IMAGINING OTHER
Political Philosophy Contents Page
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The political philosophy pages
are under construction! (Last update
April 2010).
It is planned that eventually
there will be notes on the political philosophers and topics listed below.
Names in bold indicate notes
are written up, and hyperlinks are included.
Teaching order on my WEA
course(s) will be similar to the numerical order, but in some weeks more than
one topic will be covered.
(a)
Numerical order.
Part
One:
pp1:
Introduction to Part One link
pp2:
Plato link
pp3:
Aristotle link
pp4:
Augustine & Aquinas link
pp5:
More & Utopianism link
pp6:
Luther & Calvin link
pp7: Machiavelli link
pp8:
Hobbes link
pp9:
Locke link
pp10:
Rousseau link
pp11:
Tom Paine, Edmund Burke link
Part
Two (being written!):
pp12: Introduction to Part Two link
pp13: Liberalism (Adam Smith
to Rawls) link
(Adam Smith)
pp14: Utilitarianism link
pp15: Socialism before Marx link
pp16: Marx link (overview)
link (evolution of Marx's
thought)
link: Marxism, Religion,
Modernity
pp17: Socialism since Marx
(Part 1)
(Marxism and Revisionism, including
‘critical theory’, Gramsci and
Lukacs) link
pp17: Socialism since Marx
part 2 (New Left,
Labour and New Labour, the ‘third
way’) to be completed
pp18: Kropotkin and Anarchism link
pp19: Conservatism link
(Part i: Introduction, Burke and Hegel)
link (Part ii: Oakeshott and
Nozick)
link (Part iv:
Hayek, liberal conservatism, new right economics)
pp20: Existentialism link
pp21: Feminism link (feminism
introduction)
pp22: Environmentalism
and alternative
worldviews to be completed
pp23: Post-modernism etc link
(b)
Alphabetical Order:
Anarchism (Kropotkin) pp18 link
Aquinas (& Augustine) pp4 link
Aristotle pp3 link
Augustine (& Aquinas) pp4 link
Bernstein pp17 link
Burke pp11 link
Conservatism (Hegel, Hayek,
Nozick, Oakeshott,
Thatcherism) pp19 link (Part i:Burke and Hegel)
link (Part ii:Oakeshott
and Nozick)
link (Part iv:
Hayek, liberal conservatism, new right economics)
Crosland pp17 link
Environmentalism pp22 tbc
Existentialism pp20 link
Feminism pp21 link (introduction)
link (Inequality - statistics and
facts)
link (extracts from feminists)
Gramsci (brief notes) pp17 link
Hayek pp19 link
Hegel pp19 link (Burke and Hegel)
Hobbes pp8 link
Kropotkin pp18 link
Labour Party pp17
Part 2 tbc
Liberalism pp13 link (Adam Smith)
Locke and liberalism pp9 link
Lukacs (brief notes) pp17 link
Luther, Calvin pp6 link
Machiavelli pp7 link
Marx pp16 link
Marxism (followers of Marx) pp17 link
More, Thomas pp5 link
New Labour pp17
Part 2 tbc
Nozick, Robert pp19 link (Oakeshott and Nozick)
Oakeshott, Michael pp19 link (Oakeshott and Nozick)
Paine, Tom pp11 link
Plato and Greek thought pp2 link
Political Philosophy Intro. pp1 link
Karl Popper pp19? tbc
Postmodernism pp23 link
John Rawls pp13 link
Rousseau pp10 link
Socialism before Marx (Robert Owen) pp15 link
Socialism since Marx
(i) Social Democracy
(Bernstein,
Crosland) pp17 link
(ii) Labour & New Labour pp17 Part 2 tbc
Utilitarianism pp14 link