Political Science 211 - Pol Theory of Liberalism

Fall
2015
01
4.00
Thomas Dumm
TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM
Amherst College
POSC-211-01-1516F
OCTA 200
tldumm@amherst.edu

[PT] 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.  Fall semester.  Professor Dumm.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.