Lesson plan / POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THEORY OF THE STATE

Lesson Information

Course Credit 2.0
Course ECTS Credit 4.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The course aims to identify the sources of current information about politics, to present both political thinkers and political concepts in a chronological perspective, and to define different assumptions and thoughts about the nature of politics.
Course Content As the students have already acquired detailed and in-depth knowledge of the political thought and state theories from the Antiquity to the late 18th century in a previous course (General Public Law), the chronological scope of the course will be limited to the 19th and 20th centuries.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction: Political Thought and Political Ideology
2Ideology
3Liberalism
4Conservatism
5Marxism-
6Social Democracy
7Nationalism
8Anarchism
9Feminism
10Fascism
11Corporatism
12Ecologism
13Islamism
14Conclusion

Resources

*Core Readings:

Örs, Birsen (ed.) (2010) 19. Yüzyıldan 20. Yüzyıla Modern Siyasal İdeolojiler, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi.

Tunçel, Ahu & Gülenç, Kurtul (ed.) Siyaset Felsefesi Tarihi (Platon'dan Zizek'e), İstanbul: Doğu-Batı.



*Source Readings:

Tunçay, Mete (ed.) (2011) Batı’da Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi 3: Yakın Çağ, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi.



*General Sources:

Ruby, Christian (2012) Siyaset Felsefesine Giriş, İstanbul: İletişim.

Berktay, Fatmagül (2010) Politikanın Çağrısı, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi.