PLSC 338 - Twentieth Century Political Criticism

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An analysis of the literature of contemporary political criticism. Materials to be analyzed deal with critiques of bureaucratic sociopolitical structures, mechanisms and processes of political change, political atomization and alienation, and visions of alternative political futures. Specific works examined include samples from neo-Marxian, libertarian, elitist, neo-Freudian, behaviorist, humanist, existentialist, anarchist, and utopian and counter-utopian political evaluation and criticism. An attempt is made to use an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the contemporary political imagination. Not offered on a regular basis.

Prerequisite(s): PLSC 230 or permission of the instructor.