Fall/Winter Timetable

POL2021Y1Y L0101

Undergraduate Course Code: POL430Y1Y L0101

Comparative Studies in Jewish and Non-Jewish Political Thought

Themes

Piety and strife.

Texts

Thucydides’ War of the Athenians and the Peloponnesians; the Book of Judges; Rousseau’s Le Lévite d’Ephraim; commentaries on these.

Format and Requirements

Several essays and a take-home test. Class sessions will run for three hours and will focus on intensive interpretation and discussion of primary texts.