POLI384

Political Thought Across Boundaries

Critically engages different cultural, religious, and geographic traditions of political thought and questions about their contested boundaries. Main topics: overview of key traditions; exploration of emerging fields of comparative political inquiry; debates about how to compare and engage different traditions of political thinking; the significance of which thinkers, ideas, texts, and histories are conventionally discussed or not discussed in political theory; implications of engaging different political thought traditions for political theory as a whole.