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Course Name: 3016 POLITICAL THEORY-II
Course Name: 3016 POLITICAL THEORY-II
About the Course:
About the Course:
COURSE OBJECTIVES
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This paper is a core paper that intends to introduce students to themes, concepts and debates in Political Theory. It seeks to develop new insights among students on the relevance of political ideas, political traditions and concepts in understanding the crisis, change and continuity that marks the study of politics in contemporary world.
It deals with the explanation and relevance of the concepts like justice, liberty, equality and toleration in political theory and offers insights on these concepts with the assistance of the recent and most updated writings in this area. It seeks to explore issues in civil society and hegemony.
It introduces students to the idea of citizenship, its emergence and the diverse contestations that it has faced over the period of time.
COURSE OUTCOMES
COURSE OUTCOMES
The paper remains useful for students in developing ideas on politics which is helpful in providing theoretical insights and perspectives to students if they wish to pursue research programme in any area of social science.
The paper has utility for students preparing for UGC NET-JRF exams, SLET exams and other competitive exams like civil service
Course Plan: 3016 POLITICAL THEORY-II
Unit-1 Equality and Justice
Unit-1 Equality and Justice
1. Liberal Equality
2. Libertarianism: Robert Nozik’s Entitlement Theory
4. Amartya Sen’s Perspective on Justice
Unit-2 Liberty and Toleration
Unit-2 Liberty and Toleration
1. The Positive and Negative Liberty: Isaiah Berlin a) Reading link 2
2. A Third Concept of Liberty: Quentin Skinner
3. Liberty, equality and justice: Interlinkages
Unit-3 Civil Society, Political Society and Hegemony
Unit-3 Civil Society, Political Society and Hegemony
1. Civil Society: Contending Perspectives
2. Civil Society and Political Society: The Linkages
3. Hegemony: The Gramscian Tradition
4. Civil Society, Hegemony and Democracy
Unit-4 Citizenship
Unit-4 Citizenship
1. Evolution of the concept of citizenship
2. T H Marshall’s ideas on citizenship
3. Limits of liberal citizenship: Issues of feminism and multiculturalism
4. Citizenship and cosmopolitanism
Reading List:
Unit-1 Equality and Justice
Unit-1 Equality and Justice
Boot, Martijn (2012). ‘The Aim of Theory of Justice’ in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 15, No. 1, (February 2012), pp. 7-21
Crowley, Niall (2003), ‘Perspectives on Equality’ in An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 92, No. 366 (Summer, 2003), pp. 107-112
Farrelly, Colin, Introduction to Contemporary Political Theory, Sage, 2004
Gaertner W, P. K. Pattanaik and Amartya Sen(1988) An Interview with Amartya Sen , Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1988), pp. 69-79
Heywood, Andrew, Political Theory: An Introduction, Palgrave, New York, 2005
Hurter, Estelle (2011), ‘Access to justice: to dream the impossible dream?’ in The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, Vol. 44, No. 3(November 2011), pp. 408-427
Kaufman, Alexander (2004) ‘The Myth of the Patterned Principle: Rawls, Nozick and Entitlements’ in Polity, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Jul., 2004), pp. 559-578
Kymlicka, Will, (2002) Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction, Oxford
Lederkramer, David M. ( 1979) ‘Quest on the Entitlement Theory’ in Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Oct., 1979), pp. 219-222
Ludwig, Martin Rechenauer, On Sen’s Idea of a Theory of Justice * -MaximiliansUniversität München available at https://epub.ub.unimuenchen.de/12572/1/DGphil_Konferenzbeitrag_Rechenauer.pdf
Nock, Christopher John (1992) ‘Equal Freedom and Unequal Property: A Critique of Nozick's Libertarian Case’ in Canadian Journal of Political Science Vol.25, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 677-695
Parekh, Bikhu (1982) Contemporary Political Thinkers, Oxford
Richard and Andrew Mason (ed), Political Concepts, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2003 • Sen, Amartya (2010) The Idea of Justice, Penguin, London
Taherzadeh, Shirin M. (2012), Amartya Sen’s Contribution to a Theory of Social Justice,The University of Cape Town, Faculty of Law (Student Research Paper) Bellamy, *
Unit-2 Liberty and Toleration
Unit-2 Liberty and Toleration
Berlin, I. (1958) “Two Concepts of Liberty.” In Isaiah Berlin (1969) Four Essays on Liberty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Farrelly, Colin, Introduction to Contemporary Political Theory, Sage, 2004
