Бакалавриат
2022/2023
История политических учений
Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»
Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Политология и мировая политика)
Направление:
41.03.04. Политология
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа социальных наук
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 3, 4 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Преподаватели:
Рябов Дмитрий Олегович
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
7
Контактные часы:
80
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 knows basic historical facts about political philosophers, and the social and historical context of their works
- 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
Course Contents
- Political ideas in Ancient China
- Ancient Indian political thought
- Thucydides
- Plato and Socrates
- Aristotle
- Byzantine Political Thought
- Augustine of Hippo
- Thomas Aquinas
- Russian Pre-Modern political thought
- Niccolо Machiavelli
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Montesquieu and Rousseau
- Thomas Jefferson
- Immanuel Kant
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Russian Pre-Revolutionary political thought
- Carl Schmitt
Interim Assessment
- 2022/2023 4th module0.25 * In-class discussion + 0.25 * Essay + 0.25 * Test + 0.25 * Exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Oakeshott, Michael. Lectures in the History of Political Thought, edited by Terry Nardin, and Luke O'Sullivan, Andrews UK Ltd., 2007. ProQuestEbook Central
- The Cambridge history of medieval political thought c. 350 - c. 1450, , 1988
- The Cambridge history of political thought: 1450-1700, , 1994
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Black, Antony. A World History of Ancient Political Thought: Its Significance and Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2016