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Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL2059: Political Thought of Modernity

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Themes and authors covered may vary slightly from year to year. Some of the authors and themes covered may comprise:
Rousseau’s critique of civilisation, the origins of inequality and its consequence; The Social Contract and the General Will.

Burke on rationalism and custom, radical and conservative Freedom, and Burkes response to the French Revolution and his critics.

Paine and Natural Rights theory.

Wollstonecraft and the beginning of feminism thought; the socialization of men and women.

Kants ideas of the Enlightenment, of Public right, of Perpetual peace and cosmopolitan duties.

Hegels Philosophy of Rights account of abstract right, civil society, the state, international order and world history.

From Hegel to Marx: the critique of religion and the materialisation of alienation.

Marxs theory of history, structure and change; his critique of capitalism.

Mills Utilitarianism, his essay On Liberty, and The Subjection of Women.

Nietzsche on the death of God and the illusion of morality, on Overman and its implications for politics.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Indicative Reading List

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