Political Science 211 - Pol Theory of Liberalism
Spring
2013
01
4.00
Thomas Dumm
TTH 10:00AM-11:20AM
Amherst College
POSC-211-01-1213S
BEBU 107
tldumm@amherst.edu
[PT] [PT - starting with the Class of 2015] This course is a survey of Western liberal political theory from its 17th-century origins through some of its contemporary expressions. Among the thinkers whose works we may read are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Stanley Cavell, and Judith Sklar.
Limited to 40 students. Spring semester. Professor Dumm.