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SoSe 20: Radical Republicanism

Lillian Cicerchia

Comments

The aim of the course is to examine the crisis of liberalism today through the lens of a rival, neo-republican framework and to compare the strengths and weaknesses of the liberal and republican traditions by integrating analyses of paradigmatic forms of social group oppression rooted in class, race, and gender. close

Suggested reading

Katrina Forrester, "The Crisis of Liberalism" Isiah Berlin, "Two Concepts of Liberty" (1958) Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) Philip Pettit, Republicanism (1997) and "Are Markets Free?" (2006) Gerald Gaus, "Backwards into the Future: Neorepublicanism as a Post-socialist critique of market society" (2003) Elizabeth Anderson, "Equality and Freedom in the Workplace" (2015) Domenico Losurdo, Liberalism: A Counter-History (2011) Alex Gourevitch, From Slavery and the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century (2015) Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" Alan Coffee, “A Radical Revolution in Thought: Frederick Douglass on the Slave’s Perspective on Republican Freedom” (2020) Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body (1997) Bruno Leipold, “Marx’s Social Republic: Radical Republicanism and the Political Institutions of Socialism” (2020) close