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Classical Political Thought

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Required Reading:
1. Plato, Republic
2. Aristotle, Politics and Nicomachean Ethics

B. Modern Political Thought

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1. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Books I & II)

2. John Locke, The Second Treatise on Government
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourse on Inequality
4. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Part One [all], Part Two [I
[all], II [1 & 2], III [1], IV [all]], V [1-4])
5. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
6. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
7. Karl Marx, Das Kapital (Capital)

C. American Political Thought

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1. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, The Federalist Papers

2. Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America Vol 1, Chapters IV, IX, XII, XIV, XVII;
Vol. 2, Book 1:Chapters I-V,VIII-X, Book 2: Chapters I-XX, Book 3: Chapters I-VIII, XIXIII, XV and Book 4: Chapters I-VIII
3. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
4. Walter Lippmann, The Public Philosophy
5. John C. Calhoun, A Disquisition on Government
6. Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
7. C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite
8. Robert A. Dahl, A Preface to Democratic Theory

D. Post-Modern Political Theory

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1. Richard Bernstein, The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory

2. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things
3. David Rubinstein, Marx and Wittgenstein
4. Quentin Skinner, The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences
5. Michael Shapiro, Language and Politics