This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics and History, BSc in Politics and International Relations and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics and History, BSc in Politics and International Relations and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is delivered through seminars totalling a minimum of 40 hours across the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. This year, some or all of this teaching will be delivered through a combination of online and on-campus seminars. This course includes reading weeks in Week 6 of both the MT and LT terms.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the MT and 1 essay in the LT.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. R. Warner, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972. Augustine, The City of God Against the Pagans, trans. R.W. Dyson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Machiavelli, The Prince, eds. Q. Skinner and Russell Price, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012. Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. R. Tuck, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Rousseau, Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2012. Clausewitz, Carl von., On War, eds. M. Howard and P. Paret, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1984. Lenin, V.I., The State and Revolution, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2009. Mao, Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, (the Little Red Book), Beijing, Progress Publishers, 1976. Schmitt, Carl, The Concept of the Political, trans. George Schwab, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007. Hardt, M., & Negri, A., Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, New York, Penguin, 2004.
Essay (100%, 5000 words) in the ST.