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1 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

POLITICS and INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

POLITICAL THINKERS 2017-18

PLIT08011

2 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Contents

Teaching Team and Administrative Contact Details 3

Assessment at a glance 4

Course Schedule 5

Course Aims and Outcomes 6

Course Content 7

Course Structure 9

Bootcamp 9

Course Assessment 10

Assessment Criteria 11

Reading List 12

Hobbes 12

Locke 14

Marx 16

Mill 18

de Beauvoir 20

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi 22

Arendt 24

Fanon and Du Bois 26

Nehru and Gandhi 28

Rawls 30

Essay Referencing 32

Administrative Guidance 34

Appendix 1 ndash General Information 34

Students with Disabilities 34

Learning Resources for Undergraduates 34

Discussing Sensitive Topics 34

Tutorial Allocation 35

Requesting a group change 35

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties 35

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them 35

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework 36

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4 36

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts 36

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism 37

Data Protection Guidance for Students 37

3 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Teaching Team and Administrative Contact Details

Course Convenor

Dr Philip Cook

Email philipcookedacuk

Room 329 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 4pm-6pm (or by appointment please email)

Course Lecturers

Dr Lucy Abbott

Email lucyabbottedacuk

Room 310 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 330pm-530pm (or by appointment please email)

Dr Elizabeth Cripps

Email elizabethcrippsedacuk

Room 330 Crystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Thursdays 9am-11am (or by appointment please email)

Dr Andrew Hom

Email andrewhomedacuk

Room 303 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours 9am-11am Wednesdays (Room 319 ndash 3rd floor breakout or by

appointment please email)

Dr Harshan Kumarasingham

Email harshankumarasinghamedacuk

Room 304 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Wednesdays 10am-12pm (or by appointment please email)

Prof Nasar Meer

Email nasarmeeredacuk

Room 22a Buccleuch Place

Guidance and Feedback Hours please email for appointment

Dr Mihaela Mihai

Email mihaelamihaiedacuk

Room 321 18 Buccleuch Place

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 3pm-5pm (or by appointment please email)

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Email mmrovljeexseededacuk

Room 322 18 Buccleuch Place

Guidance and Feedback Hours Fridays 23rd February amp 9th March 1100am -1300pm (or by

appointment please email)

Dr Kieran Oberman

Email kieranobermanedacuk

Room 423 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 3pm-5pm (or by appointment please email)

4 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Dr Ewan Stein

Email ewansteinedacuk

Room 427 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Monday and Wednesday 12pm-1pm (or by appointment please email)

Senior Tutor

Dr Andrew Drever

Email andrewdreveredacuk

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 1500-1700 CMB Breakout Room 5

Course Secretary

Kasia Pietrzak

Email KPietrzakedacuk

Room Undergraduate Teaching Office Room G04-05 CMB

Assessment at a glance

Assessment Assessment

weighting

Submission Date (all course work is due at 12 noon

on the date of submission)

Return of

Feedback date

Essay

(2000

words limit)

50 260218 160318

Exam 50 Exam dates are set by Student Administration Exam

diet information can be found at

httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationexamsexam-diets

Students are responsible for knowing the time date and

location of their exams

Dates will be

published closer

to the time

Note All coursework is submitted electronically through ELMA Please read the School Policies and Coursework

Submission Procedures which you will find here

External Examiner Dr Iseult Honohan (University College Dublin)

5 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Schedule

Week Date Topic Lecturer Tutorial

1 Monday 15th January Short Intro ndash Hobbes Dr Philip Cook

Dr Elizabeth Cripps

No Tutorials

1 Thursday 18th January Hobbes Dr Mihaela Mihai

2 Monday 22rd January Locke Dr Philip Cook Hobbes

2 Thursday 25th January Locke Dr Mihaela Mihai

3 Monday 29th January Marx Dr Philip Cook Locke

3 Thursday 1st February Marx Dr Philip Cook

4 Monday 5th February Mill Dr Elizabeth Cripps Marx

4 Thursday 8th February Mill Dr Kieran Oberman

5 Monday 12th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje Mill

5 Thursday 15th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

6 Monday 26th February Qutb and Islamic Thought Dr Ewan Stein de Beauvoir

6 Thursday 1st March Zaynab al Ghazali amp Huda

Sharsquorawi gender in Islamic

Political Thought

Dr Lucy Abbott

7 Monday 5th March Arendt Dr Masa Mrovlje Qutb amp Zainab

Al-Ghazali 7 Thursday 8th March Arendt Dr Andrew Hom

8 Monday 12th March Fanon Dr Mihaela Mihai Arendt

8 Thursday 15th March Du Bois Pr Nasar Meer

9 Monday 19th March Nehru Dr Harshan

Kumarashingham

FanonDu Bois

9 Thursday 22nd March Gandhi Dr Philip Cook

10 Monday 26th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook GandhiNehru

10 Thursday 29th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook

11 Monday 2nd April Revision Lecture Rawls

11 Thursday 5th April

Please note that most thinkers are presented across two lectures

There are three exceptions

The Qutb and Islamic ThoughtZaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

FanonDu Bois

NehruGandhi

Though each lecture will cover different thinkers each pair of lectures will be presented as closely

related to each other

These sets of lectures outlined above will be considered as pairs for the purposes of tutorials and the

format of the exam (please see section below lsquoCourse Assessmentrsquo for further information)

6 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Aims and Outcomes

The course has four main aims

1) to develop studentsrsquo ability to think rigorously and critically about the fundamental questions of

politics and international relations In particular we focus on the moral aspects of politics and

international relations Students will be introduced to a broad range of approaches to thinking about

politics from different historical cultural and international perspectives We consider such

questions as

a What is the ethical basis of the state and other important political institutions

b How should we understand the moral relations between members of states and between

states

c How do ethical and religious perspectives on politics affect our understanding of political

values

d Can colonialism ever be justified What is the appropriate response to colonialism

e Is gender inequality fundamental to existing dominant political theories and institutions

f What challenges do racial inequality present to our understanding of a just society

g What is justice and what principles of justice should societies adopt

2) to introduce students to the main arguments and claims made by some of the most influential

thinkers of the past from a wide range of perspective whose thinking continues to inform current

thought and practice in politics and in international relations

3) to introduce students to critical perspectives on key issues in the theory and practice of politics and

international relations including race gender and colonialism

4) to provide structured help and advice on succeeding in the tutorials and assessment We will provide

workshops and activities to help all students gain practice and further understanding of how to do

well in the essays and exams

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course students will have had the opportunity to

Engage critically and reflectively with a range of theoretical debates

Develop their ability to assess a variety of perspectives and theoretical arguments

Familiarise themselves with some of the key claims made by historically influential thinkers and

commentators

Equip themselves with the skills and knowledge required for the interpretation and analysis of

theoretical texts

Acquire the background understanding of the development of key concepts that will enable them to

contextualise their later learning in succeeding studies in politics and international relations

7 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Content

Thinkers and Themes

Generally we study in detail the works of particular thinkers who have made significant contributions to our

understanding of politics We normally take two lectures to discuss each thinker and each tutorial is

dedicated to one thinker

The main exceptions are the lectures in week 7 (Qutb and Islamic Political Thought) week 8 (Fanon and Du

Bois) and week 9 (Nehru amp the Nehruvia World and Gandhi) These lectures are more thematic but the

range of thinkers and ideas will be closely related We will provide clear guidance on how to prepare

properly for the tutorial related to these thinkers

This year we will also address key themes across the thinkers we are examining These themes are

Religion and Politics

Violence and Non-Violence in Political Conflict

Gender

Race

Colonialism

We will point out where relevant how different thinkers responded to these issues and students will be able

to answer an exam question comparing several thinkers relating to these themes

Readings

This course is supported by a Resource List This will be accessible through the Learn site for the course

The Resource List will provide easy access to the readings including all e-books electronic journal articles

scanned readings and library catalogue links to lsquohard-copyrsquo items

Each week the Essential Tutorial Readings will all be available electronically so you should not need to

buy a text-book

If you wish to buy a book we recommend Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present eds David

Boucher and Paul Kelly It contains chapters on a number of the thinkers addressed in this course (Hobbes

Locke Mill Marx Rawls) has chapters on other thinkers that many students will encounter in other

courses and will help you a great deal in building a deep and broad understanding of the contextual

development of western political thought

How to Use the Reading List

This course does require students to read widely We recognize that students have many demands during

term-time so we have tried to help make the reading easier to manage by selecting shorter key passages that

are essential for tutorial preparation These are identified as lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo

We have then identified further readings that should be consulted when preparing essays and exams

Students will be expected to read the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo in preparation for the tutorial but we

do not expect students to read beyond these for the tutorials However we do expect students to read beyond

8 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

these for the essays and exams To help students understand which text to read in preparation for essays and

exams we have identified these as lsquoEssential Wider Thinker (eg Hobbes) Readings for Essays and

Examsrsquo

Students should also read items listed in the Recommended Readings and Further Readings in

preparation for Essays and Exams Students should prioritise readings in the Recommended Readings and

read as widely as they are able

We have also identified some important lsquoRecommended Readingsrsquo that provide particularly interesting

debates about the thinkers we are discussing We have highlighted these as lsquoDisputesrsquo It will be helpful for

students to read these carefully and engage with them in essays and exams as they are an excellent starting

point for critical evaluation of our thinkers They will also feature prominently in the lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions as

we learn how to write good essays and exam answers on this course (see further information below on

lsquoBootcamprsquo)

We have provided an extensive list of readings in the course guide and Resource List and we do not expect

students to identify readings from beyond the readings suggested here We strongly recommend that

you select appropriate materials from this reading list and study them carefully in order to prepare for your

essays and exams If you do identify readings from beyond this reading list and wish to include them in your

essaysexams we recommend that you check with your tutor in advance as they will be able to advise you if

they are suitable

The main reason for this advice is that there is a large amount of material related to these thinkers

(especially on the internet) and much of it is polemical and used for ideological purposes in various debates

It can be hard to evaluate the scholarly status of material related to this course and so to avoid

inadvertently using questionable or contentious sources we recommend you stick closely to the

recommended readings in this course guide

In short

Read lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the tutorials

Read lsquoEssential Wider Thinker Readings for Essays and Examsrsquo in addition to lsquoEssential

Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the essays and exams

Read widely from Recommended and Further readings including the lsquoDisputesrsquo readings

in preparation for Essays and Exams

Essays and exams that are based only on the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo will do badly as

they demonstrate limited engagement with the substantive material on the course

9 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Structure

LECTURES

The course is taught in Weeks 1-5 and 6-11 of Semester 2 (please see the Course Schedule above for

detailed information on dates)

It has two lectures a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 1510-1600 held in the George Square

Lecture Theatre

Lectures commence in Week 1 (week beginning Monday 15th January 2018)

Each week there will also be an additional and optional session held on Tuesdays at 1510-1600 in

George Square Lecture Theatre These are called lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions and focus on writing essays

and exams They will include activities and feedback on essential skills to do well in the course See

further information on Bootcamp below

Please note that there will be no lectures or tutorials during the Festival of Creative Learning

(Semester Week 6 19th ndash 23rd February)

The lectures will introduce you to the main ideas of the theorists who are discussed each week setting their

work in the appropriate context explaining key claims and concepts and showing how they contribute to the

broad theoretical question being addressed You will get a great deal more out of the lectures if you have

already read the key readings even if only in a preliminary way

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are the primary forum for discussion deliberation and debate on the thinkers and themes of the

course The tutorials start in Week 2 until run until Week 11

Tutorials are an integral part of the course Your participation in tutorials is essential and if you fail to

attend on more than two consecutive occasions without reasonable explanation your Personal Tutor will be

informed

Please see the Course Schedule above for information on the tutorial topics and schedule

Bootcamp

The Bootcamp sessions are held every Tuesday 310pm-4pm George Square Lecture Theatre They are

designed to provide detailed and practical help on writing essays and exams for this course

These sessions are optional but highly recommended We study closely the assessment criteria for the

essays and exams and how to fulfil these successful in practice with concrete examples and exercises Each

session will have feedback and advice on the exercises completed Further information will be available on

the Learn site for the course

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

2 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Contents

Teaching Team and Administrative Contact Details 3

Assessment at a glance 4

Course Schedule 5

Course Aims and Outcomes 6

Course Content 7

Course Structure 9

Bootcamp 9

Course Assessment 10

Assessment Criteria 11

Reading List 12

Hobbes 12

Locke 14

Marx 16

Mill 18

de Beauvoir 20

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi 22

Arendt 24

Fanon and Du Bois 26

Nehru and Gandhi 28

Rawls 30

Essay Referencing 32

Administrative Guidance 34

Appendix 1 ndash General Information 34

Students with Disabilities 34

Learning Resources for Undergraduates 34

Discussing Sensitive Topics 34

Tutorial Allocation 35

Requesting a group change 35

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties 35

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them 35

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework 36

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4 36

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts 36

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism 37

Data Protection Guidance for Students 37

3 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Teaching Team and Administrative Contact Details

Course Convenor

Dr Philip Cook

Email philipcookedacuk

Room 329 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 4pm-6pm (or by appointment please email)

Course Lecturers

Dr Lucy Abbott

Email lucyabbottedacuk

Room 310 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 330pm-530pm (or by appointment please email)

Dr Elizabeth Cripps

Email elizabethcrippsedacuk

Room 330 Crystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Thursdays 9am-11am (or by appointment please email)

Dr Andrew Hom

Email andrewhomedacuk

Room 303 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours 9am-11am Wednesdays (Room 319 ndash 3rd floor breakout or by

appointment please email)

Dr Harshan Kumarasingham

Email harshankumarasinghamedacuk

Room 304 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Wednesdays 10am-12pm (or by appointment please email)

Prof Nasar Meer

Email nasarmeeredacuk

Room 22a Buccleuch Place

Guidance and Feedback Hours please email for appointment

Dr Mihaela Mihai

Email mihaelamihaiedacuk

Room 321 18 Buccleuch Place

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 3pm-5pm (or by appointment please email)

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Email mmrovljeexseededacuk

Room 322 18 Buccleuch Place

Guidance and Feedback Hours Fridays 23rd February amp 9th March 1100am -1300pm (or by

appointment please email)

Dr Kieran Oberman

Email kieranobermanedacuk

Room 423 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 3pm-5pm (or by appointment please email)

4 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Dr Ewan Stein

Email ewansteinedacuk

Room 427 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Monday and Wednesday 12pm-1pm (or by appointment please email)

Senior Tutor

Dr Andrew Drever

Email andrewdreveredacuk

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 1500-1700 CMB Breakout Room 5

