KAY644 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and SOCIAL HISTORY
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and SOCIAL HISTORY | KAY644 | 2nd Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Academic Staff | |||||
| Course objective | In this course, it is aimed to make a study on the basis of the presupposition that political philosophy texts and their conceptualizations develop on the basis of different historical contexts and material conditions. Within the framework of material-historical conditions related to the phenomenon of politics, spatially different formations become evident. These different formations can be discussed as they are or on the basis of temporal differentiations/appearances revealed by recontextualization within certain ideological-social filters. This will create versatility for the study/discussion of political philosophy. In this way, it is aimed to overcome the single-defined and single-perspective mechanical explanations of political philosophy, which is based on different time-space formations. Therefore, in this course, the appearances of political philosophy in different knowledge-ideological-social planes will be discussed. | |||||
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| Course Content | The different aspects of political philosophy on the basis of the way it is handled and the concreteness and/or reality of these views will be examined in this course. In this context, first of all, political thought and the period of the thinker/thinkers will be examined from a political and economic point of view. The thought and thinker/thinkers in question will be placed in this context. At this stage, the relationship between political thought/political philosophy and social reality will be tried to be established. It will also be discussed whether such a relationship can be established or not. Thus, the political questioning of thought and the thinker(s) will be able to be made by placing it on a certain concrete basis. In this context, political thoughts will not be considered as an absolute history of thought, but within the scope of their social content together with general political history and economic history. In addition, non-Western political philosophy, especially in Asia, will be examined, so that the phenomenon of politics and philosophy can be looked at from a multi-faceted perspective. | |||||
| References | Akbulut, Örsan Ö. (2011), "Siyaset Biliminin Siyaseti", Amme İdaresi Dergisi, C.44, S.4, Aralık, s. 1-32. Amin, Samir (1989), Eurocentrism, (Translated. R. Moore), Monthly Review Press, New York. Anievas, Alexander and Kerem Nişancıoğlu (2015), How the West Came to Rule-The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism-, Pluto Press, London. Croix, G.E.M. de Ste. (2013), The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arap Conquests, Deckworth. Foucault, Michel (1991), ?"Governmentality", (trans. R. Broidotti), (G. Burchell, C. Gordon and P. Miller eds.), The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, University of Chicago. Haldun, İbn (1977), Mukaddime-İbretler Kitabı, Haberler Divanı, (Çev. T. Dursun), Onur Yayınları, Ankara. Harvey, David (1989), The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Orgins of Cultural Changes, Blackwell. Harvey, David (2003), The New Imperialism, Oxford University. MacPherson, C.B. (1962), The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke, Clarendon. Patriquin, Larry (ed.) (2012), The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader, Brill, Leiden. Pocock, J.G.A. (2009), Political Thought and History: Essays on Theory and Method, Cambridge University Press. Skinner, Quentin (1998), The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Cambridge University. Taşağıl, Ahmet (2020), Hunlar-Bozkırların İlk İmparatorluğu, Yeditepe Yayınları, İstanbul. Taşağıl, Ahmet (2020), Türk Model Devleti Gök Türkler, Bilge Kültür Sanat, İstanbul. Togan, Zeki Velidi (2021), Asya Tarihi, İş Bankası Yayını, İstanbul. Uslu, Ateş (2021), Siyasal Düşüncelerin Toplumsal Tarihi Cilt 1-2-3, Yordam Kitap, İstanbul. Wood, Ellen Meiksins and Neal Wood (1997), A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism 1509-1688, New York University. Wood, Ellen Meiksins (1995), Democracy Against Capitalism-Renewing Historical Materialism-, Cambridge University. Wood, Ellen Meiksins (1996), "Modernity, Postmodernity or Capitalism", Monthly Review, July-August. Wood, Ellen Meiksins (1997) "What Is the Post-Modern Agenda?", In Defense of History-Marxism and the Post-Modern Agenda, E.M. Wood and John Bellamy Foster (ed), Monthly Review Press. Wood, Ellen Meiksins (2008), Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Verso. Wood, Ellen Meiksins (2012), Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment, Verso. Wood, Ellen Meiksins and Neal Wood (1978), Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Social Context, Oxford University Press. Wood, Neal (1983), The Politics of Locke's Philosophy: A Social Study of 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding', University of California Press. Wood, Neal (1988), Cicero's Social and Political Thought, University of California Press. Yalman, Galip (2009), Transition to Neoliberalism, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction |
| Week 2 | The Sociality of the Context of Political Philosophy (1) The Problem of Context-Wood Skinner Debate |
| Week 3 | The Sociality of the Context of Political Philosophy (2) The Problem of Content-Wood Croix Debate |
| Week 4 | Antiquity as a Slave Economy: Eleutheria and Universality in Athens and Rome |
| Week 5 | Politics in the Absence of the Imperium or the Political of Feudalism: Church, Property, and the Right to Judgement |
| Week 6 | Social Alliance Against Extra-Parliamentary Politics - Exploring the Materiality of the Political: The Putney Debate |
| Week 7 | Political Philosophy in Transformed Feudalism: The Validolid Debate |
| Week 8 | Peasants' Revolts and Protestantism as an Anti-Absolutist Political Movement Clique: Feudalism Trade Association |
| Week 9 | Hegemony in the Maritime Trade, or Grasping the Oranges with Grotius and Spinoza |
| Week 10 | Understanding Asia with China: From Confucian Virtue to Xin Ji Li |
| Week 11 | The Visibility of the Political in the Turkish-Mongolian Tradition or Khaganate and Kut |
| Week 12 | Islamic Political Thought in the Focus of Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Rust |
| Week 13 | The Relationship between Eurocentrism and Post-Colonialism in the Opposition of Sedentarism-Nomadic Pastoralism |
| Week 14 | The Concreteness of Post-Modernity or the Concrete Universality of the Particular |
| Week 15 | Preparation for the Final Exam |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 14 | 10 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation | 1 | 20 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 16 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 7 | 98 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 32 | 65 | 210 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. To acquire advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of specialization. To understand the interactions with other disciplines and analyze social structure and dynamics. | X | ||||
| 2. To develop skills for doing and planning research, and analyzing/evaluating data in the field of specialization. To find solutions to the problems faced during the research process. | X | ||||
| 3. To contribute to related literature by conducting a research independently or as a member of a research team. To do leadership and to have a vision. | X | ||||
| 4. To follow the scientific literature in the field of specialization. To evaluate the data by critical thinking and to be committed to lifelong learning. | X | ||||
| 5. To communicate effectively in oral and written base. To master a foreign language and to use computer and information technology effectively in the field of specialization. To share knowledge at scientific platforms with this oral and written communication skill. | X | ||||
| 6. To feel social responsibility. To have a capacity and awareness to contribute to the society. | X | ||||
| 7. To appreciate social, cultural, scientific, and ethical values while conducting studies in the field of specialization. To contribute to the solution of problems faced in this process in the work life. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest