Бакалавриат 2025/2026

История политических учений

ID 1053874

Статус: Курс обязательный (Политология и мировая политика)

Кто читает: Департамент политологии и международных отношений

Где читается: Санкт-Петербургская школа социальных наук

Когда читается: 1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Рябов Дмитрий Олегович

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 5

Контактные часы: 60

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course looks at political concepts produced in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and also Russia. Students will learn about why these concepts matter, what controversies surround each of them and what the vigorous debates and disagreements about them reveals about the character of contemporary politics in the era of globalization

Learning Objectives

• The main goal of this course is to introduce students to some of the key political ideas in a chronological and cross-country perspective, grounding students in several national theoretical traditions and encouraging them to produce analysis beyond the nation-states centered paradigm

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Student critically analyzes political ideas in their social context and apply them to contemporary politics
• Student publicly communicates his/her opinion on the political concept
• Student knows basic historical facts about political philosophers, and the social and historical context of their works

Course Contents

• Non-Western Political Philosophies
  The opening lecture introduces the course and deals with the non-Western political thought
• Thucydides
• Socrates and Xenophon
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Hellenistic and Roman political philosophy
• St. Augustine of Hippo
• Thomas Aquinas
• Russian Pre-Modern political thought
• Niccolо Machiavelli
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Montesquieu and Rousseau
• Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre
• German idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel

Assessment Elements

• Test
  There will be 4 tests (Antiquity, Christianity, early Modernity, Enlightenment), of 2-3 questions written at the beginning of a seminar.
• Exam
• in-class discussion
• Group Project
  There are 4 blocks: Antiquity, Christianity, Modernity, German idealism. The class has to divide onto 4-5 project groups and pick one of the blocks. Within a blocks the project group should choose a theme (a thinker, several thinkers, a book). The themes and groups should be finalized by the end of the first seminar. The project could take a form of oral presentation, a game, or some other educative activity. Time limit for the presentation is 20 minutes (with Q&A). The 2 page annotation and bibliography of the project should be handed in the written form no later than the presentation day.

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.2 * Group Project + 0.4 * Test + 0.2 * Exam + 0.2 * in-class discussion

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century political thought, , 2006
• The Cambridge history of medieval political thought c. 350 - c. 1450, , 1988
• The Cambridge history of nineteenth-century political thought, , 2011
• The Cambridge history of political thought: 1450-1700, , 1994

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• The Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought, , 2003

Authors

• Riabov Dmitrii Olegovich