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The Modern Political Tradition : Hobbes to Habermas

Cahoone, Lawrence E., 1954- Book on CD - 2014 BOCD 320.01 Ca Oversize 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Compact discs.
Course no. 4750.
Origins and conflicts of modern politics -- Ancient republics, empires, fiefdoms -- Machiavelli's New Order -- Hobbes, Natural Law, the Social Contract -- Locke on limited government and toleration -- Rousseau's republican community -- Kant's Ethics of Duty and Natural rights -- Smith and the market revolution -- Montesquieu and the American founding -- Debating the French Revolution -- Legacies of the revolution--right to left -- Nationalism and a people's war -- Civil Society--Constant, Hegel, Tocqueville -- Mill on liberty and utility -- Marx's critique of capitalism -- Modern vs. traditional society -- Progressivism and new liberalism -- Fleeing liberalism--varieties of socialism -- Fleeing liberalism--Fascism and Carl Schmitt -- Totalitarianism and total war -- Conservative or neoliberal--Oakeshott, Hayek -- Reviving the public realm--Hannah Arendt -- Philosophy vs. politics--Strauss and friends -- Marcuse and the new left -- Rawls's A theory of justice -- Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, libertarianism -- What about community? -- Walzer on everything money shouldn't buy -- Identity politics--feminism -- Identity politics--multiculturalism -- Politics of nature--environmentalism -- Postmodernism, truth, and power -- Habermas--Democracy as communication -- End of history? Clash of civilizations? -- Just wars? the problem of dirty hands -- Why political philosophy matters.
Lawrence Cahoone, College of the Holy Cross, lecturer.
Professor Calhoone explores modern and contemporary western philosophy of reality (metaphysics) and knowledge (epistemology), from the 17th to the 20th century, spanning movements such as empircism, rationalism, idealism, philosophy of language, logical positivism, existentialism, pragmatism, phenomenology, and postmodernism.

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SERIES
Great courses. Philosophy & intellectual history.



PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 18 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (290 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1629970727
9781629970721

SUBJECTS
Political science -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, Modern.