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CSS 271

Modern Social Theory CSS 271 FA

Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:01:13 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       28      0         28

This course examines a number of competing conceptual frameworks in the social sciences derived from major political philosophers and social theorists, such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Freud.

MAJOR READINGS

Hobbes, LEVIATHAN
Kant, POLITICAL WRITINGS
Locke, TREATISE OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT
Bentham, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND
LEGISLATION
Rousseau, DISCOURSE ON INEQUALITY
Rousseau, THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
Marx, ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL MANUSCRIPTS, and selections
from other major writings
Nietzsche, THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS
Durkheim, DIVISION OF LABOR IN SOCIETY
Weber, PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM
Weber, FROM MAX WEBER, selections
Freud, CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Short (2-3 pages) weekly paper

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course is only open to CSS sophomores.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS GOVT

Prerequisites: None

Section 01: Moon, J; Times: M...... 1:10PM;; Grading Mode: Cr/U; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 0, Jr: 2, So: 1, Fr: 0; Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

About the Photo:

Sigmund Freud

Reference:

Jaffe, Aniela. CG JUNG: WORD AND IMAGE, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979

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