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: Bentham, Jeremy. 1982 fp 1789. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Bentham, Jeremy. 1988 fp 1776. A Fragment on Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bentham, Jeremy. 1993 fp 1817. 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