PHIL 41815 Political Philosophy: Hume, Rousseau, the 1844 Marx
Kant is a watershed in political philosophy (as he is everywhere). This often means that earlier work gets read as “pre-Kantian.” In this course we will look at central texts by Hume and Rousseau in order to understand them in their own terms. We will connect these writers to another non-Kantian, the early Marx. The goal is to find, develop and assess ways of thinking of the tasks of political philosophy that do not presuppose a Kantian framework.