Goucher College 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Goucher College 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

Social and Political Theory Minor


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The minor in social and political theory exposes students to a series of profound attempts to place social life within a comprehensive theoretical framework. Critiques of such a project are also examined. Texts explore the relationships among culture, political life, personal identity, and collective identity, and illuminate contemporary concerns about freedom, responsibility, justice, legitimacy, individuality, and reason. Thinkers include Sophocles, Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Comte, Kierkegaard, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, Addams, Sartre, Arendt, Foucault, Derrida, and Haraway.

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