Discipline

Civil Society: Its Foundations and Future

Course Number
HS 640
Credit
6
Discipline Type
Philosophy

Relations between the family and civil society - Plato and Aristotle, Civility and Intellectual Autonomy – Kant, Civil Society as the site of inequality – Rousseau, Origin of Civility in the sentiment of sympathy – Smith, Communism as the future of civility - Marx, The Civil Sphere as a Contemporary Idea – Jeffery, Post-Colonial Democracies and Civil Society – Chatterjee, De-Provincializing Civility, Civility, Trust and the Public Sphere, Society, Individuals and Groups, The necessary transformations of Civil Sphere in the name of Civility

Reference

Plato, Republic. trans. G. M. A. Grube, revised C. D. C. Reeve. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004 (Book III, IV)Aristotle302222s Politics, trans. C. D. C. Reeve. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998, (Book I and II)Kant, What is Enlightenment?https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/enlightenment.ht… Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments. NY: Dover Publications, 2006 (Part I, sections I and II, Part IV)Hegel, Philosophy of Right, trans T. M. Knox. London: Oxford University PressMarx, German Ideology, Communist Manifesto(https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/)Alexander, J. (2006). The Civil Sphere. New York: Oxford University Press.Chatterjee, P. (2004). The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World. NewYork: Columbia University Press.