PO405 Contemporary Political Thought
A study of the contemporary works of political theory. Works studied may include those of Hanna Arendt, Karl Popper, Friedrick Hayek, Leo Strauss, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Voegelin, Auriel Kolnai, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Martin Rhonheimer, Raymond Aron, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jurgen Habermas. This course may also focus on contemporary understandings of liberalism and communitarianism through the works of John Rawls, Robert Nozik, Michael Sandel, Charles Taylor Pierre Manent, and John Courtney Murray. Offered periodically.