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    BACHELORS WITH POLITICAL SCIENCE AS MAJOR (CT – I)

    5th SEMESTER
    PLS522J1 POLITICAL SCIENCE _ CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY
    CREDITS: THEORY: 03; TUTORIAL: 01
    THEORY: 03 CREDITS:

    UNIT-I: NATURE OF CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY


     Debate On Decline/Resurgence of Political Theory
     State in Political Theory: Liberal, Neo-Liberal, Marxist & Neo-Marxist

    UNIT-II: SOCIAL JUSTICE & RIGHTS


     John Rawls: Distributive Justice
     Robert Nozick: Libertarianism
     Amartya Sen: Development & Democracy

    UNIT-III: DEMOCRACY & DIVERSITY


     Michael Sandel: Communitarianism
     Will Kymlicka: Aborginal Rights
     Bikhu Parekh: Poly-ethnic Rights
     Brain Barry: Critique of Multiculturalism

    TUTORIALS (01 CREDIT)


    Key Debates: Critique of Western Theorization
     Indian Critique
     African critique
     Muslim Critique

    REFERENCES
     Gurjar, L.R., Trends in Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 68, No. 4 (OCT. - DEC., 2007), pp. 827- 834
     Held, David, Introduction in Political Theory Today, Polity Press, p. 1-21
     Vincent, Andrew, We Have a Firm Foundation, in The Nature of Political Theory, Oxford University Press,2007
    p. 19-60
     Rawls, John, Justice as Fairness, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 54, No. 22, American Philosophical
    Association, Dec 1957,
     Rawls, John, Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical, in Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 14, No 3 1985,
    Wiley. P. 223-251
     Dworkin, Ronald, What is Equality? Part 1: Equality of Welfare in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 10, No.
    3. (Summer, 1981), pp. 185-246
     Dworkin, Ronald, What is Equality? Part 2: Equality of Resources in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 10,
    No. 4. (Autumn, 1981), pp. 283-345
     Sen, Amartya, Preface and Introduction, in Development as Freedom, Oxford University Press, p. 2-11
     Kymlicka, Will, Libertarianism, in Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press p. 102-127
     Sandel, Michael, The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self, in ed. Colin Farrelly Contemporary
    Political Theory: A Reader, Sage p 109-125
     Walzer, Michael, Complex Equality, in ed. Colin Farrelly Contemporary Political Theory: A Reader, Sage, p.
    133-144
     Parekh, Bikhu, Equality of Difference, in ed. Colin Farrelly Contemporary Political Theory: A Reader, Sage P.
    282-287
     Jagger, Gill, Gender as Performance and Performative, in Judith Butler: Sexual Politics, Social Change, and the
    Power of the Performative, Routledge, p. 17-50
     Hiddleston, Jane, Introduction, in Understanding Postcolonialism, Routledge, p. 1-24
     Butler, Christopher, New Ways of Seeing the World, in Postmodernism: Very Short Introduction, OUP, p. 13-43
     Frosini, Fabio, Beyond the Crisis of Marxism: Gramsci’s Contested Legacy, in ed. Jacques Bidet & Stathis
    Kouvelakis, Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism, Brill, p. 663-678

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