European Political Ideas 2105-EPE-L-D3EUPI

Upon completion of the course the students will:
• understand principal theories of European political ideas and their influence on contemporary social and political life as well as their influence on international relations and European integration (K_W01),
• be able to name the most important periods and turning points in the history of contemporary social and political ideas (K_W06),
• be able to monitor, interpret and discuss the major issues present in European political ideas (K_U01),
• be able to draw his / her own conclusions and to present them in the form of a presentation (K_K01).

• Attendance (two abstentions per semester are acceptable),
• In-class participation,
• One short assignment on Google Classroom,
• Presentation.

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Essential readings:
Ball, Terence, Richard Dagger, and Daniel I. O’Neill, eds. 2017. Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader. Abington, New York: Routledge (selected texts).
Heywood, Andrew. 2017. Political Ideologies: An Introduction. London: Palgrave.
Sargent, Lyman Tower. 2009. Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis. Belmont: Wadsworth.

Further readings:
Anderson, Benedict. 2006. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.
Arendt, Hanna. 1951. The Origins of Totalitarianism. London: Allen & Unwin.
Aschraft, Richard. 1986. Revolutionary Politics and Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
Beck, Ulrich. 2005. Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy. Translated by Kathleen Cross. Cambridge: Polity.
Bell, Daniel. 2000. The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties with “The Resumption of History in the New Century.” Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bloom, Allan. 1987. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Brown, Wendy. 2006. “Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization.” Political Theory 34(6): 690–71.
Bryson, Valerie, ed. 2003. Feminist Political Theory: An Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Call, Lewis. 2002. Postmodernism Anarchism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Carvell, Terrell. 2017. “Ideology: The Career of a Concept.” In eds. 2017. Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, edited by Terence Ball, Richard Dagger, and Daniel I. O’Neill, 4–12. Abington, New York: Routledge.
Chan, Andy. 2004. “Violence, nonviolence, and the Concept of Revolution in Anarchist Thought.” Anarchist Studies 12(2): 103–123.
Crick, Bernard. 2002. Democracy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Crick, Bernard. 2006. “Justifications of Violence.” The Political Quarterly 77 (4): 433–438.
Dahl, Robert A. 1989. Democracy and Its Critics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Debord, Guy. 1994. The Society of the Spectacle. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, New York: Zone Books.
Dobson, Andrew. 2007. Green Political Thought. London: Routledge.
Eatwell, Roger. 1994. “Fascism.” In Contemporary Political Ideologies, edited by Roger Eatwell, and Anthony Wright, 169–191. London: Pinter Publishers.
Kalyvas, Andreas, and Ira Katznelson. 2008. Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kennedy, Emmet. 1979. "Ideology" from Destutt De Tracy to Marx.” Journal of the History of Ideas 40(3): 353–368.
Freeden, Michael. 1998. “Is Nationalism a Distinct Ideology?” Political Studies 46(4): 748–765.
Freeden, Michael. 2003. Ideology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Freeden, Michel. 2006. “Ideology and Political Theory.” Journal of Political Ideologies 11(1): 3–22.
Freeden, Michael. 2008. “European Liberalisms: An Essay in Comparative Political Thought.” European Journal of Political Theory 7(1): 7–30.
Friedan, Betty. 2001. The Feminine Mystique. New York: W.W. Norton.
Fung, Archon. “Deliberation Before the Revolution: Toward an Ethics of Deliberative Democracy in an Unjust World.” Political Theory 33(3): 397–419.
Geertz, Clifford. 1964. “Ideology as a Cultural System.” In Ideology and Discontent, edited by David E. Apter, 47–76. New York: Free Press of Glencoe.
Gordon, Uri. 2007. “Anarchism Reloaded.” Journal of Political Ideologies 12(1): 29–48.
Griffin, Roger. 2006. “Ideology and culture.” Journal of Political Ideologies 11(1): 77–99.
Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. 2000. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Harootunian, Harry. 2006. “The Future of Fascism.” Radical Philosophy 136: 23–33.
Harvey, David. 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Held, David. 2006. Models of Democracy. Cambridge: Polity.
Huntington, Samuel P. 1957. “Conservatism as an Ideology.” American Political Science Review 51(1): 454–473.
Jennings, Jeremy. 1994. “Anarchism.” In Contemporary Political Ideologies, edited by Roger Eatwell, and Anthony Wright, 127–146. London: Pinter Publishers.
Laclau, Ernesto, and Chantal Mouffe. 2001. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. Translated by Winston Moore and Paul Cammack. London: Verso.
Mannheim, Karl. 1986. Conservatism: A Contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge.
Leach, Robert. 1996. British Political Ideologies. London: Prentice Hall.
Máiz, Ramón. 2003. “Framing the Nation: Three Rival Versions of Contemporary Nationalist Ideology.” Journal of Political Ideologies 8(3): 251–267.
Micocci, Andrea, and Flavia Di Mario. 2018. The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism. Abington, New York: Routledge.
Mouffe, Chantal. 2005. On the Political. London: Routledge.
Norton, Bryan G. 2005. Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Paxton, Robert O. 2004. The Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Phillips, Anne. 2006. “‘Really’ Equal: Opportunities and Autonomy.” Journal of Political Philosophy 14(1): 18–32.
Purkis, Jonathan, and James Bowen, eds. 2004. Changing Anarchism: Anarchist Theory and Practice in a Global Age. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Sassoon, Donald. 2014. One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century. London: I.B. Tauris.
Spencer, Philip, and Howard Wollman. 1998. “Good and Bad Nationalisms: A Critique of Dualism.” Journal of Political Ideologies 3(3): 255–274.
Spencer, Philip, and Howard Wollman. 2002. Nationalism: A Critical Introduction. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage.
Steger, Manfred B. 2005. Globalism: Market Ideology Meets Terrorism, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2002. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton.
Tebble, Adam James. 2006. “Exclusion for Democracy.” Political Theory 34(4): 463–487.
Turner, Rachel S. 2007. “The ‘rebirth of liberalism’: The origins of neoliberal ideology.” Journal of Political Ideologies 12(1): 67–83.
Vincent, Andrew. 2010. Modern Political Ideologies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Ward, Colin. 2004. Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodcock, George. 2004. Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements. Peterborough: Broadview Encore Editions.
Žižek, Slavoj. 1989. The Sublime Object of Ideology. London: Verso.

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