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Academic Year 2000/2001
Critical Social Theory
PHIL 225 SP
This course is an examination and discussion of some major texts in the modern Western tradition that consider the place, power, and limits of reason in social life.
MAJOR READINGS
Selections from Kant's political writings. Hobbes: LEVIATHAN Rousseau: DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY Selections from Karl Marx Mathew Arnold: CULTURE OR ANARCHY Freud: CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Max Weber: PROTESTANT ETHIC...
Selections from Adorno and Horkheimer.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Numerous short essays on course readings.
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:
HA PHIL
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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