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Curr. § 6 (1) 2: The lecture gives an overview of social and political ideas from the beginnings of intellectual history to the period of classical sociological theory starting in the 19th century. Reference is made to the importance for the current discourse in the social sciences.

Learning objective of the VO: The students can describe the history of social and political ideas in their meaning for contemporary social science.

1 INTRODUCTION What is political theory? What is historical sociology?

2 HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY

3 STATE (1): interpretations of political modernity in the early modern period

4 STATE (2): interpretations of political modernism during the Enlightenment and democratic revolutions

5 STATE (3): Criticism of the modern state

6 STATE (4): The modern state and totalitarianism

7 MARKET (1): Interpretations of Economic Modernity

8 MARKET (2): Crisis of Democracy and Capitalism

9 KNOWLEDGE (1): Interpretations of epistemic modernity: the scientific revolutions

10 KNOWLEDGE (2): Critique of epistemic modernity: Foucault, Lyotard

11 EUROPE & WORLD: European modernity and its critics

12 Flexible unit for guest lecture or research

13 Exam

Lecture & Discussion

Written Exam

Kursbuch: Schaal, Gary  S./Heidenreich, Felix. Einführung in die politischen Theorien der Moderne. 2. erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2009. (Preis im Buchhandel 16,80 euro).

Weitere Literatur, insbesondere Primärliteratur, im OLAT.

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