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