROS AND CIVILIZATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAN; AN ESSAY ON LIBERATION Secondary works: Shlomo Avineri, HEGEL'S THEORY OF THE MODERN STATE; SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL THOUGHT OF KARL MARX
Lucio Colletti, "From Hegel to Marcuse," in FROM ROUSSEAU TO LENIN J.N.Findlay, THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEGEL D.Howard & K. Klare, eds., THE UNKNOWN DIMENSION. EUROPEAN MARXISM SINCE LENIN Leonard Krieger, THE GERMAN
IDEA OF FREEDOM Alasdair
MacIntyre, ed., HEGEL Z.A. Pelcyzynski, ed., THE STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY Charles Taylor, HEGEL AND MODERN SOCIETY
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
One short paper and class presentation, based on the reading for class; one term paper (15-20 pp.) comparing two of the theorists on a topic of your choosing.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS GOVT
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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