Course Secretary

Kasia Pietrzak

Email KPietrzakedacuk

Room Undergraduate Teaching Office Room G04-05 CMB

Assessment at a glance

Assessment Assessment

weighting

Submission Date (all course work is due at 12 noon

on the date of submission)

Return of

Feedback date

Essay

(2000

words limit)

50 260218 160318

Exam 50 Exam dates are set by Student Administration Exam

diet information can be found at

httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationexamsexam-diets

Students are responsible for knowing the time date and

location of their exams

Dates will be

published closer

to the time

Note All coursework is submitted electronically through ELMA Please read the School Policies and Coursework

Submission Procedures which you will find here

External Examiner Dr Iseult Honohan (University College Dublin)

5 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Schedule

Week Date Topic Lecturer Tutorial

1 Monday 15th January Short Intro ndash Hobbes Dr Philip Cook

Dr Elizabeth Cripps

No Tutorials

1 Thursday 18th January Hobbes Dr Mihaela Mihai

2 Monday 22rd January Locke Dr Philip Cook Hobbes

2 Thursday 25th January Locke Dr Mihaela Mihai

3 Monday 29th January Marx Dr Philip Cook Locke

3 Thursday 1st February Marx Dr Philip Cook

4 Monday 5th February Mill Dr Elizabeth Cripps Marx

4 Thursday 8th February Mill Dr Kieran Oberman

5 Monday 12th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje Mill

5 Thursday 15th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

6 Monday 26th February Qutb and Islamic Thought Dr Ewan Stein de Beauvoir

6 Thursday 1st March Zaynab al Ghazali amp Huda

Sharsquorawi gender in Islamic

Political Thought

Dr Lucy Abbott

7 Monday 5th March Arendt Dr Masa Mrovlje Qutb amp Zainab

Al-Ghazali 7 Thursday 8th March Arendt Dr Andrew Hom

8 Monday 12th March Fanon Dr Mihaela Mihai Arendt

8 Thursday 15th March Du Bois Pr Nasar Meer

9 Monday 19th March Nehru Dr Harshan

Kumarashingham

FanonDu Bois

9 Thursday 22nd March Gandhi Dr Philip Cook

10 Monday 26th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook GandhiNehru

10 Thursday 29th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook

11 Monday 2nd April Revision Lecture Rawls

11 Thursday 5th April

Please note that most thinkers are presented across two lectures

There are three exceptions

The Qutb and Islamic ThoughtZaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

FanonDu Bois

NehruGandhi

Though each lecture will cover different thinkers each pair of lectures will be presented as closely

related to each other

These sets of lectures outlined above will be considered as pairs for the purposes of tutorials and the

format of the exam (please see section below lsquoCourse Assessmentrsquo for further information)

6 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Aims and Outcomes

The course has four main aims

1) to develop studentsrsquo ability to think rigorously and critically about the fundamental questions of

politics and international relations In particular we focus on the moral aspects of politics and

international relations Students will be introduced to a broad range of approaches to thinking about

politics from different historical cultural and international perspectives We consider such

questions as

a What is the ethical basis of the state and other important political institutions

b How should we understand the moral relations between members of states and between

states

c How do ethical and religious perspectives on politics affect our understanding of political

values

d Can colonialism ever be justified What is the appropriate response to colonialism

e Is gender inequality fundamental to existing dominant political theories and institutions

f What challenges do racial inequality present to our understanding of a just society

g What is justice and what principles of justice should societies adopt

2) to introduce students to the main arguments and claims made by some of the most influential

thinkers of the past from a wide range of perspective whose thinking continues to inform current

thought and practice in politics and in international relations

3) to introduce students to critical perspectives on key issues in the theory and practice of politics and

international relations including race gender and colonialism

4) to provide structured help and advice on succeeding in the tutorials and assessment We will provide

workshops and activities to help all students gain practice and further understanding of how to do

well in the essays and exams

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course students will have had the opportunity to

Engage critically and reflectively with a range of theoretical debates

Develop their ability to assess a variety of perspectives and theoretical arguments

Familiarise themselves with some of the key claims made by historically influential thinkers and

commentators

Equip themselves with the skills and knowledge required for the interpretation and analysis of

theoretical texts

Acquire the background understanding of the development of key concepts that will enable them to

contextualise their later learning in succeeding studies in politics and international relations

7 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Content

Thinkers and Themes

Generally we study in detail the works of particular thinkers who have made significant contributions to our

understanding of politics We normally take two lectures to discuss each thinker and each tutorial is

dedicated to one thinker

The main exceptions are the lectures in week 7 (Qutb and Islamic Political Thought) week 8 (Fanon and Du

Bois) and week 9 (Nehru amp the Nehruvia World and Gandhi) These lectures are more thematic but the

range of thinkers and ideas will be closely related We will provide clear guidance on how to prepare

properly for the tutorial related to these thinkers

This year we will also address key themes across the thinkers we are examining These themes are

Religion and Politics

Violence and Non-Violence in Political Conflict

Gender

Race

Colonialism

We will point out where relevant how different thinkers responded to these issues and students will be able

to answer an exam question comparing several thinkers relating to these themes

Readings

This course is supported by a Resource List This will be accessible through the Learn site for the course

The Resource List will provide easy access to the readings including all e-books electronic journal articles

scanned readings and library catalogue links to lsquohard-copyrsquo items

Each week the Essential Tutorial Readings will all be available electronically so you should not need to

buy a text-book

If you wish to buy a book we recommend Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present eds David

Boucher and Paul Kelly It contains chapters on a number of the thinkers addressed in this course (Hobbes

Locke Mill Marx Rawls) has chapters on other thinkers that many students will encounter in other

courses and will help you a great deal in building a deep and broad understanding of the contextual

development of western political thought

How to Use the Reading List

This course does require students to read widely We recognize that students have many demands during

term-time so we have tried to help make the reading easier to manage by selecting shorter key passages that

are essential for tutorial preparation These are identified as lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo

We have then identified further readings that should be consulted when preparing essays and exams

Students will be expected to read the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo in preparation for the tutorial but we

do not expect students to read beyond these for the tutorials However we do expect students to read beyond

8 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

these for the essays and exams To help students understand which text to read in preparation for essays and

exams we have identified these as lsquoEssential Wider Thinker (eg Hobbes) Readings for Essays and

Examsrsquo

Students should also read items listed in the Recommended Readings and Further Readings in

preparation for Essays and Exams Students should prioritise readings in the Recommended Readings and

read as widely as they are able

We have also identified some important lsquoRecommended Readingsrsquo that provide particularly interesting

debates about the thinkers we are discussing We have highlighted these as lsquoDisputesrsquo It will be helpful for

students to read these carefully and engage with them in essays and exams as they are an excellent starting

point for critical evaluation of our thinkers They will also feature prominently in the lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions as

we learn how to write good essays and exam answers on this course (see further information below on

lsquoBootcamprsquo)

We have provided an extensive list of readings in the course guide and Resource List and we do not expect

students to identify readings from beyond the readings suggested here We strongly recommend that

you select appropriate materials from this reading list and study them carefully in order to prepare for your

essays and exams If you do identify readings from beyond this reading list and wish to include them in your

essaysexams we recommend that you check with your tutor in advance as they will be able to advise you if

they are suitable

The main reason for this advice is that there is a large amount of material related to these thinkers

(especially on the internet) and much of it is polemical and used for ideological purposes in various debates

It can be hard to evaluate the scholarly status of material related to this course and so to avoid

inadvertently using questionable or contentious sources we recommend you stick closely to the

recommended readings in this course guide

In short

Read lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the tutorials

Read lsquoEssential Wider Thinker Readings for Essays and Examsrsquo in addition to lsquoEssential

Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the essays and exams

Read widely from Recommended and Further readings including the lsquoDisputesrsquo readings

in preparation for Essays and Exams

Essays and exams that are based only on the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo will do badly as

they demonstrate limited engagement with the substantive material on the course

9 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Structure

LECTURES

The course is taught in Weeks 1-5 and 6-11 of Semester 2 (please see the Course Schedule above for

detailed information on dates)

It has two lectures a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 1510-1600 held in the George Square

Lecture Theatre

Lectures commence in Week 1 (week beginning Monday 15th January 2018)

Each week there will also be an additional and optional session held on Tuesdays at 1510-1600 in

George Square Lecture Theatre These are called lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions and focus on writing essays

and exams They will include activities and feedback on essential skills to do well in the course See

further information on Bootcamp below

Please note that there will be no lectures or tutorials during the Festival of Creative Learning

(Semester Week 6 19th ndash 23rd February)

The lectures will introduce you to the main ideas of the theorists who are discussed each week setting their

work in the appropriate context explaining key claims and concepts and showing how they contribute to the

broad theoretical question being addressed You will get a great deal more out of the lectures if you have

already read the key readings even if only in a preliminary way

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are the primary forum for discussion deliberation and debate on the thinkers and themes of the

course The tutorials start in Week 2 until run until Week 11

Tutorials are an integral part of the course Your participation in tutorials is essential and if you fail to

attend on more than two consecutive occasions without reasonable explanation your Personal Tutor will be

informed

Please see the Course Schedule above for information on the tutorial topics and schedule

Bootcamp

The Bootcamp sessions are held every Tuesday 310pm-4pm George Square Lecture Theatre They are

designed to provide detailed and practical help on writing essays and exams for this course

These sessions are optional but highly recommended We study closely the assessment criteria for the

essays and exams and how to fulfil these successful in practice with concrete examples and exercises Each

session will have feedback and advice on the exercises completed Further information will be available on

the Learn site for the course

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

3 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Teaching Team and Administrative Contact Details

Course Convenor

Dr Philip Cook

Email philipcookedacuk

Room 329 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 4pm-6pm (or by appointment please email)

Course Lecturers

Dr Lucy Abbott

Email lucyabbottedacuk

Room 310 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 330pm-530pm (or by appointment please email)

Dr Elizabeth Cripps

Email elizabethcrippsedacuk

Room 330 Crystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Thursdays 9am-11am (or by appointment please email)

Dr Andrew Hom

Email andrewhomedacuk

Room 303 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours 9am-11am Wednesdays (Room 319 ndash 3rd floor breakout or by

appointment please email)

Dr Harshan Kumarasingham

Email harshankumarasinghamedacuk

Room 304 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Wednesdays 10am-12pm (or by appointment please email)

Prof Nasar Meer

Email nasarmeeredacuk

Room 22a Buccleuch Place

Guidance and Feedback Hours please email for appointment

Dr Mihaela Mihai

Email mihaelamihaiedacuk

Room 321 18 Buccleuch Place

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 3pm-5pm (or by appointment please email)

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Email mmrovljeexseededacuk

Room 322 18 Buccleuch Place

Guidance and Feedback Hours Fridays 23rd February amp 9th March 1100am -1300pm (or by

appointment please email)

Dr Kieran Oberman

Email kieranobermanedacuk

Room 423 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 3pm-5pm (or by appointment please email)

4 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Dr Ewan Stein

Email ewansteinedacuk

Room 427 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Monday and Wednesday 12pm-1pm (or by appointment please email)

Senior Tutor

Dr Andrew Drever

Email andrewdreveredacuk

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 1500-1700 CMB Breakout Room 5

Course Secretary

Kasia Pietrzak

Email KPietrzakedacuk

Room Undergraduate Teaching Office Room G04-05 CMB

Assessment at a glance

Assessment Assessment

weighting

Submission Date (all course work is due at 12 noon

on the date of submission)

Return of

Feedback date

Essay

(2000

words limit)

50 260218 160318

Exam 50 Exam dates are set by Student Administration Exam

diet information can be found at

httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationexamsexam-diets

Students are responsible for knowing the time date and

location of their exams

Dates will be

published closer

to the time

Note All coursework is submitted electronically through ELMA Please read the School Policies and Coursework

Submission Procedures which you will find here

External Examiner Dr Iseult Honohan (University College Dublin)

5 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Schedule

Week Date Topic Lecturer Tutorial

1 Monday 15th January Short Intro ndash Hobbes Dr Philip Cook

Dr Elizabeth Cripps

No Tutorials

1 Thursday 18th January Hobbes Dr Mihaela Mihai

2 Monday 22rd January Locke Dr Philip Cook Hobbes

2 Thursday 25th January Locke Dr Mihaela Mihai

3 Monday 29th January Marx Dr Philip Cook Locke

3 Thursday 1st February Marx Dr Philip Cook

4 Monday 5th February Mill Dr Elizabeth Cripps Marx

4 Thursday 8th February Mill Dr Kieran Oberman

5 Monday 12th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje Mill

5 Thursday 15th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

6 Monday 26th February Qutb and Islamic Thought Dr Ewan Stein de Beauvoir

6 Thursday 1st March Zaynab al Ghazali amp Huda

Sharsquorawi gender in Islamic

Political Thought

Dr Lucy Abbott

7 Monday 5th March Arendt Dr Masa Mrovlje Qutb amp Zainab

Al-Ghazali 7 Thursday 8th March Arendt Dr Andrew Hom

8 Monday 12th March Fanon Dr Mihaela Mihai Arendt

8 Thursday 15th March Du Bois Pr Nasar Meer

9 Monday 19th March Nehru Dr Harshan

Kumarashingham

FanonDu Bois

9 Thursday 22nd March Gandhi Dr Philip Cook

10 Monday 26th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook GandhiNehru

10 Thursday 29th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook

11 Monday 2nd April Revision Lecture Rawls

11 Thursday 5th April

Please note that most thinkers are presented across two lectures

There are three exceptions

The Qutb and Islamic ThoughtZaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

FanonDu Bois

NehruGandhi

Though each lecture will cover different thinkers each pair of lectures will be presented as closely

related to each other

These sets of lectures outlined above will be considered as pairs for the purposes of tutorials and the

format of the exam (please see section below lsquoCourse Assessmentrsquo for further information)

6 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Aims and Outcomes

The course has four main aims

1) to develop studentsrsquo ability to think rigorously and critically about the fundamental questions of

politics and international relations In particular we focus on the moral aspects of politics and

international relations Students will be introduced to a broad range of approaches to thinking about

politics from different historical cultural and international perspectives We consider such

questions as

a What is the ethical basis of the state and other important political institutions

b How should we understand the moral relations between members of states and between

states

c How do ethical and religious perspectives on politics affect our understanding of political

values

d Can colonialism ever be justified What is the appropriate response to colonialism

e Is gender inequality fundamental to existing dominant political theories and institutions

f What challenges do racial inequality present to our understanding of a just society

g What is justice and what principles of justice should societies adopt

2) to introduce students to the main arguments and claims made by some of the most influential

thinkers of the past from a wide range of perspective whose thinking continues to inform current

thought and practice in politics and in international relations

3) to introduce students to critical perspectives on key issues in the theory and practice of politics and

international relations including race gender and colonialism

4) to provide structured help and advice on succeeding in the tutorials and assessment We will provide

workshops and activities to help all students gain practice and further understanding of how to do

well in the essays and exams

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course students will have had the opportunity to

Engage critically and reflectively with a range of theoretical debates

Develop their ability to assess a variety of perspectives and theoretical arguments

Familiarise themselves with some of the key claims made by historically influential thinkers and

commentators

Equip themselves with the skills and knowledge required for the interpretation and analysis of

theoretical texts

Acquire the background understanding of the development of key concepts that will enable them to

contextualise their later learning in succeeding studies in politics and international relations

7 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Content

Thinkers and Themes

Generally we study in detail the works of particular thinkers who have made significant contributions to our

understanding of politics We normally take two lectures to discuss each thinker and each tutorial is

dedicated to one thinker

The main exceptions are the lectures in week 7 (Qutb and Islamic Political Thought) week 8 (Fanon and Du

Bois) and week 9 (Nehru amp the Nehruvia World and Gandhi) These lectures are more thematic but the

range of thinkers and ideas will be closely related We will provide clear guidance on how to prepare

properly for the tutorial related to these thinkers

This year we will also address key themes across the thinkers we are examining These themes are

Religion and Politics

Violence and Non-Violence in Political Conflict

Gender

Race

Colonialism

We will point out where relevant how different thinkers responded to these issues and students will be able

to answer an exam question comparing several thinkers relating to these themes

Readings

This course is supported by a Resource List This will be accessible through the Learn site for the course

The Resource List will provide easy access to the readings including all e-books electronic journal articles

scanned readings and library catalogue links to lsquohard-copyrsquo items

Each week the Essential Tutorial Readings will all be available electronically so you should not need to

buy a text-book

If you wish to buy a book we recommend Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present eds David

Boucher and Paul Kelly It contains chapters on a number of the thinkers addressed in this course (Hobbes

Locke Mill Marx Rawls) has chapters on other thinkers that many students will encounter in other

courses and will help you a great deal in building a deep and broad understanding of the contextual

development of western political thought

How to Use the Reading List

This course does require students to read widely We recognize that students have many demands during

term-time so we have tried to help make the reading easier to manage by selecting shorter key passages that

are essential for tutorial preparation These are identified as lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo

We have then identified further readings that should be consulted when preparing essays and exams

Students will be expected to read the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo in preparation for the tutorial but we

do not expect students to read beyond these for the tutorials However we do expect students to read beyond

8 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

these for the essays and exams To help students understand which text to read in preparation for essays and

exams we have identified these as lsquoEssential Wider Thinker (eg Hobbes) Readings for Essays and

Examsrsquo

Students should also read items listed in the Recommended Readings and Further Readings in

preparation for Essays and Exams Students should prioritise readings in the Recommended Readings and

read as widely as they are able

We have also identified some important lsquoRecommended Readingsrsquo that provide particularly interesting

debates about the thinkers we are discussing We have highlighted these as lsquoDisputesrsquo It will be helpful for

students to read these carefully and engage with them in essays and exams as they are an excellent starting

point for critical evaluation of our thinkers They will also feature prominently in the lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions as

we learn how to write good essays and exam answers on this course (see further information below on

lsquoBootcamprsquo)

We have provided an extensive list of readings in the course guide and Resource List and we do not expect

students to identify readings from beyond the readings suggested here We strongly recommend that

you select appropriate materials from this reading list and study them carefully in order to prepare for your

essays and exams If you do identify readings from beyond this reading list and wish to include them in your

essaysexams we recommend that you check with your tutor in advance as they will be able to advise you if

they are suitable

The main reason for this advice is that there is a large amount of material related to these thinkers

(especially on the internet) and much of it is polemical and used for ideological purposes in various debates

It can be hard to evaluate the scholarly status of material related to this course and so to avoid

inadvertently using questionable or contentious sources we recommend you stick closely to the

recommended readings in this course guide

In short

Read lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the tutorials

Read lsquoEssential Wider Thinker Readings for Essays and Examsrsquo in addition to lsquoEssential

Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the essays and exams

Read widely from Recommended and Further readings including the lsquoDisputesrsquo readings

in preparation for Essays and Exams

Essays and exams that are based only on the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo will do badly as

they demonstrate limited engagement with the substantive material on the course

9 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Structure

LECTURES

The course is taught in Weeks 1-5 and 6-11 of Semester 2 (please see the Course Schedule above for

detailed information on dates)

It has two lectures a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 1510-1600 held in the George Square

Lecture Theatre

Lectures commence in Week 1 (week beginning Monday 15th January 2018)

Each week there will also be an additional and optional session held on Tuesdays at 1510-1600 in

George Square Lecture Theatre These are called lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions and focus on writing essays

and exams They will include activities and feedback on essential skills to do well in the course See

further information on Bootcamp below

Please note that there will be no lectures or tutorials during the Festival of Creative Learning

(Semester Week 6 19th ndash 23rd February)

The lectures will introduce you to the main ideas of the theorists who are discussed each week setting their

work in the appropriate context explaining key claims and concepts and showing how they contribute to the

broad theoretical question being addressed You will get a great deal more out of the lectures if you have

already read the key readings even if only in a preliminary way

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are the primary forum for discussion deliberation and debate on the thinkers and themes of the

course The tutorials start in Week 2 until run until Week 11

Tutorials are an integral part of the course Your participation in tutorials is essential and if you fail to

attend on more than two consecutive occasions without reasonable explanation your Personal Tutor will be

informed

Please see the Course Schedule above for information on the tutorial topics and schedule

Bootcamp

The Bootcamp sessions are held every Tuesday 310pm-4pm George Square Lecture Theatre They are

designed to provide detailed and practical help on writing essays and exams for this course

These sessions are optional but highly recommended We study closely the assessment criteria for the

essays and exams and how to fulfil these successful in practice with concrete examples and exercises Each

session will have feedback and advice on the exercises completed Further information will be available on

the Learn site for the course

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

4 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Dr Ewan Stein

Email ewansteinedacuk

Room 427 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square

Guidance and Feedback Hours Monday and Wednesday 12pm-1pm (or by appointment please email)

Senior Tutor

Dr Andrew Drever

Email andrewdreveredacuk

Guidance and Feedback Hours Tuesdays 1500-1700 CMB Breakout Room 5

Course Secretary

Kasia Pietrzak

Email KPietrzakedacuk

Room Undergraduate Teaching Office Room G04-05 CMB

Assessment at a glance

Assessment Assessment

weighting

Submission Date (all course work is due at 12 noon

on the date of submission)

Return of

Feedback date

Essay

(2000

words limit)

50 260218 160318

Exam 50 Exam dates are set by Student Administration Exam

diet information can be found at

httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationexamsexam-diets

Students are responsible for knowing the time date and

location of their exams

Dates will be

published closer

to the time

Note All coursework is submitted electronically through ELMA Please read the School Policies and Coursework

Submission Procedures which you will find here

External Examiner Dr Iseult Honohan (University College Dublin)

5 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Schedule

Week Date Topic Lecturer Tutorial

1 Monday 15th January Short Intro ndash Hobbes Dr Philip Cook

Dr Elizabeth Cripps

No Tutorials

1 Thursday 18th January Hobbes Dr Mihaela Mihai

2 Monday 22rd January Locke Dr Philip Cook Hobbes

2 Thursday 25th January Locke Dr Mihaela Mihai

3 Monday 29th January Marx Dr Philip Cook Locke

3 Thursday 1st February Marx Dr Philip Cook

4 Monday 5th February Mill Dr Elizabeth Cripps Marx

4 Thursday 8th February Mill Dr Kieran Oberman

5 Monday 12th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje Mill

5 Thursday 15th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

6 Monday 26th February Qutb and Islamic Thought Dr Ewan Stein de Beauvoir

6 Thursday 1st March Zaynab al Ghazali amp Huda

Sharsquorawi gender in Islamic

Political Thought

Dr Lucy Abbott

7 Monday 5th March Arendt Dr Masa Mrovlje Qutb amp Zainab

Al-Ghazali 7 Thursday 8th March Arendt Dr Andrew Hom

8 Monday 12th March Fanon Dr Mihaela Mihai Arendt

8 Thursday 15th March Du Bois Pr Nasar Meer

9 Monday 19th March Nehru Dr Harshan

Kumarashingham

FanonDu Bois

9 Thursday 22nd March Gandhi Dr Philip Cook

10 Monday 26th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook GandhiNehru

10 Thursday 29th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook

11 Monday 2nd April Revision Lecture Rawls

11 Thursday 5th April

Please note that most thinkers are presented across two lectures

There are three exceptions

The Qutb and Islamic ThoughtZaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

FanonDu Bois

NehruGandhi

Though each lecture will cover different thinkers each pair of lectures will be presented as closely

related to each other

These sets of lectures outlined above will be considered as pairs for the purposes of tutorials and the

format of the exam (please see section below lsquoCourse Assessmentrsquo for further information)

6 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Aims and Outcomes

The course has four main aims

1) to develop studentsrsquo ability to think rigorously and critically about the fundamental questions of

politics and international relations In particular we focus on the moral aspects of politics and

international relations Students will be introduced to a broad range of approaches to thinking about

politics from different historical cultural and international perspectives We consider such

questions as

a What is the ethical basis of the state and other important political institutions

b How should we understand the moral relations between members of states and between

states

c How do ethical and religious perspectives on politics affect our understanding of political

values

d Can colonialism ever be justified What is the appropriate response to colonialism

e Is gender inequality fundamental to existing dominant political theories and institutions

f What challenges do racial inequality present to our understanding of a just society

g What is justice and what principles of justice should societies adopt

2) to introduce students to the main arguments and claims made by some of the most influential

thinkers of the past from a wide range of perspective whose thinking continues to inform current

thought and practice in politics and in international relations

3) to introduce students to critical perspectives on key issues in the theory and practice of politics and

international relations including race gender and colonialism

4) to provide structured help and advice on succeeding in the tutorials and assessment We will provide

workshops and activities to help all students gain practice and further understanding of how to do

well in the essays and exams

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course students will have had the opportunity to

Engage critically and reflectively with a range of theoretical debates

Develop their ability to assess a variety of perspectives and theoretical arguments

Familiarise themselves with some of the key claims made by historically influential thinkers and

commentators

Equip themselves with the skills and knowledge required for the interpretation and analysis of

theoretical texts

Acquire the background understanding of the development of key concepts that will enable them to

contextualise their later learning in succeeding studies in politics and international relations

7 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Content

Thinkers and Themes

Generally we study in detail the works of particular thinkers who have made significant contributions to our

understanding of politics We normally take two lectures to discuss each thinker and each tutorial is

dedicated to one thinker

The main exceptions are the lectures in week 7 (Qutb and Islamic Political Thought) week 8 (Fanon and Du

Bois) and week 9 (Nehru amp the Nehruvia World and Gandhi) These lectures are more thematic but the

range of thinkers and ideas will be closely related We will provide clear guidance on how to prepare

properly for the tutorial related to these thinkers

This year we will also address key themes across the thinkers we are examining These themes are

Religion and Politics

Violence and Non-Violence in Political Conflict

Gender

Race

Colonialism

We will point out where relevant how different thinkers responded to these issues and students will be able

to answer an exam question comparing several thinkers relating to these themes

Readings

This course is supported by a Resource List This will be accessible through the Learn site for the course

The Resource List will provide easy access to the readings including all e-books electronic journal articles

scanned readings and library catalogue links to lsquohard-copyrsquo items

Each week the Essential Tutorial Readings will all be available electronically so you should not need to

buy a text-book

If you wish to buy a book we recommend Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present eds David

Boucher and Paul Kelly It contains chapters on a number of the thinkers addressed in this course (Hobbes

Locke Mill Marx Rawls) has chapters on other thinkers that many students will encounter in other

courses and will help you a great deal in building a deep and broad understanding of the contextual

development of western political thought

How to Use the Reading List

This course does require students to read widely We recognize that students have many demands during

term-time so we have tried to help make the reading easier to manage by selecting shorter key passages that

are essential for tutorial preparation These are identified as lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo

We have then identified further readings that should be consulted when preparing essays and exams

Students will be expected to read the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo in preparation for the tutorial but we

do not expect students to read beyond these for the tutorials However we do expect students to read beyond

8 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

these for the essays and exams To help students understand which text to read in preparation for essays and

exams we have identified these as lsquoEssential Wider Thinker (eg Hobbes) Readings for Essays and

Examsrsquo

Students should also read items listed in the Recommended Readings and Further Readings in

preparation for Essays and Exams Students should prioritise readings in the Recommended Readings and

read as widely as they are able

We have also identified some important lsquoRecommended Readingsrsquo that provide particularly interesting

debates about the thinkers we are discussing We have highlighted these as lsquoDisputesrsquo It will be helpful for

students to read these carefully and engage with them in essays and exams as they are an excellent starting

point for critical evaluation of our thinkers They will also feature prominently in the lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions as

we learn how to write good essays and exam answers on this course (see further information below on

lsquoBootcamprsquo)

We have provided an extensive list of readings in the course guide and Resource List and we do not expect

students to identify readings from beyond the readings suggested here We strongly recommend that

you select appropriate materials from this reading list and study them carefully in order to prepare for your

essays and exams If you do identify readings from beyond this reading list and wish to include them in your

essaysexams we recommend that you check with your tutor in advance as they will be able to advise you if

they are suitable

The main reason for this advice is that there is a large amount of material related to these thinkers

(especially on the internet) and much of it is polemical and used for ideological purposes in various debates

It can be hard to evaluate the scholarly status of material related to this course and so to avoid

inadvertently using questionable or contentious sources we recommend you stick closely to the

recommended readings in this course guide

In short

Read lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the tutorials

Read lsquoEssential Wider Thinker Readings for Essays and Examsrsquo in addition to lsquoEssential

Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the essays and exams

Read widely from Recommended and Further readings including the lsquoDisputesrsquo readings

in preparation for Essays and Exams

Essays and exams that are based only on the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo will do badly as

they demonstrate limited engagement with the substantive material on the course

9 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Structure

LECTURES

The course is taught in Weeks 1-5 and 6-11 of Semester 2 (please see the Course Schedule above for

detailed information on dates)

It has two lectures a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 1510-1600 held in the George Square

Lecture Theatre

Lectures commence in Week 1 (week beginning Monday 15th January 2018)

Each week there will also be an additional and optional session held on Tuesdays at 1510-1600 in

George Square Lecture Theatre These are called lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions and focus on writing essays

and exams They will include activities and feedback on essential skills to do well in the course See

further information on Bootcamp below

Please note that there will be no lectures or tutorials during the Festival of Creative Learning

(Semester Week 6 19th ndash 23rd February)

The lectures will introduce you to the main ideas of the theorists who are discussed each week setting their

work in the appropriate context explaining key claims and concepts and showing how they contribute to the

broad theoretical question being addressed You will get a great deal more out of the lectures if you have

already read the key readings even if only in a preliminary way

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are the primary forum for discussion deliberation and debate on the thinkers and themes of the

course The tutorials start in Week 2 until run until Week 11

Tutorials are an integral part of the course Your participation in tutorials is essential and if you fail to

attend on more than two consecutive occasions without reasonable explanation your Personal Tutor will be

informed

Please see the Course Schedule above for information on the tutorial topics and schedule

Bootcamp

The Bootcamp sessions are held every Tuesday 310pm-4pm George Square Lecture Theatre They are

designed to provide detailed and practical help on writing essays and exams for this course

These sessions are optional but highly recommended We study closely the assessment criteria for the

essays and exams and how to fulfil these successful in practice with concrete examples and exercises Each

session will have feedback and advice on the exercises completed Further information will be available on

the Learn site for the course

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

5 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Schedule

Week Date Topic Lecturer Tutorial

1 Monday 15th January Short Intro ndash Hobbes Dr Philip Cook

Dr Elizabeth Cripps

No Tutorials

1 Thursday 18th January Hobbes Dr Mihaela Mihai

2 Monday 22rd January Locke Dr Philip Cook Hobbes

2 Thursday 25th January Locke Dr Mihaela Mihai

3 Monday 29th January Marx Dr Philip Cook Locke

3 Thursday 1st February Marx Dr Philip Cook

4 Monday 5th February Mill Dr Elizabeth Cripps Marx

4 Thursday 8th February Mill Dr Kieran Oberman

5 Monday 12th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje Mill

5 Thursday 15th February de Beauvoir Dr Masa Mrovlje

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

- Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative Learning

No Lecture

Festival of Creative

Learning

No Lecture

6 Monday 26th February Qutb and Islamic Thought Dr Ewan Stein de Beauvoir

6 Thursday 1st March Zaynab al Ghazali amp Huda

Sharsquorawi gender in Islamic

Political Thought

Dr Lucy Abbott

7 Monday 5th March Arendt Dr Masa Mrovlje Qutb amp Zainab

Al-Ghazali 7 Thursday 8th March Arendt Dr Andrew Hom

8 Monday 12th March Fanon Dr Mihaela Mihai Arendt

8 Thursday 15th March Du Bois Pr Nasar Meer

9 Monday 19th March Nehru Dr Harshan

Kumarashingham

FanonDu Bois

9 Thursday 22nd March Gandhi Dr Philip Cook

10 Monday 26th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook GandhiNehru

10 Thursday 29th March Rawls Dr Philip Cook

11 Monday 2nd April Revision Lecture Rawls

11 Thursday 5th April

Please note that most thinkers are presented across two lectures

There are three exceptions

The Qutb and Islamic ThoughtZaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

FanonDu Bois

NehruGandhi

Though each lecture will cover different thinkers each pair of lectures will be presented as closely

related to each other

These sets of lectures outlined above will be considered as pairs for the purposes of tutorials and the

format of the exam (please see section below lsquoCourse Assessmentrsquo for further information)

6 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Aims and Outcomes

The course has four main aims

1) to develop studentsrsquo ability to think rigorously and critically about the fundamental questions of

politics and international relations In particular we focus on the moral aspects of politics and

international relations Students will be introduced to a broad range of approaches to thinking about

politics from different historical cultural and international perspectives We consider such

questions as

a What is the ethical basis of the state and other important political institutions

b How should we understand the moral relations between members of states and between

states

c How do ethical and religious perspectives on politics affect our understanding of political

values

d Can colonialism ever be justified What is the appropriate response to colonialism

e Is gender inequality fundamental to existing dominant political theories and institutions

f What challenges do racial inequality present to our understanding of a just society

g What is justice and what principles of justice should societies adopt

2) to introduce students to the main arguments and claims made by some of the most influential

thinkers of the past from a wide range of perspective whose thinking continues to inform current

thought and practice in politics and in international relations

3) to introduce students to critical perspectives on key issues in the theory and practice of politics and

international relations including race gender and colonialism

4) to provide structured help and advice on succeeding in the tutorials and assessment We will provide

workshops and activities to help all students gain practice and further understanding of how to do

well in the essays and exams

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course students will have had the opportunity to

Engage critically and reflectively with a range of theoretical debates

Develop their ability to assess a variety of perspectives and theoretical arguments

Familiarise themselves with some of the key claims made by historically influential thinkers and

commentators

Equip themselves with the skills and knowledge required for the interpretation and analysis of

theoretical texts

Acquire the background understanding of the development of key concepts that will enable them to

contextualise their later learning in succeeding studies in politics and international relations

7 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Content

Thinkers and Themes

Generally we study in detail the works of particular thinkers who have made significant contributions to our

understanding of politics We normally take two lectures to discuss each thinker and each tutorial is

dedicated to one thinker

The main exceptions are the lectures in week 7 (Qutb and Islamic Political Thought) week 8 (Fanon and Du

Bois) and week 9 (Nehru amp the Nehruvia World and Gandhi) These lectures are more thematic but the

range of thinkers and ideas will be closely related We will provide clear guidance on how to prepare

properly for the tutorial related to these thinkers

This year we will also address key themes across the thinkers we are examining These themes are

Religion and Politics

Violence and Non-Violence in Political Conflict

Gender

Race

Colonialism

We will point out where relevant how different thinkers responded to these issues and students will be able

to answer an exam question comparing several thinkers relating to these themes

Readings

This course is supported by a Resource List This will be accessible through the Learn site for the course

The Resource List will provide easy access to the readings including all e-books electronic journal articles

scanned readings and library catalogue links to lsquohard-copyrsquo items

Each week the Essential Tutorial Readings will all be available electronically so you should not need to

buy a text-book

If you wish to buy a book we recommend Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present eds David

Boucher and Paul Kelly It contains chapters on a number of the thinkers addressed in this course (Hobbes

Locke Mill Marx Rawls) has chapters on other thinkers that many students will encounter in other

courses and will help you a great deal in building a deep and broad understanding of the contextual

development of western political thought

How to Use the Reading List

This course does require students to read widely We recognize that students have many demands during

term-time so we have tried to help make the reading easier to manage by selecting shorter key passages that

are essential for tutorial preparation These are identified as lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo

We have then identified further readings that should be consulted when preparing essays and exams

Students will be expected to read the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo in preparation for the tutorial but we

do not expect students to read beyond these for the tutorials However we do expect students to read beyond

8 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

these for the essays and exams To help students understand which text to read in preparation for essays and

exams we have identified these as lsquoEssential Wider Thinker (eg Hobbes) Readings for Essays and

Examsrsquo

Students should also read items listed in the Recommended Readings and Further Readings in

preparation for Essays and Exams Students should prioritise readings in the Recommended Readings and

read as widely as they are able

We have also identified some important lsquoRecommended Readingsrsquo that provide particularly interesting

debates about the thinkers we are discussing We have highlighted these as lsquoDisputesrsquo It will be helpful for

students to read these carefully and engage with them in essays and exams as they are an excellent starting

point for critical evaluation of our thinkers They will also feature prominently in the lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions as

we learn how to write good essays and exam answers on this course (see further information below on

lsquoBootcamprsquo)

We have provided an extensive list of readings in the course guide and Resource List and we do not expect

students to identify readings from beyond the readings suggested here We strongly recommend that

you select appropriate materials from this reading list and study them carefully in order to prepare for your

essays and exams If you do identify readings from beyond this reading list and wish to include them in your

essaysexams we recommend that you check with your tutor in advance as they will be able to advise you if

they are suitable

The main reason for this advice is that there is a large amount of material related to these thinkers

(especially on the internet) and much of it is polemical and used for ideological purposes in various debates

It can be hard to evaluate the scholarly status of material related to this course and so to avoid

inadvertently using questionable or contentious sources we recommend you stick closely to the

recommended readings in this course guide

In short

Read lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the tutorials

Read lsquoEssential Wider Thinker Readings for Essays and Examsrsquo in addition to lsquoEssential

Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the essays and exams

Read widely from Recommended and Further readings including the lsquoDisputesrsquo readings

in preparation for Essays and Exams

Essays and exams that are based only on the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo will do badly as

they demonstrate limited engagement with the substantive material on the course

9 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Structure

LECTURES

The course is taught in Weeks 1-5 and 6-11 of Semester 2 (please see the Course Schedule above for

detailed information on dates)

It has two lectures a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 1510-1600 held in the George Square

Lecture Theatre

Lectures commence in Week 1 (week beginning Monday 15th January 2018)

Each week there will also be an additional and optional session held on Tuesdays at 1510-1600 in

George Square Lecture Theatre These are called lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions and focus on writing essays

and exams They will include activities and feedback on essential skills to do well in the course See

further information on Bootcamp below

Please note that there will be no lectures or tutorials during the Festival of Creative Learning

(Semester Week 6 19th ndash 23rd February)

The lectures will introduce you to the main ideas of the theorists who are discussed each week setting their

work in the appropriate context explaining key claims and concepts and showing how they contribute to the

broad theoretical question being addressed You will get a great deal more out of the lectures if you have

already read the key readings even if only in a preliminary way

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are the primary forum for discussion deliberation and debate on the thinkers and themes of the

course The tutorials start in Week 2 until run until Week 11

Tutorials are an integral part of the course Your participation in tutorials is essential and if you fail to

attend on more than two consecutive occasions without reasonable explanation your Personal Tutor will be

informed

Please see the Course Schedule above for information on the tutorial topics and schedule

Bootcamp

The Bootcamp sessions are held every Tuesday 310pm-4pm George Square Lecture Theatre They are

designed to provide detailed and practical help on writing essays and exams for this course

These sessions are optional but highly recommended We study closely the assessment criteria for the

essays and exams and how to fulfil these successful in practice with concrete examples and exercises Each

session will have feedback and advice on the exercises completed Further information will be available on

the Learn site for the course

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

6 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Aims and Outcomes

The course has four main aims

1) to develop studentsrsquo ability to think rigorously and critically about the fundamental questions of

politics and international relations In particular we focus on the moral aspects of politics and

international relations Students will be introduced to a broad range of approaches to thinking about

politics from different historical cultural and international perspectives We consider such

questions as

a What is the ethical basis of the state and other important political institutions

b How should we understand the moral relations between members of states and between

states

c How do ethical and religious perspectives on politics affect our understanding of political

values

d Can colonialism ever be justified What is the appropriate response to colonialism

e Is gender inequality fundamental to existing dominant political theories and institutions

f What challenges do racial inequality present to our understanding of a just society

g What is justice and what principles of justice should societies adopt

2) to introduce students to the main arguments and claims made by some of the most influential

thinkers of the past from a wide range of perspective whose thinking continues to inform current

thought and practice in politics and in international relations

3) to introduce students to critical perspectives on key issues in the theory and practice of politics and

international relations including race gender and colonialism

4) to provide structured help and advice on succeeding in the tutorials and assessment We will provide

workshops and activities to help all students gain practice and further understanding of how to do

well in the essays and exams

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course students will have had the opportunity to

Engage critically and reflectively with a range of theoretical debates

Develop their ability to assess a variety of perspectives and theoretical arguments

Familiarise themselves with some of the key claims made by historically influential thinkers and

commentators

Equip themselves with the skills and knowledge required for the interpretation and analysis of

theoretical texts

Acquire the background understanding of the development of key concepts that will enable them to

contextualise their later learning in succeeding studies in politics and international relations

7 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Content

Thinkers and Themes

Generally we study in detail the works of particular thinkers who have made significant contributions to our

understanding of politics We normally take two lectures to discuss each thinker and each tutorial is

dedicated to one thinker

The main exceptions are the lectures in week 7 (Qutb and Islamic Political Thought) week 8 (Fanon and Du

Bois) and week 9 (Nehru amp the Nehruvia World and Gandhi) These lectures are more thematic but the

range of thinkers and ideas will be closely related We will provide clear guidance on how to prepare

properly for the tutorial related to these thinkers

This year we will also address key themes across the thinkers we are examining These themes are

Religion and Politics

Violence and Non-Violence in Political Conflict

Gender

Race

Colonialism

We will point out where relevant how different thinkers responded to these issues and students will be able

to answer an exam question comparing several thinkers relating to these themes

Readings

This course is supported by a Resource List This will be accessible through the Learn site for the course

The Resource List will provide easy access to the readings including all e-books electronic journal articles

scanned readings and library catalogue links to lsquohard-copyrsquo items

Each week the Essential Tutorial Readings will all be available electronically so you should not need to

buy a text-book

If you wish to buy a book we recommend Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present eds David

Boucher and Paul Kelly It contains chapters on a number of the thinkers addressed in this course (Hobbes

Locke Mill Marx Rawls) has chapters on other thinkers that many students will encounter in other

courses and will help you a great deal in building a deep and broad understanding of the contextual

development of western political thought

How to Use the Reading List

This course does require students to read widely We recognize that students have many demands during

term-time so we have tried to help make the reading easier to manage by selecting shorter key passages that

are essential for tutorial preparation These are identified as lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo

We have then identified further readings that should be consulted when preparing essays and exams

Students will be expected to read the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo in preparation for the tutorial but we

do not expect students to read beyond these for the tutorials However we do expect students to read beyond

8 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

these for the essays and exams To help students understand which text to read in preparation for essays and

exams we have identified these as lsquoEssential Wider Thinker (eg Hobbes) Readings for Essays and

Examsrsquo

Students should also read items listed in the Recommended Readings and Further Readings in

preparation for Essays and Exams Students should prioritise readings in the Recommended Readings and

read as widely as they are able

We have also identified some important lsquoRecommended Readingsrsquo that provide particularly interesting

debates about the thinkers we are discussing We have highlighted these as lsquoDisputesrsquo It will be helpful for

students to read these carefully and engage with them in essays and exams as they are an excellent starting

point for critical evaluation of our thinkers They will also feature prominently in the lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions as

we learn how to write good essays and exam answers on this course (see further information below on

lsquoBootcamprsquo)

We have provided an extensive list of readings in the course guide and Resource List and we do not expect

students to identify readings from beyond the readings suggested here We strongly recommend that

you select appropriate materials from this reading list and study them carefully in order to prepare for your

essays and exams If you do identify readings from beyond this reading list and wish to include them in your

essaysexams we recommend that you check with your tutor in advance as they will be able to advise you if

they are suitable

The main reason for this advice is that there is a large amount of material related to these thinkers

(especially on the internet) and much of it is polemical and used for ideological purposes in various debates

It can be hard to evaluate the scholarly status of material related to this course and so to avoid

inadvertently using questionable or contentious sources we recommend you stick closely to the

recommended readings in this course guide

In short

Read lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the tutorials

Read lsquoEssential Wider Thinker Readings for Essays and Examsrsquo in addition to lsquoEssential

Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the essays and exams

Read widely from Recommended and Further readings including the lsquoDisputesrsquo readings

in preparation for Essays and Exams

Essays and exams that are based only on the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo will do badly as

they demonstrate limited engagement with the substantive material on the course

9 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Structure

LECTURES

The course is taught in Weeks 1-5 and 6-11 of Semester 2 (please see the Course Schedule above for

detailed information on dates)

It has two lectures a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 1510-1600 held in the George Square

Lecture Theatre

Lectures commence in Week 1 (week beginning Monday 15th January 2018)

Each week there will also be an additional and optional session held on Tuesdays at 1510-1600 in

George Square Lecture Theatre These are called lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions and focus on writing essays

and exams They will include activities and feedback on essential skills to do well in the course See

further information on Bootcamp below

Please note that there will be no lectures or tutorials during the Festival of Creative Learning

(Semester Week 6 19th ndash 23rd February)

The lectures will introduce you to the main ideas of the theorists who are discussed each week setting their

work in the appropriate context explaining key claims and concepts and showing how they contribute to the

broad theoretical question being addressed You will get a great deal more out of the lectures if you have

already read the key readings even if only in a preliminary way

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are the primary forum for discussion deliberation and debate on the thinkers and themes of the

course The tutorials start in Week 2 until run until Week 11

Tutorials are an integral part of the course Your participation in tutorials is essential and if you fail to

attend on more than two consecutive occasions without reasonable explanation your Personal Tutor will be

informed

Please see the Course Schedule above for information on the tutorial topics and schedule

Bootcamp

The Bootcamp sessions are held every Tuesday 310pm-4pm George Square Lecture Theatre They are

designed to provide detailed and practical help on writing essays and exams for this course

These sessions are optional but highly recommended We study closely the assessment criteria for the

essays and exams and how to fulfil these successful in practice with concrete examples and exercises Each

session will have feedback and advice on the exercises completed Further information will be available on

the Learn site for the course

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

7 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Content

Thinkers and Themes

Generally we study in detail the works of particular thinkers who have made significant contributions to our

understanding of politics We normally take two lectures to discuss each thinker and each tutorial is

dedicated to one thinker

The main exceptions are the lectures in week 7 (Qutb and Islamic Political Thought) week 8 (Fanon and Du

Bois) and week 9 (Nehru amp the Nehruvia World and Gandhi) These lectures are more thematic but the

range of thinkers and ideas will be closely related We will provide clear guidance on how to prepare

properly for the tutorial related to these thinkers

This year we will also address key themes across the thinkers we are examining These themes are

Religion and Politics

Violence and Non-Violence in Political Conflict

Gender

Race

Colonialism

We will point out where relevant how different thinkers responded to these issues and students will be able

to answer an exam question comparing several thinkers relating to these themes

Readings

This course is supported by a Resource List This will be accessible through the Learn site for the course

The Resource List will provide easy access to the readings including all e-books electronic journal articles

scanned readings and library catalogue links to lsquohard-copyrsquo items

Each week the Essential Tutorial Readings will all be available electronically so you should not need to

buy a text-book

If you wish to buy a book we recommend Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present eds David

Boucher and Paul Kelly It contains chapters on a number of the thinkers addressed in this course (Hobbes

Locke Mill Marx Rawls) has chapters on other thinkers that many students will encounter in other

courses and will help you a great deal in building a deep and broad understanding of the contextual

development of western political thought

How to Use the Reading List

This course does require students to read widely We recognize that students have many demands during

term-time so we have tried to help make the reading easier to manage by selecting shorter key passages that

are essential for tutorial preparation These are identified as lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo

We have then identified further readings that should be consulted when preparing essays and exams

Students will be expected to read the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo in preparation for the tutorial but we

do not expect students to read beyond these for the tutorials However we do expect students to read beyond

8 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

these for the essays and exams To help students understand which text to read in preparation for essays and

exams we have identified these as lsquoEssential Wider Thinker (eg Hobbes) Readings for Essays and

Examsrsquo

Students should also read items listed in the Recommended Readings and Further Readings in

preparation for Essays and Exams Students should prioritise readings in the Recommended Readings and

read as widely as they are able

We have also identified some important lsquoRecommended Readingsrsquo that provide particularly interesting

debates about the thinkers we are discussing We have highlighted these as lsquoDisputesrsquo It will be helpful for

students to read these carefully and engage with them in essays and exams as they are an excellent starting

point for critical evaluation of our thinkers They will also feature prominently in the lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions as

we learn how to write good essays and exam answers on this course (see further information below on

lsquoBootcamprsquo)

We have provided an extensive list of readings in the course guide and Resource List and we do not expect

students to identify readings from beyond the readings suggested here We strongly recommend that

you select appropriate materials from this reading list and study them carefully in order to prepare for your

essays and exams If you do identify readings from beyond this reading list and wish to include them in your

essaysexams we recommend that you check with your tutor in advance as they will be able to advise you if

they are suitable

The main reason for this advice is that there is a large amount of material related to these thinkers

(especially on the internet) and much of it is polemical and used for ideological purposes in various debates

It can be hard to evaluate the scholarly status of material related to this course and so to avoid

inadvertently using questionable or contentious sources we recommend you stick closely to the

recommended readings in this course guide

In short

Read lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the tutorials

Read lsquoEssential Wider Thinker Readings for Essays and Examsrsquo in addition to lsquoEssential

Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the essays and exams

Read widely from Recommended and Further readings including the lsquoDisputesrsquo readings

in preparation for Essays and Exams

Essays and exams that are based only on the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo will do badly as

they demonstrate limited engagement with the substantive material on the course

9 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Structure

LECTURES

The course is taught in Weeks 1-5 and 6-11 of Semester 2 (please see the Course Schedule above for

detailed information on dates)

It has two lectures a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 1510-1600 held in the George Square

Lecture Theatre

Lectures commence in Week 1 (week beginning Monday 15th January 2018)

Each week there will also be an additional and optional session held on Tuesdays at 1510-1600 in

George Square Lecture Theatre These are called lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions and focus on writing essays

and exams They will include activities and feedback on essential skills to do well in the course See

further information on Bootcamp below

Please note that there will be no lectures or tutorials during the Festival of Creative Learning

(Semester Week 6 19th ndash 23rd February)

The lectures will introduce you to the main ideas of the theorists who are discussed each week setting their

work in the appropriate context explaining key claims and concepts and showing how they contribute to the

broad theoretical question being addressed You will get a great deal more out of the lectures if you have

already read the key readings even if only in a preliminary way

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are the primary forum for discussion deliberation and debate on the thinkers and themes of the

course The tutorials start in Week 2 until run until Week 11

Tutorials are an integral part of the course Your participation in tutorials is essential and if you fail to

attend on more than two consecutive occasions without reasonable explanation your Personal Tutor will be

informed

Please see the Course Schedule above for information on the tutorial topics and schedule

Bootcamp

The Bootcamp sessions are held every Tuesday 310pm-4pm George Square Lecture Theatre They are

designed to provide detailed and practical help on writing essays and exams for this course

These sessions are optional but highly recommended We study closely the assessment criteria for the

essays and exams and how to fulfil these successful in practice with concrete examples and exercises Each

session will have feedback and advice on the exercises completed Further information will be available on

the Learn site for the course

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

8 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

these for the essays and exams To help students understand which text to read in preparation for essays and

exams we have identified these as lsquoEssential Wider Thinker (eg Hobbes) Readings for Essays and

Examsrsquo

Students should also read items listed in the Recommended Readings and Further Readings in

preparation for Essays and Exams Students should prioritise readings in the Recommended Readings and

read as widely as they are able

We have also identified some important lsquoRecommended Readingsrsquo that provide particularly interesting

debates about the thinkers we are discussing We have highlighted these as lsquoDisputesrsquo It will be helpful for

students to read these carefully and engage with them in essays and exams as they are an excellent starting

point for critical evaluation of our thinkers They will also feature prominently in the lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions as

we learn how to write good essays and exam answers on this course (see further information below on

lsquoBootcamprsquo)

We have provided an extensive list of readings in the course guide and Resource List and we do not expect

students to identify readings from beyond the readings suggested here We strongly recommend that

you select appropriate materials from this reading list and study them carefully in order to prepare for your

essays and exams If you do identify readings from beyond this reading list and wish to include them in your

essaysexams we recommend that you check with your tutor in advance as they will be able to advise you if

they are suitable

The main reason for this advice is that there is a large amount of material related to these thinkers

(especially on the internet) and much of it is polemical and used for ideological purposes in various debates

It can be hard to evaluate the scholarly status of material related to this course and so to avoid

inadvertently using questionable or contentious sources we recommend you stick closely to the

recommended readings in this course guide

In short

Read lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the tutorials

Read lsquoEssential Wider Thinker Readings for Essays and Examsrsquo in addition to lsquoEssential

Tutorial Readingsrsquo for the essays and exams

Read widely from Recommended and Further readings including the lsquoDisputesrsquo readings

in preparation for Essays and Exams

Essays and exams that are based only on the lsquoEssential Tutorial Readingsrsquo will do badly as

they demonstrate limited engagement with the substantive material on the course

9 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Structure

LECTURES

The course is taught in Weeks 1-5 and 6-11 of Semester 2 (please see the Course Schedule above for

detailed information on dates)

It has two lectures a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 1510-1600 held in the George Square

Lecture Theatre

Lectures commence in Week 1 (week beginning Monday 15th January 2018)

Each week there will also be an additional and optional session held on Tuesdays at 1510-1600 in

George Square Lecture Theatre These are called lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions and focus on writing essays

and exams They will include activities and feedback on essential skills to do well in the course See

further information on Bootcamp below

Please note that there will be no lectures or tutorials during the Festival of Creative Learning

(Semester Week 6 19th ndash 23rd February)

The lectures will introduce you to the main ideas of the theorists who are discussed each week setting their

work in the appropriate context explaining key claims and concepts and showing how they contribute to the

broad theoretical question being addressed You will get a great deal more out of the lectures if you have

already read the key readings even if only in a preliminary way

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are the primary forum for discussion deliberation and debate on the thinkers and themes of the

course The tutorials start in Week 2 until run until Week 11

Tutorials are an integral part of the course Your participation in tutorials is essential and if you fail to

attend on more than two consecutive occasions without reasonable explanation your Personal Tutor will be

informed

Please see the Course Schedule above for information on the tutorial topics and schedule

Bootcamp

The Bootcamp sessions are held every Tuesday 310pm-4pm George Square Lecture Theatre They are

designed to provide detailed and practical help on writing essays and exams for this course

These sessions are optional but highly recommended We study closely the assessment criteria for the

essays and exams and how to fulfil these successful in practice with concrete examples and exercises Each

session will have feedback and advice on the exercises completed Further information will be available on

the Learn site for the course

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

9 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Structure

LECTURES

The course is taught in Weeks 1-5 and 6-11 of Semester 2 (please see the Course Schedule above for

detailed information on dates)

It has two lectures a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 1510-1600 held in the George Square

Lecture Theatre

Lectures commence in Week 1 (week beginning Monday 15th January 2018)

Each week there will also be an additional and optional session held on Tuesdays at 1510-1600 in

George Square Lecture Theatre These are called lsquoBootcamprsquo sessions and focus on writing essays

and exams They will include activities and feedback on essential skills to do well in the course See

further information on Bootcamp below

Please note that there will be no lectures or tutorials during the Festival of Creative Learning

(Semester Week 6 19th ndash 23rd February)

The lectures will introduce you to the main ideas of the theorists who are discussed each week setting their

work in the appropriate context explaining key claims and concepts and showing how they contribute to the

broad theoretical question being addressed You will get a great deal more out of the lectures if you have

already read the key readings even if only in a preliminary way

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are the primary forum for discussion deliberation and debate on the thinkers and themes of the

course The tutorials start in Week 2 until run until Week 11

Tutorials are an integral part of the course Your participation in tutorials is essential and if you fail to

attend on more than two consecutive occasions without reasonable explanation your Personal Tutor will be

informed

Please see the Course Schedule above for information on the tutorial topics and schedule

Bootcamp

The Bootcamp sessions are held every Tuesday 310pm-4pm George Square Lecture Theatre They are

designed to provide detailed and practical help on writing essays and exams for this course

These sessions are optional but highly recommended We study closely the assessment criteria for the

essays and exams and how to fulfil these successful in practice with concrete examples and exercises Each

session will have feedback and advice on the exercises completed Further information will be available on

the Learn site for the course

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

10 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Course Assessment

Assessment Dates Weighting

Essay (2000

words)

The essay questions will relate to the first five theorists covered in the course

Hobbes

Locke

Marx

Mill

de Beauvoir

Essay questions will be made available on the Learn site at the start of the

course

All essays must be submitted through ELMA by 12 noon on Monday 26th

February 2018

50

Exam There will be six sections on the exam (Sections A-F) Each section will

contain two questions

Students are required to answer two questions in total in the exam no more

than one question from any section Each question is worth 50 of the final

exam mark

Sections A-E will contain two questions each

Section A Qutb Zaynab al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquorawi

Section B Arendt

Section C FanonDu Bois

Section D NehruGandhi

Section E Rawls

Section F will contain two questions which invite students to compare

at least two thinkers from any part of the course in relation to selected

Course Themes (please see p 6 in this course guide for more

information on the Course Themes)

Please note that students may compare thinkers from any part of

the course in response to questions in Section F not only thinkers

QutbZaynab al GhazaliHuda Sharsquorawi - Rawls

Students should ensure there is no overlap in the content of their

exam answers In other words students must ensure that they do

not reuserepeat material in two different exam answers

50

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

11 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Assessment Criteria

The following are the main criteria on which the essay and exams will be marked

A Does the essayexam demonstrate accurate comprehension of the political thinkers discussed including

clear and accurate use of terminology and sound understanding of relevant concepts

B Does the essayexam demonstrate that the student is able to express their understanding and critical

evaluation of the thinkers and the secondary arguments clearly and accurately in their own words

C Does the essayexam answer the questions clearly presenting and defending a clear point of view in the

form of a well-structured argument

D Does the essayexam demonstrate critical engagement with the primary and secondary sources including

evaluation of relevant arguments and interpretation by secondary authors

E Does the essayexam demonstrate wide reading from the course reading list

F Is the essayexam well presented with accurate referencing clear demonstration of appropriate standards

of good academic practice regarding plagiarism and use of material by others

G Is the essayexam written in a clear and appropriate academic style including accurate spelling grammar

and legibility

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

12 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Reading List

Week 1 15th amp 18th January

Hobbes

Dr Elizabeth Cripps amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Essential Wider Hobbes Readings for Essays and Exams

Hobbes Thomas Leviathan chps 13-31 available online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The

English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Hobbes Thomas On the Citizen [De Cive] lsquoPreface to the Readersrsquo and Chapters 1-14 inclusive available

online in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Baumgold Deborah lsquoHobbesrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Forsyth Murray lsquoHobbesrsquos Contractarianism a comparative analysisrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly

eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoThomas Hobbesrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2

Oxford University Press 1992

Newey Glen The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (London Routledge 2007)

Ryan Alan lsquoHobbesrsquo Political Philosophyrsquo in Tom Sorrell ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

(Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996) pp 208-245

Runciman David lsquoWhat Kind of Person is Hobbesrsquos State A Reply to Skinnerrsquo Journal of Political

Philosophy 8 2000 pp 268-278

Skinnner Quentin lsquoHobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the Statersquo Journal of Political Philosophy

71 1999 pp 1-29 13

Essential Tutorial Readings

Hobbes Thomas lsquoLeviathan (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Schulman A 2014 Hobbes Thomas (1588ndash1679) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

13 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Dyzenhaus David lsquoHobbes and the Legitimacy of Lawrsquo Law and Philosophy 20 2001 pp 461-498

Hampton Jean Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Raphael David Hobbes Morals and Politics (London Routledge 2004)

Sreedhar Susanne Hobbes on Resistance Defying the Leviathan (University Press 2010)

Sorrell Tom ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996)

Sommerville Johann Thomas Hobbes Political Ideas in Historical Context (Basingstoke Palgrave 1992)

Springborg Patricia ed The Cambridge Companion to Hobbesrsquo Leviathian (Cambridge University Press

2007)

Tuck Richard Hobbes A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2002)

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Hobbes mean by saying that the lsquostate of naturersquo is that of lsquowar of all against allrsquo

2 What is his theory of natural rights

3 What is Hobbesrsquos account of the social contract Under what circumstances if any is it

dissoluble

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

14 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 2 22nd and 25th January

Locke

Dr Philip Cook amp Dr Mihaela Mihai

Wider Locke Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Locke John Two Treatises on Government Second Treatise chapters 2 3 5 8 9 18 and 19 available online

in the library catalogue Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John

Locke (InteLex CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bejan T M Locke On Toleration (In)Civility and The Quest For Concord History of Political Thought

2016 Vol37(3)

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Lockersquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Kelly Paul Lockes Second Treatise of Government A Readers Guide (London Bloomsbury Publishing

2007)

Klosko George lsquoJohn Locke and Liberal Political Theoryrsquo In A History of Political Theory An

Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Thompson Martyn P lsquoLockersquos Contract in Contextrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Macpherson C B The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (OUP 2011) Part Five Chapter 2

lsquoThe Theory of Property Rightrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Locke social contract versus political anthropologyrsquo in David Boucher and Paul

Kelly eds The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations of John Lockersquos Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002) chapter 6 lsquoDisproportionate and Unequal Possessionrsquo

Waldron Jeremy lsquoJohn Lockersquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Locke John lsquoSecond Treatise on Government (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Locke John lsquoA Letter Concerning Toleration (first letter)rsquo available online in the library catalogue

Intelex Past Masters The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke (InteLex

CorpCharlottesville Virginia USA 2000)

Zuckert M 2014 Locke John (1632ndash1704) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

15 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Stanton Timothy Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration Political Studies 2006 Vol54 (1)

pp84-102

Further Readings

Dunn John Locke (Oxford University Press 1984)

Simmons A John lsquoJohn Lockersquos Two Treatises of Governmentrsquo in Peter R Anstey ed The Oxford

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press 2013)

Simmons A John On the Edge of Anarchy Locke consent and the limits of society (Princeton NJ

Princeton University Press 1993)

Franklin Julian H John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty Mixed Monarchy and the Righto

of Resistance in the Political Thought of The English Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1978)

Grady Robert C Obligation Consent and Lockes Right to Revolution ldquoWho Is to Judgerdquo Canadian

Journal of Political Science 1976 Vol9 (2) pp277-292

Waldron Jeremy God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Lockes Political Thought

(Cambridge University Press 2002)

Marshall John John Locke Resistance Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 1994)

Cranston Maurice lsquoJohn Locke and the Case for Toleration in Susan Mendus and David Edwards eds On

Toleration (Oxford Clarendon Press 1987)

Conti Gregory Lockean toleration and the victims perspective European Journal of Political Theory

2015 Vol1 4(1) pp76-97

Vernon Richard Lockean Toleration Dialogical not Theological Political Studies 2013 Vol61 (1) pp

215-230

Tutorial Questions

1 How is Lockersquos theory of the social contract different from Hobbesrsquos

2 What argument does Locke provide for the right to private property and how successful is this

argument

3 Under what circumstances is rebellion against the government permissible How does this

differ from Hobbesrsquos account

4 What are Lockersquos arguments for toleration

5 What are the limits of toleration for Locke

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

16 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 3 29th January amp 1st February

Marx

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Marx Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Marx Karl lsquoOn the Jewish Questionrsquo lsquoTheses on Feuerbachrsquo lsquoEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts

(Selections) lsquoThe Communist Manifestorsquo lsquoCapital Volume One (Selections)rsquo in Karl Marx Selected

Writings edited by Lawrence H Simon Cambridge Hackett Publishing 1994

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Avineri Shlomo The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social amp Political Thought of Karl

Marx Cambridge University Press 1968

Carver Terrell lsquoMarxrsquo In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys pages

539-543 Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications Ltd 2017

Geras Norman lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Gilbert Alan lsquoPolitical Philosophyrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 168ndash

95 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought 483ndash563 Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoKarl Marxrsquo In A History of Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed 2498ndash558 Oxford

University Press 1992

Sayers Sean lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Singer Peter Marx Oxford Oxford  Oxford University Press 1980

Stedman-Jones Gareth lsquoThe Young Hegelians Marx and Engelsrsquo In The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-

Century Political Thought edited by Gregory Claeys and Gareth Stedman-Jones 556ndash600 Oxford

University Press 2011

Thomas Paul lsquoMarx and Engelsrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed (Oxford

University Press 2017)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Marx Karl lsquoldquoA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyrdquo ldquoEstranged Labourrdquo ldquoThe

Communist Manifestordquo ldquoAfter the Revolutionrdquo ldquoCapitalrdquorsquo In Princeton Readings in Political

Thought edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Browning Gary lsquoMarxrsquo In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T Gibbons

(Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

17 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Wilde Lawrence lsquoThe Early Marxrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds Political Thinker 3rd ed

(Oxford University Press 2017)

Wilde Lawrence lsquoMarx Against the Social Contractrsquo in David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds The Social

Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London Routledge 1994) pp 35-50

Wolff Jonathan Why Read Marx Today Oxford University Press 2003

Further Readings

Miller David lsquoMarx Communism and Marketsrsquo Political Theory 15 no 2 (1987) 182ndash204

Duncan Graeme Campbell Marx and Mill Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony Cambridge

University Press 1973

Fraser Nancy lsquoAlienation in the Older Marxrsquo Contemporary Political Theory 5 no 3 (2006) 319ndash339

Geras Norman lsquoBringing Marx to Justice An Addendum and Rejoinderrsquo New Left Review I no 195

(1992) 37ndash69

mdashmdashmdash lsquoThe Controversy About Marx and Justicersquo New Left Review I no 150 (1985) 47ndash85

Himmelweit Susan lsquoReproduction and the Materialist Conception of Historyrsquo In The Cambridge

Companion to Marx edited by Terrell Carver 196ndash221 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge

Cambridge University Press 1991

Holloway John lsquoA Note on Alienationrsquo Historical Materialism 1 no 1 (1997) 146ndash149

Le Baron Bentley lsquoMarx on Human Emancipationrsquo Canadian Journal of Political Science 4 no 4 (1971)

559ndash70

McCarney Joseph lsquoMarx and Justice Againrsquo New Left Review I no 195 (1992) 29ndash36

Miller Richard W lsquoSocial and Political Theoryrsquo In The Cambridge Companion to Marx edited by Terrell

Carver 55ndash105 Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991

Sayers Sean lsquoAlienation as a Critical Conceptrsquo International Critical Thought 1 no 3 (2011) 287ndash304

mdashmdashmdash Marxism and Human Nature London Routledge 2013

mdashmdashmdash lsquoMoral Values and Progressrsquo New Left Review I no 204 (1994) 67ndash85

Tutorial Questions

1 What does Marx mean by lsquoalienationrsquo

2 What are the causes and consequences of lsquoalienationrsquo according to Marx

3 Does Marx argue against capitalism from the point of view of justice

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

18 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 4 5th amp 8th February

Mill DrElizabeth Cripps amp Dr Kieran Oberman

Wider Mill Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

JS Mill On Liberty introduction and chapter 4 Available at Project Gutenberg

httpwwwgutenbergorgfiles3490134901-h34901-hhtm

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Feinburg Joel The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Vol 2 Offense to Others (New York Oxford

University Press 1985) chapter 9

W Doyle Michael ldquoA Few Words on Mill Walzer and Non-Interventionrdquo Ethics amp International Affairs

234 (2009) 349ndash369

Applebaum Arthur ldquoForcing a People to be Freerdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 254 (2007) 359-400

Hampsher-Monk Iain lsquoJohn Stuart Millrsquo In A History of Modern Political Thought Oxford Blackwell

Publishing 1992

Klosko George lsquoUtilitarian Liberalism Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Millrsquo In A History of

Political Theory An Introduction 2nd ed Vol 2 Oxford University Press 1992

Further Readings

Brink David ldquoMills Moral and Political Philosophyrdquo The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014

Edition) Edward N Zalta (ed)

Wolff Jonathan An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford Oxford University Press 1996) chapter

4

Rees JC ldquoA Re-Reading of Mill on Libertyrdquo in John Gray and G W Smith eds J S Mill On Liberty in

Focus (London Routeledge 2003)

Dworkin Gerald ldquoPaternalismrdquo in Richard A Wasserstrom (ed) Morality and the Law (Belmont

Wadsworth 1971)

Essential Tutorial Readings

Mill J S lsquoOn Liberty (excerpts)rsquo In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by Mitchell

Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

JS Mill ldquoA Few Words on Non-Interventionrdquo in New England Review 273 ([1859] 2006) 252-264

Ryan A 2014 Mill John Stuart (1806ndash73) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

19 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Skorupski John Why Read Mill Today (London Routledge 2006)

Riley Jonathan Mill On Liberty (London Routledge 1998)

Ten CL Mill on Liberty (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980)

Brink David O ldquoMillian Principles Freedom Of Expression and Hate Speechrdquo Legal Theory 7 (2001)

119-157

Wollheim Richard ldquoJohn Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Actionrdquo Social Research 40 (1973) 1-30

Riley Jonathan ldquoOne Very Simple Principlersquo Utilitas 3 (1991) 1-35

Walzer Michael Just and Unjust Wars (New York Basic Books 2006) pp51-63 pp 86-108

Luban David ldquoJust War and Human Rightsrdquo Philosophy and Public Affairs 92 (1980) 160-181

Chiu Yvonne and Robert S Taylor ldquoThe Self-Extinguishing Despot Millian Democratizationrdquo The

Journal of Politics 73 (2011) 1239-1250

Metah Uday Singh Liberalism and Empire A Study of Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought

(Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999) pp 97-106

Tutorial Questions

1)How does Mill distinguish between other regarding and self-regarding behaviour

2) Why does Mill believe this distinction is so important

3)Why is Mill in favour of international intervention in some cases and against it in other cases

20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

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If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

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37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

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upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

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(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

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20 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 5 12th amp 15th February

de Beauvoir

Dr Masa Mrovlje

Wider De Beauvoir Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoWhat Is Existentialismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and Chicago University

of Illinois Press 2004) 319ndash26

de Beauvoir Simone ldquoMoral Idealism and Political Realismrdquo in Philosophical Writings (Urbana and

Chicago University of Illinois Press 2004) 175ndash93

de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York Kensington Publishing Corp 1948)

J Brison Susan ldquoBeauvoir and Feminism Interview and Reflectionsrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to

Simone de Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 189ndash207

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir Teaching Sartre about Freedomrdquo in Margaret A Simons ed Feminist

Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press

1995) 79ndash95

Hutchings Kimberly ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguous Ethics of Political Violencerdquo Hypatia 22

no 3 (July 19 2007) 111ndash32

Mahon Joseph 1997 Existentialism Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke Plagrave 1997)

Tidd Ursula Simone de Beauvoir (London and New York Routledge 2004)

Further Readings

Kruks Sonia Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford and New York Oxford University

Press 2012)

Marso Lori J ldquoThinking Politically with Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sexrdquo Theory amp Event 15 no

2 (June 7 2012)

Kruks Sonia ldquoSimone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilegerdquo Hypatia 20 no 1 (February 3 2005)

178ndash205

Holveck Eleanore ldquoCan a Woman Be a Philosopher Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaidrdquo in

Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (University Park Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State

University Press 1995) 67ndash78

Essential Tutorial Readings

De Beauvoir Simone lsquoThe Second Sex (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Kruks S 2014 Beauvoir Simone de (1908ndash86) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael

T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

21 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Langer Monika ldquoBeauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguityrdquo in The Cambridge Companion to Simone de

Beauvoir ed Claudia Card (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003) 87ndash106

Tutorial Questions

1) What does Beauvoir mean by ambiguity

2) What is her vision of a politically engaged intellectual

3) What does she mean when she says one is not born but rather becomes a woman

Please Note

19th ndash 23rd February is Festival of Creative Learning Week

There will be no Lectures or Tutorials

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

22 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 6 26th February amp 8th March

Qutb Zaynab Al Ghazali amp Huda Sharsquorawi

Dr Ewan Stein amp Dr Lucy Abbott

Wider Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Qutb Sayyid Milestones trans Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui (Indianapolis American Trust

Publications 1990)

Qutb Sayyid lsquoIn the Shade of the Qurrsquoanrsquo in Euben R amp Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist

thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton

Princeton University Press 2009) pp 143-154

Sharsquorawi Huda Harem Years The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 trans Margot Badran

(London Virago 1986)

Recommended readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with a )

Badran Margot ldquoUnderstanding Islam Islamism and Islamic Feminismrdquo Journal of Womenrsquos History 2001

Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Badran Margot ldquoBetween Secular and Islamic Feminisms Reflections on the Middle East and Beyondrdquo

Journal of Middle East Womenrsquos Studies 2005 11 (Jan)

Calvert John Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (Chichester Columbia University Press

2010)

Cole Juan Ricardo ldquoFeminism Class and Islam in Turn-of-the-Century Egyptrdquo International Journal of

Middle East Studies 1981 13 (4) 394-407

Euben RL Enemy in the Mirror Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism A Work

of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton NJ  Chichester Princeton University Press 1999)

Goldberg Ellis ldquoSmashing Idols and the State The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalismrdquo

Comparative Studies in Society and History 1991 33 (01) 3ndash35

Halverson Jeffry R amp Amy K Way (2011) ldquoIslamist Feminism Constructing Gender Identities in

Postcolonial Societiesrdquo Politics and Religion 4 503-525

Essential Tutorial Readings

Qutb Sayyid ldquoMilestonesrdquo in The Sayyid Qutb Reader selected writings on politics religion and

society ed Albert J Bergesen (Abingdon Routledge 2008) pp 35-42

Shepard W 2014 Qutb Sayyid (1906ndash66) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Al-Ghazali Zainab ldquoAn Islamist Activistrsquo and ldquoFrom Days of my Life chapter 2rdquo in Euben R amp

Zaman M Princeton readings in Islamist thought Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin

Laden (Princeton studies in Muslim politics) (Princeton Princeton University Press 2009) Chapter 11

pp 275-301

Chaudhry Ayesha lsquoWomenrsquo in Islamic Political Thought and introduction ed Gerhard Bowering

(Princeton Princeton University Press 2015) pp 263-272

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

23 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Kassab Elizabeth Susan Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

(Columbia University Press 2010) C4 pp 165-169 ldquoFeminist Historicization of Religious Traditions Nazira

Zain al-Din Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmedrdquo

Musallam Adnan From Secularism to Jihad Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

(Wesport Conn London Praeger 2005)

Moghadam Valentine ldquoIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents Toward a Resolution of the Debaterdquo Signs

2002 vol 27 no 4 pp 1135-1171

Quawas Rula B ldquoA Sea-Captain in Her Own Rightrdquo Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Sharsquoarawirdquo

Journal of International Womenrsquos Studies 2006 Vol81 pp219-235

Toth James Sayyid Qutb The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press

2013)

Winter Bronwyn ldquoFundamental Misunderstandings Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamismrdquo Journal

of Womenrsquos History 2001 Vol 13 No1 Spring pp47-52

Further readings

Ahmed Leila Women and Gender in Islam Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven Yale

University Press 1992)

Ahmed Leila ldquoFeminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East A Preliminary Explorationrdquo 1982

Womenrsquos Stud Int Forum 5 2 153-168

Jansen Johannes J G and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj The Neglected Duty The Creed of Sadatrsquos

Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East (New York Macmillan 1986)

Kepel Gilles The Prophet and Pharaoh Muslim Extremism in Contemporary Egypt (London Al Saqi

Books 1985)

Le Renard Ameacutelie ldquoOnly for Womenrdquo Women the State and Reform in Saudi Arabiardquo The Middle East

Journal 2008 Volume 62 No 4 Autumn

Mahmood Saba Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton Princeton

University Press 2005) Chapter 1 ldquoThe Subject of Freedomrdquo

Scott Joan The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press 2007) ch 3 ldquoSecularismrdquo and ch 4

ldquoIndividualismrdquo

Zollner Barbara The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Hudaybi and Ideology 1st ed (New York Routledge

2008)

Tutorial Questions

What does the term fundamentalism mean as applied to Sayyid Qutbs thought

What did Qutb mean by jihad jahiliyya and hakimiyya

What explains the resonance Qutbs ideas have had in Egypt and beyond since the 1960s

What are Zaynab Al Ghazali and Huda Sharsquoarawirsquos visions of political activism

How did growing anti-colonial sentiment in Egypt come to shape their respective worldviews

According to these feminists is the veil a sign of oppression emancipation both or neither

Is it possible to be both religious and feminist

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

24 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 7 5th amp 8th March

Arendt

Dr Masa Mrovlje and Dr Andrew Hom

Wider Arendt readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism Chapter 9 (The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of

the Rights of Man) Chapter 13 (Ideology and Terror a Novel Form of Government) Preface to the First

Edition and Concluding Remarks

Arendt Hannah The Human Condition Chapter 5 Action pp 175ndash247

Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil Chapter VIII Duties of a Law

Abiding Citizen Epilogue and Postscript

Arendt Hannah lsquoWhat is Freedomrsquo in Between Past and Future Eight Exercises in Political Thought

(New York Penguin Books 1993) pp 143-171

Arendt Hannah lsquoCivil Disobediencersquo in Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (London Harcourt

Publishers Ltd 1972) pp 51ndash102

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Benhabib Seyla lsquoArendts Eichmann in Jerusalemrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to

Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press 2000) 65ndash85

Benhabib Seyla The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (London Sage 1996) chapter 5

Buckler Steve Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Challenging the tradition (Edinburgh Edinburgh

University Press 2011)

Frazer Elizabeth and Kimberly Hutchings lsquoOn Politics and Violence Arendt contra Fanonrsquo Contemporary

Political Theory 2008 7(1) 90ndash108

Hayden Patrick Political Evil in a Global Age Hannah Arendt and International Theory (London and

New York Routledge 2009) chapter 4 (Effacing the political The evil of neoliberal globalization)

Hayden Patrick Introduction and lsquoArendt and the Political Power of Judgementrsquo in Patrick Hayden (ed)

Hannah Arendt Key concepts (London and New York Routledge 2014) pp 1ndash19 167ndash84

Essential Tutorial Readings

Arendt Hannah lsquoThe Origins of Totalitarianism (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought

edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Markell P 2014 Arendt Hannah (1906ndash75) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

25 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Owens Patricia Between war and politics international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

(Oxford University Press 2007) Introduction chapter 1 and chapter 7

Isaac Jeffrey C Arendt Camus and Modern Rebellion (New Haven and London Yale University Press

1992)

Isaac Jeffrey C lsquoA New Guarantee on Earth Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human

Rightsrsquo American Political Science Review (1996) 901 61ndash73

Kateb George lsquoPolitical Action its nature and advantagesrsquo in Dana Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion

to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000) 130ndash148

Klusmeyer Douglas Beyond Tragedy Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau on Responsibility Evil and

Political Ethicsrsquo International Studies Review 2009 11(2) 332-51

Kohn Jerome Freedom The Priority of the Political In The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed

Dana Villa 113ndash29 (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Further Readings

Blaumlttler Sidonia and Irene M Marti (2005) Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt Against the Destruction

of Political Spheres of Freedom Hypatia 20(2) 88ndash101

Disch Lisa J More Truth Than Fact Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah

Arendt Political Theory 1993 Vol 21 No 4 pp 665-694

Hinchman Sandra Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt Polity 1984

17(2) 317 ndash 339

Hill Melvyn A lsquoThe Fictions of Mankind and the Stories of Manrsquo in Melvyn A Hill (ed) Hannah Arendt

The recovery of the public world (New York St Martinrsquos Press 1979) pp 275ndash300

Honig Bonnie Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995)

Klusmeyer Douglas lsquoHannah Arendtrsquos Critical Realism Power Justice and Responsibilityrsquo in Hannah Ar

endt and International Relations Readings Across the Lines edited by Anthony F Lang Jr and John

Williams (Palgrave 2005) pp 113-178

Menke Christoph lsquoThe ldquoAporias of Human Rightsrdquo and the ldquoOne Human Rightrdquo Regarding the Coherence

of Hannah Arendtrsquos Argumentrsquo Social Research 2007 743 739ndash762

Young-Bruehl Elizabeth Why Arendt Matters (New Haven Yale University Press 2006)

Tutorial Questions

1) What does it mean to be a citizen for Arendt

2) What for Arendt is the substance of political action

3) What is Arendts challenge to the tradition of political thought

4) What does Arendt mean by the notion banality of evil and what is its contemporary

relevance

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

26 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 8 12th amp 19th March

Fanon and Du Bois

Dr Mihaela Mihai amp Prof Nasar Meer

Wider Fanon and Du Bois Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk (Boulder Paradigm Publishers 2008 [1903]) (Also available via

Project Gutenberg)

Du Bois W E B lsquoDoes the Negro Need Separate Schoolsrsquo in J Lester (Ed) The Seventh Son The

Thought and Writings of Web Du Bois (New York Random House 1971)

Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth trans Constance Farrington (London Penguin 2001) chapter ldquoOn

National Culturerdquo pp 206-248

Franz Fanon Black Skins White Masks (London Pluto Press 2008) Foreword by Homi Bhabha pp 22-38

and chapter 1 lsquoThe Negro and Languagersquo pp 47-66

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated by an )

Meer N lsquoRecognitionrsquo in Race and Ethnicity Key Concepts(London Sage 2014) pp 130-135

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Posnock R How it feels to be a problem DuBois Fanon and the impossible life of the black

intellectual Critical Inquiry 1997 Win Vol23 (2) pp 323-349

Shafer A R lsquoW E B Du Bois German Social Thought and the Racial Divide in American Progressivismrsquo

The Journal of American History 2001 88 (3) 925-949

Sithole Tendayi The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon Journal of Black Studies 2016 Vol47 (1)

pp 24-40

Essential Tutorial Readings

Fanon Franz lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth (excerpts) In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited

by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Du Bois W amp Provenzo E The Illustrated Souls of Black folk (An annotated illustrated

documentary ed) (Boulder Colo London Paradigm 2005) Chapter 1 lsquoOf Our Spiritual Strivingsrsquo

pp 11-28

Cocks J 2014 Fanon Frantz (1925ndash61) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Davari A 2014 Du Bois William Edward Burghardt (1868ndash1963) The Encyclopedia of Political

Thought 963ndash966

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

27 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Alessandrini Anthony C Frantz Fanon critical perspectives (New York Routledge 1999)

Back L and Tate M lsquoFor a Sociological Reconstruction WEB Du Bois Stuart Hall and Segregated

Sociologyrsquo Sociological Research Online 2015 20 (3)

Bell B E Grosholz and J B Stewart (Eds) WEB Du Bois on Race amp Culture (Oxford Routledge

1996)

Bell Vikki Introduction Fanonrsquos lsquoThe Wretched of the Earth 50 Years Onrsquo Theory Culture amp Society

2010 Vol27 (7-8) pp7-14

Cornell Drucilla Fanon today in Douzinas Costas and Conor Gearty eds The Meanings of Rights The

Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2012) pp121-136

Du Bois W E B The Conservation of Race Reproduced in Lewis D (1995) WEB Du Bois A Reader

New York Henry Holt

Du Bois W E B Dark Princess A Romance (Millwood NY Kraus-Thompson 1974 [1928])

Du Bois W E B The Autobiography of W E B Du Bois A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last

Decade of Its First Century (New York International Publishers Co 1968)

Du Bois W E B Black Folk Then And Now (New York Holt 1939)

Gooding-Williams R lsquoPhilosophy Of History And Social Critique In The Souls of Black Folkrsquo Social

Science Information 1987 26 (1) pp 99-114

Gordon Lewis R What Fanon said a philosophical introduction to his life and thought (New York NY

Fordham University Press 2015)

Lewis D L W E B Du Bois Biography of Race 1868 ndash 1919 (New York Henry Holt 1993)

Lukacs G History and Class Consciousness (Merlin London 1971)

Mostern K lsquoThree Theories of the Race of W E B Du Boisrsquo Cultural Critique 1996 34 pp 27-63

Nayar Pramod K Frantz Fanon (London New York Routledge 2013)

Omi M and H Winant) Racial Formation in the United States (New York Routledge and Keegan Paul

1987)

Rampersad A The Art and Imagination of WE B Du Bois (New York Schocken 1976)

Reed A L Jr WEB Du Bois and American Political Thought (New York Oxford University Press

1997)

Tutorial Questions

1) What is Fanonrsquos view of the harm of colonialism

2) How does Fanon understand the relationship between lsquothe settlerrsquo and lsquothe nativersquo

3) What did W E B Du Bois mean by lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo

4) To what extent might lsquodouble consciousnessrsquo remain a feature of racial identities today

5) Has the US lived up to Du Boisrsquo ambition as a country of lsquoEnduring-Hyphenationrsquo

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

28 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 9 19th March amp 22nd March

Nehru and Gandhi Dr Harshan Kumarashingham amp Dr Philip Cook

Wider Nehru amp Gandhi Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoGandhindashNehru dialoguersquo lsquoEconomic development and moral development Gandhi on

machinery (1919ndash47)rsquo lsquoConstructive programme Its meaning and place (1941 rev 1945)rsquo In A Parel

(Ed) Gandhi Hind Swaraj and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) (Cambridge

University Press 2009) pp 169-180

Gandhi Mohandas K The Penguin Gandhi Reader ed Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2 edition (New Delhi New

York Penguin Books 1995) section The Creed of NonndashViolence pp 93ndash122

Nehru J The Discovery of India (London Penguin 2004)

Nehru J An Autobiography (Oxford University Press 1991)

Nehru J Glimpses of World History (London Lindsay Drummond Limited 1949)

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Bayly CA ldquoThe Ends of Liberalism and Political Thought in Nehrursquos Indiardquo Modern Intellectual History

Vol 12 No 3 2015 pp 605-626

Bondurant Joan Conquest of Violence (London Princeton University Press 1988) esp chs 2 amp 3

Brown Judith M and Anthony Parel eds The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge Cambridge

University Press 2011) chap 5ndash9

Copley Anthony Gandhi Against the Tide (Oxford University Press 1987)

Bilgrami Akeel Secularism Identity and Enchantement (London Harvard University Press 2014) esp

ch4 (Gandhi the philosopher) also available here

httpphilosophycolumbiaedufilesphilosophycontentBilgramiGandhipdf

Essential Tutorial Readings

Gandhi Mahatma lsquoHind Swaraj (excerpts) in The Essential Writings ed Judith M Brown New

edition (OUP 2008) pp 133-148

Dalton D 2014 Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand (1869ndash1948) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

ed Michael T Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

Nehru J ldquoA Tryst with Destiny [August 1947]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New

Delhi OUP 2007 pp 207-208

Nehru J ldquoBefore India is Reborn [1936]rdquo in Uma Iyengar (ed) The Oxford India Nehru New Delhi

OUP 2007 pp 28-37

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

29 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

______ lsquoGandhi (and Marx) Social Scientist 40 no 34 (2012) pp 3-25

Dalton Dennis Gandhi ideology and authority Modern Asian Studies 3 no 4 (1969) pp 377-393

Godrej Farah lsquoNonviolence and Gandhirsquos Truth A Method for Moral and Political Arbitrationrsquo The

Review of Politics 68 no 2 (2006) pp 287-317

Guha Ramachandra Makers of Modern India Delhi Penguin 2012 pp 326-370

Mantena Karuna ldquoAnother Realism The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolencerdquo American Political Science

Review 106 no 02 (May 2012) 455ndash70

Further Readings

Brown Judith M Nehru - A Political Life (New Haven Yale UP 2003)

Chakrabarty Bidyut The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi London Taylor and Francis

2006 Gandhi ndash The Mahatma at the Grassroots the practice of ahimsa or non-violence

Gandhi Leela Concerning Violence The Limits and Circulations of Gandhian Ahisma or Passive

Resistance Cultural Critique 35 no 0 (1996) 105-47

Khilnani Sunil The Idea of India (London Penguin 1997)

Mantena Karuna Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politicsrdquo Occasional Papers of the School of

Social Science Institute for Advanced Study 46 (2012)

httpskarunamantenafileswordpresscom201104mantena-gandhimeansendspdf

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhirsquos Political Philosophy A Critical Examination (Basingstoke  Macmillan 1989)

Parekh Bhikhu Gandhi A Very Short Introduction New Ed edition (Oxford  New York Oxford

Paperbacks 2001)

Rothermund Indira ldquoThe Individual and Society in Gandhirsquos Political Thoughtrdquo The Journal of Asian

Studies 28 no 2 (February 1 1969) 313ndash20

Skaria Ajay Unconditional Equality Gandhis Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis University of

Minnesota Press 2016)

Veeravalli Anuradha Gandhi in political theory truth law and experiment (Farnham Ashgate 2014)

Tutorial Questions

1) Why is non-violence so important to Gandhirsquos political thought

2) What are the principle elements of a free India for Gandhi (Hind Swaraj)

3) How does Nehru differ from Gandhi

4) How could Nehru be anti-colonial but not anti-British

5) What intellectual traditions did Nehru draw upon

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

30 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Week 10 26th amp 29th March

Rawls

Dr Philip Cook

Wider Rawls Readings Essential for Essays and Exams

John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York NY Columbia University Press 1993)

Especially Lectures 1 4-6

Recommended Readings (lsquoDebate Readingsrsquo indicated with )

Freeman Samuel Rawls (London Routledge 2007) esp ch 8 amp 9

Gheaus Anca lsquoGender Justicersquo Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6 (2012) 1ndash24

Kukathas Chandran and Philip Pettit Rawls A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Cambridge Polity Press

1990) ch 1 lsquoA New Departurersquo amp ch 2 lsquoA Contractarian Theoryrsquo

Kymlicka Will Contemporary Political Philosophy An Introduction (Oxford Oxford University Press

2002) ch 3 rsquoLiberal Equalityrsquo pp 53-101 and ch 9 lsquoFeminismrsquo pp 377-430

Matthew DC lsquoRawls and Racial Justicersquo Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2017 16(3) 235-258

Mills Charles W ldquoRetrieving Rawls for Racial Justice A Critique of Tommie Shelbyrdquo Critical

Philosophy of Race vol 1 no 1 2013 pp 1ndash27

Nussbaum Martha Frontiers of Justice (London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006) ch 1

lsquoSocial Contracts and Three Unresolved Problems of Justicersquo

Okin Susan Moller Justice Gender and the Family (New York Basic Books 1989) ch 5 lsquoJustice as

Fairness for whomrsquo pp 89-109

Pateman Carole The Sexual Contract (Cambridge Polity 1988) ch 3 lsquoContract the Individual and

Slaveryrsquo

Sabl Andrew lsquoLooking Forward to Justice Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non-Rawlsian Lessonsrsquo

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3) 2001 pp 307ndash330

Shelby Tommie lsquoRace and Social Justice Rawlsian Considerations Symposium - Rawls and the Law

Panel III Equal Citizenship Race and Ethnicityrsquo Fordham Law Review 72 (2003) 1697ndash1714

Essential Tutorial Readings

Rawls John lsquoTheory of Justice (excerpts)rsquo in In Princeton Readings in Political Thought edited by

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon Chichester Princeton University Press 2010

Rawls John lsquoJustice as Fairness political not metaphisicalrsquo in Arguing about Political Philosophy 2nd

ed ed Matt Zwolinski Abingdon Routledge 2014 pp 253-272

Klosko G 2014 Rawls John (1921ndash2002) The Encyclopedia of Political Thought ed Michael T

Gibbons (Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2015)

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

31 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Further Readings

Barry Brian John Rawls and the Search for Stability Ethics 105 no 4 (1995) 874-915

Casal Paula lsquoMarx Rawls Cohen and Feminismrsquo Hypatia 30 (2015) 811ndash28

Friedman Marilyn Autonomy Gender Politics (Oxford Oxford University Press 2003) ch 8 John Rawls

and the political coercion of unreasonable people

Graham Kevin M Beyond Redistribution White Supremacy and Racial Justice (Lexington Books 2012)

Haksar Vimit lsquoRawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobediencersquo in Inquiry 19 1976 pp 151ndash192

Hampton Jean Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics Ethics 99 1989) 791-814

Loury Glenn C The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Cambridge MA Harvard University Press 2003)

Maffetone Sebastiano Rawls An Introduction (Cambridge Polity 2010) ch 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 2

lsquoThe Theoryrsquo

Mandle John Rawlsrsquos lsquoTheory of Justice An Introduction (Cambridge Cambridge University Press

2009) lsquoIntroductionrsquo and ch 1 lsquoPart I of A Theory of Justice ndash Theoryrsquo

Mills Charles W lsquoRacial Liberalismrsquo in Black RightsWhite Wrongs The Critique of Racial Liberalism

(Oxford Oxford University Press 2017) pp 28ndash48

Pateman Carole and Charles Mills The Contract and Domination (Cambridge Polity 2007)

Shelby Tommie lsquoJustice Deviance and the Dark Ghettorsquo Philosophy amp Public Affairs 35 (2007) 126ndash60

Shiffrin Seana lsquoRace Labor and the Fair Equality of Opportunity Principlersquo Fordham Law Review 72

(2004) 1643ndash75

Wenar Leif Political Liberalism An Internal Critique Ethics 106 no 1 (1995) 32-62

Young I M (2004) Five Faces of Oppression In A E Cudd amp R Andreasen (Eds) Feminist Theory a

philosophical anthology Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

Tutorial Questions

1) Why does Rawls use the devices of the veil of ignorance and the original position in his

derivation and justification of the two principles of justice

2) Why does Rawls develop the distinctive approach of lsquoPolitical Liberalismrsquo in his later work Is

this development necessary and successful

3) How does Rawls understand civil disobedience

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

32 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Essay Referencing

The key to essay referencing is that you convey the relevant information about a source and do so in a

consistent fashion The point of referencing is that any reader of your work should be able to check every

single one of its references against the original source to see that for example the author you are citing

really did write what you claim she wrote or that where you have presented a fact then it has been

accurately presented and comes from an authoritative source So it is your responsibility as a scholar to

ensure that any potential reader of your essay could easily trace every single one of your claims One way

of doing this is to use the Harvard system outlined below If you do not wish to use this system you must

use another recognised system ndash not one you have made up - which conveys the same information The

library website contains guidance on referencing including a subscription to lsquoCite Them Rightrsquo an excellent

on-line referencing tool

Essentials of the Harvard system

1 After you have quoted from or referred to a particular text in your essay add in parentheses the authorrsquos

name the publication date and page numbers (if relevant) Place the full reference in your bibliography Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation

Quotation in essay

lsquoMarx and Freud are the two great heroes of the radicalized Enlightenmentrsquo (Callinicos 1989 172)

Book entry in bibliography

Callinicos A (1989) Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique Cambridge Polity Press

Note the sequence author year of publication title edition or translation information if needed place of

publication publisher

2 If you are employing someone elsersquos arguments ideas or categorization you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote One simple way to do so is as follows

Callinicos (1989 162-5) argues that postmodernism is more a symptom of lsquoGood Timesrsquo than of lsquoNew Timesrsquo

3 How to cite various sources

(ii) Chapters in book

In your essay cite the author eg (Jameson 1999) In your bibliography details should be arranged in this

sequence author of chapter year of publication chapter title editor(s) of book title of book place of

publication publisher article or chapter pages For example

Jameson F (1999) lsquoThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismrsquo in A Elliott (ed) The Blackwell Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory Oxford Blackwell pp 338-350

(iii) Journal article

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

33 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

In your essay cite the author eg (Gruffydd-Jones 2001) In your bibliography details should be arranged in

this sequence author of journal article year of publication article title journal title journal volume journal

issue or number article pages For example

Gruffydd-Jones B (2001) lsquoExplaining Global Poverty A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approachrsquo

Journal of Critical Realism 3(2) 2-10

(iv) Newspaper or magazine article

If the article has an author cite as normal in the text (Giddens 1998) In bibliography cite as follows

Giddens A (1998) lsquoBeyond left and rightrsquo The Observer 13 Sept pp 27-8

If the article has no author cite name of newspaper in text (The Herald) and list the source in the bibliography

by magazine or newspaper title For example

The Herald (1999) lsquoBrown takes on the joblessrsquo 6 Sept p 14

(v) Internet sites

If the site has an author cite in the text as normal eg (Weiss and Wesley 2001) In the bibliography provide

a full reference which should include author date title of website and URL address For example

Weiss S amp Wesley K (2001) lsquoPostmodernism and its Criticsrsquo Available at

httpwwwbriefberkeleyeduphilpostmodernhtml

If the site has no author cite the address of the site in your text eg for Centre for Europersquos Children

(httpEurochildglaacuk) In the bibliography provide a full reference including the title of the website

URL address publisher or owner of the site and if no date is available indicate the date you accessed the site

For example

lsquoFourteen Countries Meet in Manila to Tackle Childhood Traffickingrsquo (wwwasemorg) ASEM Resource

Centre Child Welfare Initiative 23 Oct 2001

Further information on how to use the Harvard Style is available at

httpwwwdocsisedacukdocsLibrariesPDFSEcitingreferencesHarvardpdf

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

34 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Administrative Guidance

Appendix 1 ndash General Information

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) you

should get in touch with the Student Disabilities Service as soon as possible You can find their details as

well as information on all of the support they can offer at httpwwwedacukstudent-disability-service

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities and is working to make all its courses as accessible

as possible If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made

to ensure access to lectures tutorials or exams or any other aspect of your studies you can discuss these with

your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures

Further guidance and information for Students with Disabilities can also be found in your Programme

Handbook

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques Resources and workshops cover a range of topics such as managing your own learning reading

note-making essay and report writing exam preparation and exam techniques

The study development resources are housed on lsquoLearnBetterrsquo (undergraduate) part of Learn the Universityrsquos

virtual learning environment Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol

wwwedacukiadundergraduates

Workshops are interactive they will give you the chance to take part in activities have discussions exchange

strategies share ideas and ask questions They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

130pm or 330pm The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above)

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance using the MyEd booking system

Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself If you book and then

cannot attend please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place (To be fair

to all students anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing

up for future events)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying working more effectively strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work Please note however that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work They also do not check or proof read students work

Students can book a study skills consultation httpwwwedacukinstitute-academic-

developmentpostgraduatetaughtstudystudy-on-campus

Academic English support can also be accessed at httpwwwedacukenglish-language-

teachingstudentscurrent-students

Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Enter Subject Area addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or in

some cases distressing You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may

feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor andor your Personal Tutor

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

35 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsstudent-counselling

Tutorial Allocation

Students on our semester 2 level 8 and level 7 courses (year 1 and 2 courses) will have been automatically

assigned to a tutorial group This allocation was done using Student Allocator software which will randomly

assigned you to a tutorial group based on your timetable It is important you attend the group on

your personalised timetable attending a different group will mean that you will not appear on the register

making your attendance difficult to track which could lead to further difficulties for you

Please check your timetable for semester 2 over the next few days so you know what your timetable will look

like after the Christmas vacation

Guidance on how to view your personal timetable can be found at httpwwwedacukstudent-

administrationtimetablingstudentstimetabling-systems

Requesting a group change

If you are unable to attend the tutorial group you have been assigned you can request a change via the lsquoGroup

Change Requestrsquo form

This form is available now and can be accessed up until the 22nd of December

The form will re-open from the 3rd of January to the 5th of February 2018 for anyone who was not able to

submit a change request before the Christmas vacation period

You can access the Group Change request form via the Timetabling webpages here

(httpswwwedacukstudent-administrationtimetablingstudents)

Course Work Submission and Penalties

Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties

Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them

There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below Students

must read the full description on each of these at

httpwwwspsedacukundergradcurrent_studentsteaching_and_learningassessment_and_regulationscou

rsework_penalties

Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them Students are responsible for

taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance

Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not

comply with our submission guidance (wrong format incorrect document no cover sheet etc) a

penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work

Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for

each calendar day that work is late up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35

marks) Thereafter a mark of zero will be recorded There is no grace period for lateness and

penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline

Word Count Penalty

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

36 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20

words over the limit If the limit is 1500 words then anything between 1501 and 1520 words will lose

one point and so on

Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions so check your course handbook Make sure

you know what is and what is not included in the word count Again check the course handbook for

this information

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit However you should note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark

ELMA Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system ELMA You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work

Marked coursework grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback

For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA please see our webpages here Remember there is

a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this

Extensions New policy-applicable for years 1 -4

From September 2016 there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from

years one to four

If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline you may request an extension Before you

request an extension make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key

points below You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages

Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days

If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason you should submit your

coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late

submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them

aware of your situation

If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days you should submit

your coursework as soon as you are able and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties

for late submission You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make

them aware of your situation

If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over

deadlines you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account

Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts

General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination General feedback will be

uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned

to Students

Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback The relevant Course Secretary will contact

students to let them know when this is available and how to access it

If students wish to view their scripts for any reason they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email

to arrange this

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents

37 PLIT08011 Political Thinkers 2017-18

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Avoiding Plagiarism

Material you submit for assessment such as your essays must be your own work You can and should draw

upon published work ideas from lectures and class discussions and (if appropriate) even upon discussions

with other students but you must always make clear that you are doing so Passing off anyone elsersquos work

(including another studentrsquos work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism

and will be punished severely

When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own All

submissions will be run through lsquoTurnitinrsquo our plagiarism detection software Turnitin compares every essay

against a constantly-updated database which highlights all plagiarised work Assessed work that contains

plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to

the College Academic Misconduct officer In either case the actions taken will be noted permanently on the

students record For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Servicesrsquo website

httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct

Data Protection Guidance for Students

In most circumstances students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living

identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act The document Personal

Data Processed by Students provides an explanation of why this is the case It can be found with advice on

data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living identifiable

individuals on the Records Management section of the University website at

httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-

policiesdpforstudents