POLS 5730 Contemporary Political Ideologies

POLS 5730 Contemporary Political Ideologies

POLS 5730 Contemporary Political Ideologies

Introduction to Ideologies
What are some contemporary debates about ideology?
1. Francis Fukuyama, Introduction to The End of History and the Last Man (1992), online at

Introduction continued: Ideology, Power, and Cultural Hegemony

What are ideologies? Why do we study them? How do we study them?
Assigned readings:
1. Nancy Love Ch 1 “The End of Ideology—Again?” in Understanding Dogmas and Dreams, 1-18.

Genealogy as a way of illuminating (ideological) hegemony

1. Friedrich Neitzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, First Essay, http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/nietzsche/genealogytofc.htm
2. Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon, “A Genealogy of ‘Dependency’: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State,” Signs (Winter 1994): 309-336, Pius Library electronic database, JSTOR

Liberalism (and neoliberalism)

1. Love, Ch. 2 “Liberalism,” 21-51,
2. In Dogma and Dreams reader:
Locke, Treatise of Civil Government
Madison, Hamilton, Jay, The Federalist Papers, #’s 10 & 51
Thomas Hill Green, “Lecture on Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract

Socialism and Marxism
Assigned:
1. Love, Ch 4, “Socialism,” 79-106
2. In Dogma and Dreams reader:
Marx, “Estranged Labor,” from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Feminism
Assigned:
1. Love, Ch 7, “Feminism,” 167-194
2. In Dogmas and Dreams reader:
Mary Wollstonecraft, “Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
Betty Friedan, “Our Revolution is Unique”
Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles”
3. Anne Norton, “Engendering An