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Social and Political Philosophy - OPDX1O109B
Title: Sociální a politická filozofie
Guaranteed by: Katedra občanské výchovy a filosofie (41-KOVF)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2021
Semester: both
E-Credits: 0
Hours per week, examination: 0/0, other [HT]
Extent per academic year: 8 [hours]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: combined
Teaching methods: combined
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
enabled for web enrollment
can be fulfilled in the future
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Michael Hauser, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Michael Hauser, Ph.D. (23.11.2020)
The main goal of this course is to introduce students to social and political philosophy with a focus on the concepts of liberal democracy and populism. Students will get acquainted with the historical development of the main concepts of social and political philosophy and their current interpretation, in order to understand the ideological foundations of liberal democracy and populism. Students will learn how to understand these concepts in broader cultural, historical and social contexts, and to connect them with the challenges of current social development. After passing this course, students should be able to orient themselves in contemporary discussions on these topics, and be able to match theoretical issues of social and political philosophy with their actual forms in social life, as it corresponds to the intentions of the philosophy of education. Content: ● The development of the basic concepts of social and political philosophy in modern thinking. Hegel's conception of civil society and the state. Marx's distinction between citizenship and social being. Negative and positive understandings of freedom (Isaiah Berlin, Gerald Cohen). Fukuyama's thesis on liberal democracy as the end of history. The main issues regarding human rights in the past and present world. ● What are the definitions of liberal democracy? Liberal conception (Berlin, Hayek, Nozick); procedural and normative concepts (Rawls, Habermas); radically democratic conception (Mouffová, Balibar, Rancière). Critiques of the concept of liberal democracy (Marx, Schmitt, Agamben). ● The concepts of populism and illiberal democracy in social and cultural contexts. The relationship between populism, democracy and oligarchy in the history of political thought (sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Rousseau). The contemporary debate on populism (Panizza, de la Torre, Laclau, Mouff). The concept of illiberal democracy (Zakaria). The theory of metapopulism as a transition phase between liberal democracy and the hitherto developed political and social model.
Literature -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Michael Hauser, Ph.D. (17.11.2020)

Obligatory literature:

 

BERLIN, Isaiah. „Dva pojmy svobody“. In: KIS, János (ed.). Současná politická filozofie. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1997.

COHEN, Gerald, „Svoboda a peníze“. Filosofický časopis, roč. 48, č. 1, 2000, s. 89-120.

HEGEL, Georg, W., F. Základy filosofie práva. Praha: Academia, 1992.

LACLAU, Ernesto. On Populist Reason. London: Verso, 2005.

MARX, Karel. „K židovské otázce“. In: MARX, Karel a ENGELS, Bedřich. Spisy, sv. 1. Praha: SNPL, 1956, s. 371- 400.

RANCIÈRE, Jacques. Neshoda. Politika a filosofie. Praha: Svoboda Servis, 2011.

RAWLS, John. Teorie spravedlnosti. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995.

SHAPIRO, Ian a HABERMAS, Jürgen. Teorie demokracie dnes. Praha: Filosofia, 2001.

 

Recommended literature:

 

AGAMBEN, Giorgio. State of Exception. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.

BALIBAR, Étienne. Equaliberty. Political Essays. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

BALIBAR, Étienne. Násilí a civilita. Praha: Rybka Pulishers, 2016.

BUTLER, Judith. Rámce války: za které životy netruchlíme? Praha: Karolinum, 2013.

FUKUYAMA, Francis. Konec dějin a poslední člověk. Praha: Rybka Publishers, 2004.

HAUSER, Michael. „Metapopulism in-between democracy and populism“. Distinktion. Journal of Social Theory, roč. 19, č. 1, 2018, s. 68-87.

MOUFFE, Chantal. The Democratic Paradox. London: Verso, 2009.

MOYN, Samuel. The Last Utopia. Human Rights in History. Cambridge, Massachuttes: Harvard University Press, 2010.

RANCIÈRE, Jacques. „Who is the subject of the Right of Man?“ South Atlantic Quarterly, roč. 103, č. 2-3.

SCHMITT, Carl. Pojem politična. Brno a Praha: Oikoymenh, 2007.

PANIZZA, Francisco (ed.). Populism and the Mirror of Democracy. London: Verso, 2005.

ZAKARIA, Fareed. „The Rise of Illiberal Democracy“. Foreign Affairs, roč. 76, č. 6, 1997.

Teaching methods -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Michael Hauser, Ph.D. (17.11.2020)

Lecture, seminar, individual work.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Michael Hauser, Ph.D. (17.11.2020)

The student will defend theses that he or she gain from the study of the compulsory literature.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Michael Hauser, Ph.D. (17.11.2020)

Oral exam from the study material.

 
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