Origins and conflicts of modern politics ; Ancient republics, empires, fiefdoms ; Machiavelli's new order ; Hobbes, natural law, the social contract ; Locke on limited government and toleration ; Rousseau's republican community -- Kant's ethics of duty and natural rights ; Smith and the market revolution ; Montesquieu and the American founding ; Debating the French Revolution ; Legacies of the revolution, right to left ; Nationalism and a people's war -- Civil society, Constant, Hegel, Tocqueville ; Mill on liberty and utility ; Marx's critique of capitalism ; Modern vs. traditional society ; Progressivism and new liberalism ; Fleeing liberalism, varieties of socialism -- Fleeing liberalism, fascism and Carl Schmitt ; Totalitarianism and total war ; Conservative or neoliberal, Oakeshott, Hayek ; Reviving the public realm, Hannah Arendt ; Philosophy vs. politics, Strauss and friends ; Marcuse and the new left -- Rawls's A theory of justice ; Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, libertarianism ; What about community? ; Walzer on everything money shouldn't buy ; Identity politics, feminism ; Identity politics, multiculturalism -- The politics of nature, environmentalism ; Postmodernism, truth, and power ; Habermas, democracy as communication ; The end of history? Clash of civilizations? ; Just wars? The problem of dirty hands ; Why political philosophy matters.
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