Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, India, Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Oxford
University Press, 1995
K. Lee and Mills, The Economic Of Health In Developing Countries, Oxford University Press,
1983
Marmar Mukhopadhyay and Madhu Parhar (eds.) Education in India: Dynamics of
Development, Shipra Publications, 2007
K. Vijaya Kumar, Right to Education Act 2009: Its Implementation as to Social Development
in India, Akansha Publishers, 2012
Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze, Omnibus: Poverty and Famines, Hunger and Public Action,
India- Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Oxford University Press, 1998
Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions, Princeton
University Press, 2013
ReetikaKhera, ‘Rural Poverty and Public Distribution System’, Economic and Political Weekly,
Vol-XLVIII, No.45-46, Nov 2013
Pradeep Chaturvedi, Women and Food Security: Role Of Panchayats, Concept Publishing
House, 2002
Bidyut Mohanty, “Women, Right to Food and Role of Panchayats”, Mainstream, Vol. LII, No.
42, October 11, 2014
D. Crowther, Corporate Social Responsibility, Deep and Deep Publishers, 2008
Sanjay K. Agarwal, Corporate Social Responsibility in India, Sage Publishers, 2008
Pushpa Sundar, Business & Community: The Story of Corporate Social Responsibility in India,
New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2013.
Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the
Examination Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.
GENERIC ELECTIVES (GE-6): Western Political Philosophy
Credit distribution, Eligibility and Pre-requisites of the Course
Course Credits Credit distribution of the Eligibility Pre-
title & course criteria requisite
Code Lecture Tutorial Practical/ of the
Practice course
Western 4 3 1 0 12 Pass NIL
Political
Philosophy
GE-6
Learning Objectives
This course familiarizes the students with the manner in which the political questions are
posed and answered normatively by select thinkers. The aim is to introduce to the students
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the questions, ideas and values of political philosophy addressed by political thinkers and
juxtapose the same to contemporary political thinking.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course students would be able to:
• Understand how to read and decode the classics and use them to engage
contemporary socio-political issues.
• Connect with historically written texts and their interpretations.
• Clearly present their own arguments and thoughts about contemporary issues and
develop ideas to engage with the latter.
SYLLABUS OF GE-6
UNIT – I (15 Hours)
Classical Political Philosophy
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
UNIT – II (30 Hours)
Renaissance and Modern Political Philosophy
a) Machiavelli
b) Hobbes
c) Rousseau
d) Mill
e) Marx
Essential/recommended readings
Unit 1
R. Kraut (1996) ‘Introduction to the study of Plato’, in R. Kraut (ed.) The Cambridge
Companion to Plato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-50.
D. Boucher and P. Kelly (eds) Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, pp. 62-80
A. Skoble and T. Machan (2007) Political Philosophy: Essential Selections. New Delhi:
Pearson Education pp. 53-64.
J. Barnes (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Q. Skinner (2000) Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
pp. 23-53
Unit 2
C. Macpherson (1962) The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke.
Oxford University Press.
D. Boucher and P. Kelly (eds) Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, pp. 207-224
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J. Coleman (2000) ‘Introduction’, in A History of Political Thought: From Ancient Greece to
Early Christianity, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
I. Hampsher-Monk (2001) A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers
from Hobbes to Marx, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the
Examination Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.
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