Term

Week

Block

Lecture and Seminar Topic

Deliberating the Self: Journals/Diaries/Autobiography:

John Bunyan; Samuel Pepys; Dudley Ryder; James Boswell; Fanny Burney; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Benjamin Franklin

Lecture slides

Intro lecture

Female Constructions: Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication, Maria) and Mary Hays (Memoirs of Emma Courtney)

Lecture slides

Black Narratives: The History of Mary Prince 

There are 4 distinct elements here: PrefaceLink opens in a new window - Master and SlaveLink opens in a new window - HartmanLink opens in a new window - AmeryLink opens in a new window

 The Romantic Self: Leopardi/Stendhal/Hazlitt/Moritz

Lecture Slides

~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars -

Alternative SelvesLink opens in a new window 

Lecture Slides

Nature and State: Government and the individual: Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

lecture slides

Interests, Consumption and the Virtues and Vices: B de Mandeville and Addison and Steele

Fashion Clothes/Hair/Consumer Goods/The Tatler/Spectator

lecture slides

The Discovery of Society: Montesquieu, Kames and Millar

lecture slides

11

ie: week 1 term 2

Week 1 Term 2

Society and its Productivity: Adam Smith

Lecture Part one Lecture Part two

Notes on Bk V

week 2

12

The Critique of the Social: J J Rousseau, Discourse on Origin of Inequality/Wollstonecraft Vindication (ch 9, 13 (sect III) see also ch 4)Link opens in a new window

For slides see Moodle, and for lecture capture see 2020-21 T2W3 both parts

Or see here for Part one and Part twoLink opens in a new window

week 3

13

Contrasting Republics: J J Rousseau / Federalist Papers/Mercy Otis Warren

For slides see Moodle, and for lecture capture see 2020-21

Lecture on Institutional designLink opens in a new window

Commerce and Republics: Ferguson and ConstantLink opens in a new window

lecture slides FergusonLink opens in a new window ConstantLink opens in a new window (see also lecture capture)

Improvement and its Critics: William Godwin /Thomas Malthus

For slides see Moodle, and for lecture capture see 2020-21

~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars ~

The Contribution of Labour: E. Sieyes/Paine/Charles Fourier/Robert Owen/Feminist Political Economy

lecture Slides

The Nation as Community: J. G. Herder/ J. G. Fichte Addresses

lecture Slides

Constitutionalism: G. W. F. Hegel – Philosophy of Right

This week's lectures cover both this week and the last week of term - you are strongly advised to listen to all the parts of the lecture prior to the class - if that is not possible start with the first and last section.

class instructions for weeks 18 and 20 are here - and there is some discussion of the material in Hegel I and Hegel IV

This week's material is part of Hegel I-IV and the classes are the second of the two classes on Hegel's Philosophy of Right

see class instructions for week 19

Order and Change: E. Burke – Reflections/ J. S. Mill Spirit of the Age

22

Democratic Society: Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America 1835 and 1840

Historical Determinism/All that is Solid Melts into Air: Karl Marx

Revision. Please start with the marking exerciseLink opens in a new window here. You can find the exam answer to mark here

You should also look at past papers - and think about how to answer the questions. There is an e-mail setting out our proposals for supporting you in this - copied hereLink opens in a new window.

Here are the papers from 2017Link opens in a new window, 2018Link opens in a new window, and 2019Link opens in a new window 

And here is a set of slides about how you might approach answering questions

answering exam questions slidesLink opens in a new window