ECTS:

5

Code:

ΚΥ0302

Cycle / Level:

Undergraduate

Compulsory / Optional:

Compulsory

Teaching Period:

Winter

Course Content:

Week 1. Introduction to the field of contemporary political theory. The moment of John Rawls and his Theory of Justice.
Week 2. The two principles of Justice and the definition of egalitarian liberalism.
Week 3. Rawls and Dworkin.
Week 4. Libertanism and the minimal state. Historical-political contexte and the reapproriation of classical liberal theories.
Week 5. The communitarian critique of liberal individualism. Neoaristotelism and civic republicanism.
Week 6. The righ and the good. Concepts and problems.
Week 7. Michael Walzer and Charles Taylor. The communitarian-liberal synthesis.
Week 8. The problem of citizenship and multiculturalism. Introduction to the field.
Week 9. Forms and types of multiculturalism.
Week 10.Procedural and deliberative democracy. Between Rawls and Habermas.
Week 11. Feminist political theory. Liberal and radical democratic feminism.
Week 12. Consensus and conflict. Radical critics and the theories of rational consensus and moral univerasalism.
Week 13. Final Recapitulation. Chosen topics for discussion.

Demonstrate an understanding of major contemporary political theories and concepts Familiarity with fundamental aspects of political ideas Synthesize, analyse and criticaly debating basic arguments

Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)

1. Adam Swift, Πολιτική φιλοσοφία. Εισαγωγικός οδηγός για φοιτητές και πολιτικούς,[επιμέλεια: Φιλήμων Παιονίδης μετάφραση: Γιώργος Λαμπράκος], Αθήνα, εκδόσεις Οκτώ, 2015.
2. Andrew Shorten, Σύγχρονη πολιτική θεωρία, Αθήνα, εκδόσεις ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΑΕ, 2017 (KΩΔΙΚΟΣ ΕΥΔΟΞΟΣ: 68379748)

Additional bibliography for study

• Heywood, Andrew, Πολιτική θεωρία. Μια εισαγωγή, Επίκεντρο, 2020.
• Renaut, Alain, Τι είναι ένας ελεύθερος λαός; Φιλελευθερισμός ή ρεπουμπλικανισμός, Πόλις.
• Kymlicka, Will, Η πολιτική φιλοσοφία της εποχής μας, Αθήνα, Πόλις, 2004
• Sandel, Michael, Ο φιλελευθερισμός και τα όρια της δικαιοσύνης, Αθήνα, Πόλις, 2004
• Hampsher, Ian, A history of modern political thought, Blackwell, 1992.
• Walzer, Michael, Τhe communitarian critic of Liberalism, Political Theory, vol. 18 (1)
• Χατζής, Αριστείδης, «Η αναβίωση της ρεπουμπλικανικής θεωρίας δικαίου: μια κριτική προσέγγιση», Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία, Άνοιξη 2000, τ.4, 79-116
• Plant, R. Modern Political Thought, Oxford, Blackwell, 1991.
• Barry, Norman, An introduction to modern political theories, London, Macmillan, 1995.
• Raz, J. The morality of freedom, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986.
• G. den Hartogh, The Good life as a Public Good, Dordnecht, Kluwer, 2000.
• Rawls, John, Θεωρία δικαιοσύνης, Αθήνα, Πόλις.
• Rawls, John, Πολιτικός Φιλελευθερισμός, Μεταίχμιο.