Political Thought: Bentham to Weber Lectures Hilary Term 2011, Mondays 10.00 a.m. Manor Road Building
Elizabeth Frazer, New College https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/socsci/politics/teaching/tutors/e_frazer
1. Themes in nineteenth century political thought
2. Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832: rational government and progress
3. Henri Saint-Simon 1760 to 1825 and Saint-Simonianism: social science and socialism
4. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805-1859: freedom, state and mass society
5. John Stuart Mill 1806-1873: freedom and feminism
6. Emil Durkheim 1858-1917: social science and social order
7. Max Weber 1864-1920: liberalism, socialism and state violence
8. State, society and family in the context of social change.
Texts and other works consulted:
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