Political Science 271 - Modern Pol Thought
Spring
2025
01
3.00
Michael Stein
TU TH 5:30PM 6:45PM
UMass Amherst
49779
Machmer Hall room W-15
mstein@umass.edu
Reading of selected political theorists from 16th to 19th centuries: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, and Nietzsche. Emphasis on the nature of the political world and the forms of understanding and activity appropriate to it.
Open to Senior, Junior and Sophomore POLISCI majors & minors. Strongly suggest taking Polisci 171 prior.