Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL2059: Political Thought of Modernity

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level 5
Credits 15 ECTS Value 7.5
Term(s) and duration

This module will run during term 2 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Professor Robert Lamb (Convenor)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

This module will introduce you to some of the most influential, fascinating, and controversial texts and traditions in Western political thought – from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century – and, in so doing, will encourage you to interrogate how the very idea of modernity is conceptualised and contested. In reading these texts, you will come to understand, and engage in critique of, the modern political concepts – rights, freedom, equality, democracy, civil society, property, revolution, the state, and modernity itself – that continue to animate our civic discussions as well as the intellectual traditions (liberalism, Idealism, Marxism) of the modern period.

Module created

01/10/2010

Last revised

25/01/2021