These notes
are based on lecturing done over nearly 40 years (1966 – 2005) at UEL, as well
as more recent teaching (since 2008) for the
And
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(1) What is meant by ‘imagining other’... #why? (for full list).
(2) Teaching notes for courses offered by the
How Enlightened was the (18th Century European) Enlightenment? #enlightenment.
Part 1: What is Imagining Other?
Alternatives. (Includes links to other notes - ‘building
the new society in the shell of the old...’)
Conservatism: Introduction, Burke, Hegel Oakeshott and Nozick Thatcherism Hayek, liberal conservatism, new right economics
Feminism (Introduction) Simone de Beauvoir Feminism (Extracts and Quotes) Feminism and Inequality Feminism Today
Environmentalism (notes for political philosophy) Notes on Climate Change, 'Sceptics' etc.
See also: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment
and: Social Movements: the Environmental and Green Movements
and especially: ‘Protecting the Planet’ (below) protecting the planet: introduction
Week 2: Introduction continued: Enlightenment values
Week 4 Economic Underpinnings (war, trade, agricultural and industrial revolutions)
Week 6: Human Nature in Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant
Week 7: The Arts (extended to first part of week 8 also)
Week 8: Political Ideas (part (i) - Kant, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau)
Week 9: Political Ideas (ii) - The American and French Revolutions, Burke and Paine
Week 10: Problematics: slavery, race, women
Chapter 3: Anti-colonialism – to be completed
Section 2: the anti-nuclear movement
Chapter 5: Civil Rights – to be completed.
Chapter 6: (‘People Power’
Chapter
7: Youth, Students and the Counter Culture
Chapter 8: The Environmental Movement. Now a new course: Protecting the Planet (see above).
Section 1: The Environmental (Green) Movement. See also Protecting the Planet Part 10: the movement
See also my first notes on this topic: Corporate Social Responsibility 6 the environment.
Section 2: Climate Change. See also Protecting the Planet 6: Causes of climate change
Section 3: to be revised
Section 4: environmental issues in Australia
Section 5: How an Australian environmentalist survived a crocodile attack and changed her view on humans and nature: Val Plumwood and the crocodile
See also Environmentalism for political philosophy course (above)
And especially ‘Protecting the Planet’ (below) protecting the planet: introduction
For updates on other environmental issues: Protecting the Planet updates (2018)
Chapter 9: Anti-globalisation movement – to be completed.
Chapter 10: Social Movements Today.
Protecting the planet Week 1: Introduction
Protecting the Planet Weeks 2 & 3: some key industries
Protecting the Planet Week 4: strategies for action
Protecting the Planet Week 5: some solutions to environmental problems
Protecting the Planet Week 6: global
warming: causes and controversy
Protecting the Planet Week 7: global warming: effects
Protecting the Planet Week 8: species decline
Protecting the Planet Week 9: energy policies
Protecting the Planet Week 10: the environment movement
Chapter 8: Inequality Updates on Inequality [New! – recent events (credit crunch, debt crisis, recession and especially the Occupy
demonstrators) have brought into the public domain the issue that has been central for socialists for some 200 years at
least: inequality of income, wealth and power.]
Chapter 9: Summary of 'Remedies' and Conclusion.
NEW: Comments on Paul Mason and 'postcapitalism'.
There is now a good wikipedia entry on Castoriadis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Castoriadis.
Poetry I Like (NEW!) - some of my favourite poems.
'Reflecting on Nature' - programme notes for a song recital. (NEW!)
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