Political Science (PSCI)
Department of Political Science Faculty of Public Affairs
PSCI 4305 [1.0 credit]
Contemporary Political Theory
Recent work in political theory, stressing major approaches to the understanding of contemporary political life such as historicism, the sociology of knowledge, positivism, phenomenology, critical theory, existentialism, neo-classicism. Works by such thinkers as Gramsci, Mannheim, Popper, Strauss, Cassirer, Habermas, Sartre, and Voegelin.Prerequisite: fourth-year Honours standing and one of GPOL 1000 or PSCI 2300 or permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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