Introduction to Political Philosophy
Close philosophical reading of foundational political texts on regime, sovereignty, liberty, and citizenship: Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville.
Steven B. Smith
Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Philosophy
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Polis, Empire & Constitutional Revolutions
Classical Greek citizenship, Roman transformation, and early modern statecraft
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