5. Reflected upon the implications of ideas from the history of political thought for contemporary politics.
This module will introduce students to the history of political thought from the 17th century to the present day.
Boucher, David and Kelly, Paul, eds. Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Rawls, John. Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2007.
S. S. Wolin, Politics and Vision, , Expanded Edition, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004 consists of a series of sophisticated interpretative essays. A serious work, well worth close study.
Classics of Moral and Political Theory, Michael L. Morgan (ed.), Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis (Cambridge,1992).
(This is an excellent collection of, in many cases, the complete texts of the relevant political thinkers).