SUİ343

School of Economics and Administrative Sciences \ Political Science and International Relations

3

6

Elective

Turkish

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The course has elective status for students from all departments.

The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to the fundamental theoretical debates that have shaped the perception, discourse and practice of (post-)modern politics from the eighteenth century to the present. The term will begin with a theoretical comparison of the concepts of freedom and equality and their modern political analyses; first, the middle ground of these two concepts and then their extreme projections will be discussed. The second half of the term will be devoted to the criticisms of the approaches mentioned up to this point and the new ideas put forward for the late period of modernity. The main goal is to enable students to approach the daily political and social events they encounter in their lives within a theoretical framework.

David Miller, Political Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
John Stuart Mill, Faydacılık, S. Aktuyun (çev.), İstanbul: Alfa, 1863/2017.
Robert Nozick, Anarşi, Devlet ve Ütopya, A. Oktay (çev.), İstanbul: İ.B.Ü.Y., 1974/2006.
John A. Rawls, Bir Adalet Teorisi, V.A. Coşar (çev.), Ankara: Phoenix, 1999/2017.
Antonio Gramsci, Seçme Yazılar 1916-1935, D. Forgacs (der.), İ. Yıldız (çev.), Ankara: Dipnot, 2010.
Louis Althusser, İdeoloji ve Devletin İdeolojik Aygıtları, A. Tümertekin (çev.), İstanbul: İthaki, 1968/2006.
Nicos Poulantzas, Faşizm ve Diktatörlük, A. İnsel (çev.), İstanbul: İletişim, 1974/2016.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mülkiyet Nedir?, D. Çetinkasap (çev.), İstanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası, 1840/2011.
Max Stirner, Biricik ve Mülkiyeti, S. T. Noyan (çev.), İstanbul: Kaos, 1844/2013.
Mihail A. Bakunin, Devlet ve Anarşi, M. Uyurkulak (çev.), İstanbul: Agora, 1873/2006.
Pyotr Kropotkin, Karşılıklı Yardımlaşma, I. Ergüden ve D. Güneri (çev.), İstanbul: Kaos, 1902/2001.
Carl Schmitt, Siyasal Kavramı, E. Göztepe (çev.), İstanbul: Metis, 1932/2006.
Hannah Arendt, İnsanlık Durumu, B. S. Şener (çev.), İstanbul: İletişim, 1958/2012.
Thedor W. Adorno ve Max Horkheimer, Aydınlanmanın Diyalektiği: Felsefi Fragmanlar, N. Ülner ve E. Ö. Karadoğan (çev.), İstanbul: Kabalcı, 1944/2010.
Herbert Marcuse, Tek-Boyutlu İnsan: İleri İşleyim Toplumun İdeolojisi Üzerine İncelemeler, A. Yardımlı (çev.), İstanbul: İdea Yayınevi.
Jürgen Habermas, Kamusallığın Yapısal Dönüşümü, M. Sancar ve T. Bora (çev.), İstanbul: İletişim, 1962/2015.
Michel Foucault, Hapishanenin Doğuşu: Gözetim Altında Tutmak ve Cezalandırmak, M. A. Kılıçbay (çev.), İstanbul: İmge, 1975/2017.
Jean Baudrillard, Simulakrlar ve Simülasyon, O. Adanır (çev.), Ankara: Doğu-Batı, 1982/2008.
Jacques Derrida, Gramatoloji, İ. Birkan (çev.), Ankara: BilgeSu, 1967/2011.

To provide students with the ability to use the dominant political theories that have emerged from the eighteenth century to the present in order to explain and understand current political and social events.

1. Students will gain comparative knowledge about political theories that emerged in the eighteenth century and later.
2. Students will learn about approaches to fundamental concepts of political thought such as freedom, equality, the state, social justice, social reproduction and discourse from different theoretical perspectives.
3. Students will gain basic knowledge about the structure-actor debate that is central to political thought.
4. Students will learn about critical and post-structuralist approaches, which are not sufficiently emphasized in other university curricula, especially in the second half of the semester.

Week 1: Politics, Philosophy, Sociology
Week 2: Utilitarianism
Week 3: Libertarianism
Week 4: Social Justice
Week 5: Marxist Political Theories
Week 6: Marxist Political Theories
Week 7: Anarchism
Week 8: Totalitarianism
Week 9: Critical Theory
Week 10: Critical Theory
Week 11: Post-Structuralism
Week 12: Gender

• Midterm 25 %
• Final 30 %
• Participation 15 %
• Term Paper 30 %