POLT 335 - Seminar: Rethinking Collectivity: Contemporary Continental Political Theory

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Courses
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS

After two world wars, the Holocaust, anticolonial movements, and totalitarianism, thinkers in twentieth-century Europe started to question the idea of humans as the rational creators of a better world. This questioning also informed the ideas of collectivity and agency: how can we rethink transformative collective agency? This seminar considers the humanist, anticolonial, structuralist, feminist, and post-structuralist responses to this question. It explores how thinkers from these perspectives offered alternative ideas of collectivity and agency and, in so doing, redefined other key concepts such as self, power, action, emancipation, and democracy.

Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: S. Gercek

Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: One course in the humanities and social sciences.