1. Introduction
William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology & Political Science
45:51·2011·undergraduate level
This inaugural lecture for Yale's Foundations of Modern Social Thought introduces the intellectual landscape of influential thinkers from Hobbes and Locke to Marx and Nietzsche, outlining their biographical contexts and core philosophical contributions to social theory.
Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151)
Professor Szelenyi introduces the course to the students. Then he introduces each social thinker we will cover in the course: Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Smith, J.S. Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, and Durkheim. He provides an overview of their biographies, their major works, and their major contributions.
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