HISC 121 What Is Politics?

Examines the concept of politics, its anthropological assumptions, categories, and its crisis. It proposes to inquire into the concept of politics, justice, conflict and law in thinkers, such as Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, Fanon, and Gandhi.