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PLSC 361 - Modern Political Thought

Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3

Description: Covers the major representatives of modern political thought since the Renaissance. Follows the development of the specifically modern notion of thestate and political action through the works of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Lenin. Emphasizes the “instrumentalist” state and the idea of a political science.


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