Political Science

This course surveys the critique of alienation in social and political thought in the last two hundred years. Thematic emphasis is on i) the theory of estranged labor, ii) the historic forms of social consciousness, iii) the conditions of life in modern society, and iv) humanity’s relationship to nature. Writers canvassed in lectures may include Hegel, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Heidegger, authors in the Frankfurt tradition, and more recent commentators like Ivan Illich or Vandana Shiva.