Frisch, Morton J. (1998) A Critical Appraisal of Isaiah Berlin's Philosophy of Pluralism in The Review of Politics, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Summer, 1998), pp. 421-433
Hanley, Ryan Patrick (2004) Political Science and Political Understanding: Isaiah Berlin on the Nature of Political Inquiry in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (May, 2004), pp. 327-339
Heywood, Andrew, Political Theory: An Introduction, Palgrave, New York, 2005 • Mckinnon, Catriona(ed), Issues in Political Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Murphy, Andrew R (1997), Tolerance, Toleration, and the Liberal Tradition in Polity, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Summer, 1997), pp. 593-623
Nelson, Eric Liberty (2005) One Concept Too Many? Political Theory, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Feb., 2005), pp. 58-78
Sen, Amartya (1992), Minimal Liberty’ in Economica, New Series, Vol. 59, No. 234 (May, 1992), pp. 139-159
Skinner, Quentin (2002) A Third Concept of Liberty, Proceedings of the British Academy, 117, pp 237-68
Spector, Horacio (2010), ‘Four Conceptions of Freedom’ in Political Theory, Vol. 38, No. 6 (December 2010), pp. 780-808
Ten, Chin Liew (1999) ‘Liberal Toleration’ Social Research, Vol. 66, No. 4, LIBERTY AND PLURALISM (WINTER 1999), pp. 1167-1189
Unit-3 Civil Society, Political Society and Hegemony
Unit-3 Civil Society, Political Society and Hegemony
Bellamy, Richard and Andrew Mason (ed), Political Concepts, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2003
Bhargava, Rajeev and Ashok Acharya, Political theory: An Introduction, Pearson, Delhi, 2008 • Buttigieg, Joseph A. (1995) Gramsci on Civil Society in Bundary 2, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 1-32
Buttigieg, Joseph A. (1986) The Legacy of Antonio Gramsci’ in Boundary 2, Vol. 14, No. 3, (Spring, 1986), pp. 1-17
Chandhoke, Neera (2007) Civil Society, Development in Practice, Vol. 17, No. 4/5 (Aug., 2007), pp. 607-614
Gudavarthy, Ajay and G. Vijay (2007) Antinomies of Political Society: Implications of Uncivil Development in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42, No. 29 (Jul. 21- 27, 2007), pp. 3051-3059
Heywood, Andrew, Political Theory, Palgrave, New York, 2005
Joseph, Sarah (2002) Society vs State? Civil Society, Political Society and Non-Party Political Process in India in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2002), pp. 299-305
Mckinnon, Catriona(ed), Issues in Political Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Morera, Esteve (1990), ‘Gramsci and Democracy’ in Canadian Journal of Political Science 23, No. 1 (Mar., 1990), pp. 23-37
Mukherjee, Sanjeeb (2010) Civil Society in the East, and the Prospects of Political Society in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45, No. 5 (JANUARY 30- FEBRUARY 5, 2010),pp. 57-59, 61-63
Puri, Ellora (2004) Civil and Political Society: A Contested Relationship? Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39, No. 32 (Aug. 7-13, 2004), pp. 3593-3594
Sen, Arup Kumar (2003), ‘Gramsci's Marxism’ in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 38, No. 10 (Mar. 8-14, 2003), p. 918 Social Problems, Vol. 27, No. 5, (Sociology of Political Knowledge Issue: TheoreticalInquiries, Critiques and Explications ( Jun., 1980), pp. 584-600)
Woolcock, Joseph A (1985) ‘Politics, Ideology and Hegemony in Gramsci's Theory’ in Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 1985), pp. 199-210
Unit-4 Citizenship
Unit-4 Citizenship
Bhargava, Rajeev and Ashok Acharya, Political theory: An Introduction, Pearson, Delhi, 2008
Dryzek, John S., Bonnie Honig and Anne Philips, The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory’, Oxford University Press, 2006,
Erel, Umut (2010) ‘Feminist Citizenship: Activating Politics and Theory’ in Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1/2, CITIZENSHIP (SPRING/SUMMER 2010),pp. 289-294
Heywood, Andrew, Political Theory, Palgrave, New York, 2005
Kymlicka, Will, (2002) Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction, Oxford
Mann, Michael (1987) ‘Ruling Class Strategies and Citizenship’ in Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 3 (August 1987), pp. 339-354
Mckinnon, Catriona(ed), Issues in Political Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Richardson, Diane (1998) Sexuality and Citizenship’ in Sociology, Vol. 32, No. 1 (FEBRUARY 1998), pp. 83-100
Roy, Anupama (2010) Mapping Citizenship in India, Oxford, New Delhi
Yuval-Davis, Nira, ‘Women, Citizenship and Difference’, Feminist Review, No 57, Autumn, 1997, p 4-27
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