Бакалавриат 2024/2025

История политических учений

ID 883470

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

Кто читает: Департамент политологии и международных отношений

Где читается: Санкт-Петербургская школа социальных наук

Когда читается: 1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Рябов Дмитрий Олегович

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 6

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
• Plato
• Aristotle
• 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
• Thomas Jefferson
• Immanuel Kant
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Assessment Elements

• Exam
• Test
• in-class discussion
• Group Project
  Students under the guidance of the course lecturer and teacher assistant have to design a prototype of a game that has to use in its mechanics ideas from the course's readings. The game prototype should be presented orally in-class and handed in to the teacher as a game design document.

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.2 * Group Project + 0.3 * in-class discussion + 0.2 * Exam + 0.3 * Test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Hegel: Political Writings / Hegel, G — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 415 с. — ISBN 9780511152108. — URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=202387&query= (дата обращения: 30.08.2019). — Текст : электронный.
• Salikov, A. (2013). Kant and the contemporary theory of international relations. Vestnik IKBFU, 12, 97–103.
• 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

• Kain, P. J. (2018). Hegel and Right : A Study of the Philosophy of Right. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1854779
• The Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought, , 2003

Authors

• Riabov Dmitrii Olegovich