B.A. Political Science
7th Semester Syllabus
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MJC-13 : Modern Political Philosophy
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Unit 1: Thomas Hobbes
◦Human Nature
◦State of Nature
◦Social Contract
◦Leviathan
Unit 2: John Locke
◦Human Nature
◦Law of Nature
◦Natural Rights
◦Civil Society
◦Theory of Property
◦State
Unit 3: Jean Jacques Rousseau
◦Social Contract
◦General Will
◦State
◦Nature of Sovereignty
Unit 4: Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill
◦Jeremy Bentham: Positive Laws
◦Utilitarianism
◦John Stuart Mill: Liberty
◦Democracy and Representation
Unit 5: Karl Marx
◦Historical Materialism
◦Dialectical Materialism
◦Class Struggle
◦Alienation
◦Communism
◦Revolution
Reference Books:
- Nelson, Brian R., Western Political Thoughts: From Socrates to the Age of Ideology, (2015), Pearson India, Delhi.
- Hamppscher-Monk, I., A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx, (1992), Oxford, Blackwell Publishers.
- Sabine, George H & Thorson, T.L., A History of Political Theory, (1973) Oxford & I.B.H. Publishing, New Delhi.
- Mukherjee, S. & Ramaswamy, Sushila, A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx, (2009), PHI, Delhi.
- Jha, Shefali, Western Political Thought from the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times, (2018), Pearson India, Delhi.
- Colletti, Lucio, From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, (1976), Verso.
- Suda, J.P., Modern Political Thought, (2011), K. Nath & Co., Meerut
- Mukhopadhyay, A.K., Western Political Thought: From Plato-Marx, (1988), K.P. Bagchi & Co., Calcutta.
- Hudelson, Richard, Modern Political Philosophy, (1999), Routledge.
- Kumar, Ravi, Contemporary Readings in Marxism: A Critical Introduction, (2016), Aakar Books, New Delhi.
- Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction, (2014), OUP,
- Wayper, C.L., Political Thought, (1965), Hutchinson, London.
- Shukla, Haridwar, Modern Political Philosophy, (2022), Mahaveer Publications.