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POLITICS and INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
POLITICAL THINKERS 2017-18
PLIT08011
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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
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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
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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
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httpwwwedacukarts-humanities-soc-scitaught-studentsstudent-conductacademic-misconduct
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httpwwwedacukschools-departmentsrecords-management-sectiondata-protectionguidance-
policiesdpforstudents
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