LY340
Freedom, Equality and Reaction in Modern Social, Legal and Political Thought
0.5 Credit

This course will trace intellectual debates from the mid-nineteenth century to the present on the place, and character, of freedom and equality in our social, legal and political order, and explore the socio-historical contexts that animated these debates, including the struggles for legal equality and the rights of workers, the emergence of visions of socialist democracy, the project of empire-building and anti-colonial resistance, the rise of authoritarianism, the development of neoliberalism, the growth of the feminist and queer liberation movements, and the unfolding crises of global capitalism in the 21 st century. Key primary texts from writers in the liberal, socialist, conservative, feminist, queer liberation, and anti-colonial traditions will be read.