Degree Program: Political Science (6th semester – elective)
Teaching hours: 3 per week-ECTS 5
Course Tutor: Apostolos Pantazis, Lecturer
e-mail:apantaz@socadm.duth.gr
CourseOverview:
1. Intoduction: SocialTheoriesoftheState.
2. Mercantilism and the Development of the Modern Society.
3. The Kantian Theory of the Civil Society and the State.
4. Kant and Marx: Austromarxism and Politics.
5. The Hegelian Social Theory. Dialectics and the State.
6. Hegel and Marx: The Dialectical Concept of Modern Society and State.
7. The Marxian Critical Social Theory.
8. Marxism and the Welfare State: Concept and Policies.
9. Ideology and Values of Welfare Theory.
10. ClassStructureandState Theory.
11. The Transformation of the Modern Civil Democracy.
12. LateCapitalismandtheCrisisoftheState.
AimsandObjectives: At the end of this course, students should have knowledge and understanding of:the development of the modern State and how it relates to the social evolution.
Course Readings
- Hegel G.W., Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts oder Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse.
- Hobbes T., Leviathan.
- Kant I., Die Metaphysik der Sitten.
- Kant I., Kritik der praktischen Vernunft.
- Lukacs G., Der junge Hegel.
- Marx K./Engels F., Werke.
- Marcuse H., Reason and Revolution.
- Psychopedis K., Geschichte und Methode. Begründungstypen und Interpretationskriterien der Gesellschaftstheorie: Kant, Hegel, Marx und Weber.