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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Tomáš Halamka, Ph.D. (30.09.2021)
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Tomáš Halamka, Ph.D. (21.09.2020)
The course aims to offer the students a decent understanding of ideologies as an organizing cluster of political concepts as well as an insight to some of the most influential ideas and texts in liberal, socialist and conservative traditions of political thought. Participation in the seminar should improve the students’ analytical, writing and argumentative skills and it is devised to support, broaden and further develop knowledge gained in compulsory courses on political philosophy. It is therefore highly recommended to attend this course after taking the compulsory classes focused on political philosophy. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Tomáš Halamka, Ph.D. (30.09.2023)
Course Grading: Attendance: Obligatory (maximum of 2 absences) Active Participation: 10% Assignments: 40% (2x20%) Final Exam: 50%
Attendance Attendance is obligatory in this course. Each student is allowed to miss the class twice. More unexcused absences will prevent the student from taking the final exam and completing the course. Active Participation Students are expected to actively and meaningfully engage in class discussions. Therefore, reading the texts in advance of the class is of paramount importance.
Assignments Each course participant has to submit two assignments. The assignments must relate to the text discussed at the seminar. More specifically, each assignment should concentrate on a particular issue or idea in the text that the student finds interesting. The selected issue can either be analysed as such or related to other thinkers, historical parallels, temporal context or contemporary politics of the present day. Each student is expected to introduce the assignment in class. Each assignment has to be made for different seminars and submitted at least 24 hours before the seminar class starts. The required length of one assignment is 800–1200 words. The use of secondary literature or other additional resources is highly recommended. The assignments are to be submitted via Moodle. The assignment topics have to be selected via Moodle poll by October 15.
Final Exam The final oral exam is focused on one of the main course topics and related literature. The student selects a random number (1-12) corresponding with the respective class session by lot. Topics which were covered in the student's assignments are excluded. See Moodle course page for further details. Grading Scale The Faculty of Social Sciences uses the following A-F grading scale
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Tomáš Halamka, Ph.D. (28.09.2023)
Part I – Ideology as an Object of Study Class 1 - Introduction to the Study of Ideologies Reading: Heywood, A. - Political Ideologies, pp. 1-23 (Chapter 1)
Class 2 - Marx's notion of Ideology Reading: Marx, K.; Engels, F. - The German Ideology, pp. 29-30, 33-44, 47-58, 67-71 (selections of Part One Feuerbach, Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook)
Class 3 - Non-Marxist Approaches to Ideology Reading: Freeden, M. - The Morphological Analysis of Ideology IN Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, pp. 115-135.
Part II - Liberalism Class 4 – Liberalism I Reading: Mill, J. S. - On Liberty, pp. 73-85, 121-138 (Chapters 1 and 3)
Class 5 - Liberalism II Reading: Green, T. H. - Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract, especially pp. 369-37 AND Rand, A. - What Is Capitalism? (video) Assignment alternative: Lib Dem Manifesto
Part III - Socialism Class 6 – Socialism I Reading: Kautsky, K. – The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, pp. 3-32.
Class 7 – Socialism II Reading: Cohen, G. A. - Why not Socialism? OR Fraser, N. – Cannibal Capitalism, pp. xii-xvii, 141-157 (Preface + Chapter 6) Assignment alternative: Labour Manifesto
PART IV Class 8 - Conservatism I Reading: Burke, E. - Reflections on the Revolution in France, pp. 26-33 (Price's Third Claim ), 74-84 (English prejudices) 139-147 (Burke's plan), 208-210 (Conclusion)
Class 9 - Conservatism II Reading: Kirk, R. - The Conservative Mind, pp. 1-10 AND Scruton, R. - Why I became a conservative Assignment alternative: Conservative Manifesto
PART V – Beyond Traditional Ideologies Class 10 - Populism Reading: Mudde, C, Kaltwasser, R. - Populism: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1 (What is Populism?) Assignment alternative: Any “Populist” Party Manifesto
Class 11: Postmaterialism I Reading: Inglehart, R. - The Silent Revolution, pp. 3-39. OR Shiva, V. – Earth Democracy, pp. vii-xxix, 9-11 (Preface and Section Principles of Earth Democracy) Assignment alternative: Green Party Manifesto
Class 12 Postmaterialism II Reading: Freeden, M. - Green Ideology In: Ideologies and Political Theory AND Falkvinge, R. - The Pirate Party: The politics of protest. Tedx Talk (video) Assignment alternative: Czech Pirate Party Manifesto (in Czech)
Class 13 Concluding Remarks
Apart from the above-mentioned compulsary reading for each seminar, the students are required to read a respective “introductory” chapter to every discussed ideology in either:
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