Fall/Winter Timetable

POL484H1F L0201

Graduate Course Code: POL2026H1F L0201

Topics in Political Thought I

French Political Thought I

Themes

This course explores three key concepts (the state, social norms, the individual) in the development of the history of French political through the study of three canonical texts: Bodin’s Six Books of the Republic, Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws and Rousseau’s Confessions

Texts

Bodin On Sovereignty, Montesquieu Spirit of the Laws and Rousseau The Confessions

Format and Requirements

TBA

Prerequisites

POL200Y1 or POL200Y5 or (POLC70H3 & POLC71H3)