Syllabus
Part I – Ideology as an Object of Study
Class 1 - Introduction to the Study of Ideologies
Reading: Heywood, A. - Political Ideologies, pp. 1-23 (Chapter 1)
Class 2 - Marx's notion of Ideology
Reading: Marx, K.; Engels, F. - The German Ideology, pp. 29-30, 33-44, 47-58, 67-71 (selections of Part One Feuerbach, Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook)
Class 3 - Non-Marxist Approaches to Ideology
Reading: Freeden, M. - The Morphological Analysis of Ideology IN Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, pp. 115-135.
Part II - Liberalism
Class 4 – Liberalism I
Reading: Mill, J. S. - On Liberty, pp. 73-85, 121-138 (Chapters 1 and 3)
Class 5 - Liberalism II
Reading: Green, T. H. - Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract, especially pp. 369-37 AND Rand, A. - What Is Capitalism? (video)
Assignment alternative: Lib Dem Manifesto
Part III - Socialism
Class 6 – Socialism I
Reading: Kautsky, K. – The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, pp. 3-32.
Class 7 – Socialism II
Reading: Cohen, G. A. - Why not Socialism? OR Fraser, N. – Cannibal Capitalism, pp. xii-xvii, 141-157 (Preface + Chapter 6)
Assignment alternative: Labour Manifesto
PART IV
Class 8 - Conservatism I
Reading: Burke, E. - Reflections on the Revolution in France, pp. 26-33 (Price's Third Claim ), 74-84 (English prejudices) 139-147 (Burke's plan), 208-210 (Conclusion)
Class 9 - Conservatism II
Reading: Kirk, R. - The Conservative Mind, pp. 1-10 AND Scruton, R. - Why I became a conservative
Assignment alternative: Conservative Manifesto
PART V – Beyond Traditional Ideologies
Class 10 - Populism
Reading: Mudde, C, Kaltwasser, R. - Populism: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1 (What is Populism?)
Assignment alternative: Any “Populist” Party Manifesto
Class 11: Postmaterialism I
Reading: Inglehart, R. - The Silent Revolution, pp. 3-39. OR Shiva, V. – Earth Democracy, pp. vii-xxix, 9-11 (Preface and Section Principles of Earth Democracy)
Assignment alternative: Green Party Manifesto
Class 12 Postmaterialism II
Reading: Freeden, M. - Green Ideology In: Ideologies and Political Theory AND Falkvinge, R. - The Pirate Party: The politics of protest. Tedx Talk (video)
Assignment alternative: Czech Pirate Party Manifesto (in Czech)
Class 13 Concluding Remarks
Apart from the above-mentioned compulsary reading for each seminar, the students are required to read a respective “introductory” chapter to every discussed ideology in either:
A) Heywood, A. - Political Ideologies
B) The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies
Annotation
This course offers an introduction to political ideologies. The first part of the course focuses on different Marxist and non-Marxist approaches to the study of ideology.
After the notion of "ideology" is introduced, three blocks devoted to main traditional ideologies (liberalism, socialism and conservatism) follow. Finally, the course shifts its attention to the concluding critical block featuring post-material ideologies and populism.