TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Doctorate Of Science
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) develop capacity to evaluate critically the paths that the two main/rival traditions of modern political thought ?liberalism and socialism- have followed in their efforts to conceptualize the modern capitalist societies. 2) discuss the changing meanings of the notions of "power" and "resistance" especially after the Second World War. 3) understand the debate that some contemporary thinkers -like Zizek- have opened by rejecting Marx's claim that "they don't know it but they are doing it" and instead arguing that what rather describes today's world is "they know very well what they are doing, but still, they are doing it".
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	When it comes to the 20th century, the flow of history had accelerated to the extent never seen before. While major wars, advanced industrialization and capitalism have changed the face of the world swiftly, they had created both their alternative and monster: socialism and fascism. Then a question which Gramsci posed and later Frankfurt School scholars and Arendt thought over marked the first half of the century: why it was fascism that came about while a socialist revolution was being expected? The course will start with these thinkers' inquiry on this question. This question is actually part of the effort since ancient times to give a meaning to the world, try to understand how it should be, and to think about the nature of the bonds between people and their community. Especially after the Second World War, differences and the question of living together despite growing differences in continuously differentiating and complex societies; and the conceptualizations of power and authority and changing nature of struggle against these developments, have brought the rethinking of the meanings attached to concepts of democracy, democratic politics and democratic struggle concepts. The second part of the course, focus on these issues by analysing approaches of thinkers such as Rawls and Habermas, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, ?i?ek, Laclau, Mouffe and Butler.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction to the course, expectations from the students 2nd Week Gramsci 3rd Week Frankfurt School and Critical Theory 4th Week Arendt 5th Week Habermas 6th Week Rawls 7th Week Foucault 8th Week Mid-term exam 9th Week Deleuze and Guattari 10th Week Derrida 11th Week Zizek 12th Week Laclau and Mouffe 13th Week Butler 14th Week Overview
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Renate Holub, Antonio Gramsci Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism, London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Roger Simon, Gramsci?s Political Thought, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1991. Max Horkheimer, ?Traditional and Critical Theory? in Critical Theory: Selected Essays, pp: 188-244. Theodor W. Adorno, ?Art, Society and Aesthetics?, in Aesthetics Theory, 1-16. Walter Benjamin, ?Critique of Violence?, in One Way Street, pp. 132-154. Herbert Marcuse, ?Liberation of the Affluent Society,? and ?Reification of the Proletariat?, in Critical Theory and Society: A Reader, pp: 276-292. John Bokina and Timothy J. Lukes, Marcuse From the New Left to the Next Left, University Press of Kansas, 1994. David Held Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas, Introduction & Chp: 2. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 2nd edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Craig Calhoun (ed.) Habermas and the Public Sphere, MIT Press, 1999. Murat Özbank (ed.) Rawls-Habermas Tartışması: Neden Demokrasi? Nasıl İstikrar?, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2009. Joseph Losco and Leonard Williams (ed.) Political Theory Classic Writings, Contemporary Views, New York: St. Martin?s Press, 1992. Stephen Eric Bronner, Twentieth Century Political Theory, New York and London: Routledge, 1997. Saul Newman, From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power, Lexington Books, 2001. Slavoj ?i?ek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, London and New York: Verso, 1999. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, 2nd ed. London and New York: Verso, 2001. Chantal Mouffe, Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically, London and New York: Verso, 2013.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Assignment 1 40 Attendance 1 10 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 5 70 Preparation for Final exam 1 70 70 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 72 72 Homework 1 50 50 Total Workload 304 Total Workload / 30 10,13 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No