2021-2022 Academic Catalog 
    
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2021-2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSCI 203 - Political Theorists and their Theories


Focuses on one or two people whose theories have influenced ideas about power, governing, liberty, equality and justice. Explores their lives and the societies and events that shaped their ideas. Theorists who have been featured include Hannah Arendt, Alexis de Tocqueville, Erich Fromm, Karl Marx and Plato. Spring 2022 semester’s topic is 19th and 20th century radical political thought. Readings include anarchist, communist, neo-Marxist, and fascist political thought and some critiques of them.

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Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically