UCSD DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
210B: SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT II
MACHIAVELLI TO ROUSSEAU
WINTER 2004
F. Forman-Barzilai
2-3868
Office hours: Monday 9-11, or
by appt.
The POLI 210 seminars (A-D)
are designed to prepare graduate students for the field examination in political
theory. 210B will provide an intensive
introduction to European political thought from Machiavelli to Rousseau,
focusing primarily on original texts, and providing some exposure to important
secondary materials on the period.
Requirements:
Attendance and participation
are essential. Each week, two or three
students (depending on enrollment) will be responsible for guiding us through
the week’s assigned readings, based upon study questions that are distributed
in advance. Each student (including auditors)
can expect to do this two or three times during the term.
Written assignments will
consist of three 4-6 page papers, each due on the day that the subject/text is
being discussed. Two of these papers
must be completed by the 8th week. You
are encouraged, but not required, to write papers during your “on” weeks.
Under the “secondary texts”
lists for each week, texts appearing above the solid line will be discussed in
seminar. Texts below the line are
recommended as you write your papers or pursue further research on individual
authors, themes or periods. They are, of
course, barely representative of the vast perspectives and literatures on the
various subjects surveyed in this seminar.
You are welcome and encouraged to pursue alternative directions.
For Purchase:
Machiavelli, Selected
Political Writings, ed. Wootton (Hackett)
Hobbes, Leviathan, ed.
Macpherson (Penguin)
Locke, Two Treatises of
Government, ed. Laslett (
Montesquieu, Selected
Political Writings, ed. Richter (Hackett)
Rousseau, The Basic
Political Writings, ed. Cress (Hackett)
Rousseau, Politics and the
Arts, ed. Bloom (Cornell)
Hume, An Enquiry Concerning
the Principles of Morals (Hackett)
Smith, An Inquiry into the
Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , ed. Dickey (Hackett)
Smith, Theory of Moral
Sentiments, eds. Raphael and Macfie (
Texts marked with an asterisk
(*) are available for copying in the “210B folder” in the graduate student
lounge.
Week One: Introduction, administration
Week Two: Niccoló Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Letter to Francesco
Vettori (1513)
The Prince (1513)
The Discourses (1518-9)
Secondary Texts
Mary Dietz, “Trapping the
Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception,” American Political Science
Review 80 (1986): 777-99.*
Albert Rabil, Jr., “The
significance of “civic humanism” in the interpretation of the Italian
Renaissance” in Renaissance Humanism: Foundations, Forms, and Legacy,
vol. 1, ed. Albert J. Rabil, Jr. pp. 141-174.
Penn, 1988.*
Quentin Skinner, "The
Republican Ideal of Political
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Hans Baron, In Search of
Florentine Civic Humanism: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern
Thought, 2 vols.
Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner
and Maurizio Viroli, eds. Machiavelli and Republicanism.
Hannah Pitkin, Fortune is
a Woman.
J.G.A. Pocock, The
Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican
Tradition.
Quentin Skinner, Machiavelli,
Leo Strauss, Thoughts on
Machiavelli, Free Press, 1958.
Week Four: Montaigne (1533-1592), Hobbes (1588-1679)
Sextus Empiricus, Outlines, selections*
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, “Of Custom,” and “Of Cannibals.”*
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Parts I, II
Secondary Texts
Quentin Skinner, “The Ideological Context of Hobbes’ Political
Thought,” Historical Journal 9, 3 (1966): 286-317.*
Richard Tuck, "Grotius, Carneades and Hobbes." Grotiana
4 (1983): 43-62.*
Sheldon S . Wolin, “Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism” in Thomas
Hobbes and Political Theory, ed. Mary G. Dietz,
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Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes, “Intro.” to Sextus
Empricus, Outlines of Scepticism,
Peter Burke, Montaigne.
Mary Dietz, ed. Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory.
Michael Oakeshott, Hobbes on Civil Association.
G.A.J. Rogers and Alan Ryan, eds. Perspectives on Thomas
Hobbes,
Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of
Hobbes,
Jean Starobinski, Montaigne in Motion, trans. Arthur
Goldhammer.
Leo Strauss, “On the Spirit of Hobbes’ Political Philosophy,” La
Revue Internationale de Philosophie IV, 14 (1950): 405-31.
Richard Tuck, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and
Development.
Richard Tuck, Hobbes,
Richard Tuck, Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651.
Related primary texts
The Complete Essays of Montaigne, trans. Donald Frame, Stanford, 1965.
Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace, trans.
Francis W. Kelsey,
Hobbes, On the Citizen, eds. Tuck and Silverthorne,
Hobbes, Behemoth; or The Long Parliament (completed
1668; pub. 1682) ed. Holmes Chicago, 1990.
Week Five: John Locke (1632-1704)
Second Treatise of
Government
Secondary Texts
John Dunn, “‘Trust’ in the Politics of John Locke” in Rethinking
Modern Political Theory,
C.B. Macpherson, “The Social Bearing of Locke’s
Political Theory,” The Western Political Quarterly, VII (1954): 1-22.*
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Richard Ashcraft, Locke’s Two Treatises of
Government,
John Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke: An
Historical Account of the Argument of the ‘Two Treatises of Government’.
John Dunn, Locke,
Don Herzog, Happy
Slaves. A Critique of Consent Theory,
C.B. Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive
Individualism.
John Marshall, John Locke: Resistance, Religion and
Responsibility.
James Tully, An Approach to Political Philosophy:
Locke in Contexts.
Related primary texts
Sir Robert Filmer, Patriarcha (1680), ed.
Johann P. Sommerville,
Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(1693) , ed. I.C. Tipton,
Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689),
Promethius, 1994.
Samuel Pufendorf, On the Law of Nature and Nations
(1688), trans. Oldfather and Oldfather, Oxford, 1934; The Law Book Exchange
(Forthcoming, 8 vols., 2004).
Samuel Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen
(1673), ed. James Tully.
Week Six:
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Spirit of the Laws (1748-57), Introduction and Preface, Books 1-3, 5, 11
Persian Letters (1721), Letters X-XIV (pp. 55-62), Seraglio selections (pp.
64-83)
Secondary Texts
Allessandro S. Crisafulli, “Montesquieu’s Story of the
Troglodytes” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America,
1937.*
Judith N. Shklar, Montesquieu and the new
republicanism” in Machiavelli and Republicanism,, ed. Gisela Bock,
Quentin Skinner and Maurizio Viroli.
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Louis Althusser, Politics and History: Montesquieu,
Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, trans. Ben Brewster. 1959;
Isaiah
Emile Durkheim, Montesquieu and Rousseau:
Forerunners of Sociology,
Mark Hulliung, Montesquieu and the Old Regime,
Bernard Manin, "Montesquieu," in A
Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, eds. François Furet and Mona
Ozouf, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Belknap, 1989, pp. 728-41.
Thomas Pangle, Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism:
A Commentary on Spirit of the Laws.
Robert Shackleton, Montesquieu,
Judith Shklar, Montesquieu,
Related primary texts
Montesquieu, Considerations on the Causes of the
Roman’s Greatness and Decline (1734), trans. David Lowenthal, Hackett,
1999.
Giambattista Vico, The First New Science
(1744), trans. Leon Pompa,
Week Seven: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (First Discourse; 1750)
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Second Discourse; 1755)
Secondary Texts
Leo Strauss, “On The Intention of Rousseau” Social
Research 14 (1947): 455-87.*
Robert Wokler, “Human Nature and Civil Society” in Rousseau,
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Ernst Cassirer, The Question of Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, ed. and trans. Peter Gay (1932) Yale, 1989.
John Charvet, The Social Problem in the Philosophy
of Rousseau.
Maurice Cranston’s three volume biography: Jean-Jacques:
The Early Life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1754, (
Robert Derathé, Rousseau et la science politique de
son temps.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “The Emergence of Contextualism
in Rousseau’s Political Thought: The Case of Parisian Theatre in the Lettre
à d’Alembert” History of Political Thought XXIV, 3 (Autumn 2003):
435-63.
Roger Masters, The Political Philosophy of Rousseau.
Patrick Riley, The General Will Before
Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic.
Helena Rosenblatt, Rousseau and
Judith Shklar, Men and Citizens: A study of
Rousseau's social theory.
Jean Starobinski, Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
Transparency and Obstruction. (
Tracy Strong, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics
of the Ordinary, Sage, 1994.
Robert Wokler, The Social Thought of Jean-Jacques
Rousseau,
Robert Wokler, Rousseau,
Robert Wokler, ed. Rousseau and
Related primary texts
Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew (1760s), trans.
Jacquees Barzun and Ralph H. Bowen, Macmillan, 1976.
Denis Diderot, Political Writings, trans. David
Williams,
Denis Diderot, Jean D’Alembert, et al., Encyclopédie
(1751-72). Especially, Jean d’Alembert, Preliminary
Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, (1751) trans. Richard N. Schwab,
Chicago, 1995.
Marquis de Sade, Justine, Philosophy in the
Bedroom, and Other Writings (1797-1800), trans. Austryn Wainhouse and
Richard Seaver, Grove Press, 1990.
Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Languages,
trans. Victor Gourevitch, Harper, 1990.
Rousseau, Discourse on Political Economy
(1755); trans. Donald A. Cress, Hackett, 1987.
Rousseau, Considerations on the Government of
Rousseau, Emile (1762); trans. Allan Bloom,
Voltaire (François-Marie Aroüet), Candide
(1764), trans. John Butt, Penguin, 1990.
Voltaire, Political Writings, eds. John Hope
Mason and Robert Wokler,
Week Eight: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Lettre à d’Alembert (1758)
On the Social Contract (1762)
Secondary Texts
Bernard Manin, "Rousseau," in A Critical
Dictionary of the French Revolution, eds. François Furet and Mona Ozouf,
trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Belknap Press, 1989, pp. 829-43.*
Judith N. Shklar, “Reading the Social Contract” (1979)
in Judith N. Shklar, Political Thought and Political Thinkers, ed.
Jean Starobinski “The Antidote in the Poison: The
Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau” in Jean Starobinski Blessings in Disguise;
or, The Morality of Evil, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard, 1993, 118-68.*
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see week seven.
Week Nine: Mandeville (1670-1733), Hume (1711-1776)
Bernard de Mandeville, “The Grumbling Hive” (1705),
An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue (1714)*
David Hume, Selections from Essays, Moral and
Political (1741-2): “Of the Original Contract,”* “Of Commerce,”* “Of
Refinement in the Arts,”* An
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
Secondary Texts
Laurence Dickey, "Pride, Hypocrisy and Civility in
Mandeville's Social and Historical Theory." Critical Review (Summer
1990): 387-431.*
John Dunn, “From applied theology to social analysis:
the break between John Locke and the Scottish Enlightenment” in John Dunn, Rethinking
Modern Political Theory,
J.G.A. Pocock, “Virtues, Rights and Manners,” in J.G.A
Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and
History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, 1985, pp. 37-50.*
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Dario Castiglione,
"Mandeville Moralized," Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi,
XVII (1983): 239-90.
Duncan Forbes, Hume's Political Philosophy.
Knud Haakonssen, The Science of a Legislator: The
Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith.
Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions and the
Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph.
Istvan Hont, “Free Trade and the Limits to National
Politics” in The Economic Limits to Modern Politics, ed. John Dunn,
E.J. Hundert, The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard
Mandeville and the Discovery of Society.
Terence Hutchison, Before Adam Smith: The Emergence
of Political Economy, 1662-1776.
M.M. Goldsmith, Private Vices, Public Benefits.
Arthur O. Lovejoy, Reflections on Human Nature,
Johns
Jacob Viner, “Introduction to Bernard Mandeville, A
Letter to Dion (1732)” in Jacob Viner, Essays on th Intellectual History
of Economics,
Related primary texts
Joseph Butler, Five Sermons (1726), ed. Stephen
L. Darwall, Hackett, 1983.
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), ed.
L.E. Selby-Bigge, rev. Peter Nidditch, Oxford, 1978.
Hume, Essays, Moral and Political
(1741-2). See Essays, ed. Eugene
F. Miller,
Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
(1748), ed. L.E. Selby-Bigge, rev. Peter Nidditch, Oxford, 1975.
Francis Hutcheson, Illustrations on the Moral Sense,
ed. Bernard Peach,
Mandeville, A Letter to Dion (1732), intro.
Jacob Viner,
Week Ten:
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Wealth of Nations (1776), selections:
Book I, chs. 1-8 (pp. 3-49)
Book II, Intro, chs. 1-3 (pp. 49-83)
Book III (pp. 83-116)
Book IV ch. 1 (pp. 117-127)
Book V, ch. 1 (pp. 166-205)
Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759-1790), selections:
Part I, Section I, chs. 1-3 (pp. 9-19); Section III,
chs. 2-3 (pp. 50-66)
Part II, Section II, chs. 1-3 (pp. 78-91)
Part III, ch. 1 (pp. 109-113); ch. 3 (pp. 134-56)
Part IV, entire (pp. 179-93)
Part VI, Section II, ch. 4 (pp. 306-14); Section III,
ch. 1 (pp. 315-7)
Secondary Texts
Lucio Colletti, "Mandeville, Rousseau and
Smith" in Lucio Colletti, From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology
and Society, trans. John Merrington and Judith White, New York, 1972, pp.
195-216.*
Stephen Holmes, "The Secret History of
Self-Interest." In Beyond Self-Interest, ed. Jane J. Mansbridge,
D.D. Raphael, "Hume and Adam Smith on Justice and
Utility." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society LXXIII (1972/3):
87-103.*
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Joseph Cropsey. Polity and Economy: An
Interpretation of the Principles of the Principles of Adam Smith.
Laurence Dickey, "Historicizing the 'Adam Smith
Problem': Conceptual, Historiographical, and Textual Issues." Journal
of Modern History 58 (September 1986): 579-609.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Adam Smith as Globalization
Theorist” Critical Review 14, 4 (2002): 391-419.
Charles L. Griswold, Adam Smith and the Virtues of
Enlightenment.
Knud, Haakonssen, The Science of a Legislator: The
Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith.
Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff, eds. Wealth and
Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment,
Istvan Hont, "The language of sociability and
commerce: Samuel Pufendorf and the theoretical foundations of the 'Four-Stages
Theory.'" In The Languages of Political Theory in Early Modern Europe,
ed. Anthony Pagden,
Michael Ignatieff, "Smith, Rousseau and the
D.D. Raphael, Adam Smith.
Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith,
Condorcet, and the Enlightenment, Harvard, 2001.
Michael J. Shapiro, Reading "Adam Smith":
Desire, History and Value, Sage, 1993.
Jacob Viner, Essays on the Intellectual History of
Economics,
Donald Winch, Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in
Historiographic Revision.
Related primary texts
Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil
Society (1767), ed. Oz-Salzburger,
Smith, Lectures on Jurisprudence, eds. Meek,
Raphael, and Stein,
210B
General Secondary Texts
Raymond Aron, Main Currents in Sociological Thought,
trans. Howard and Weaver,
Isaiah
Christopher J. Berry, Social Theory of the Scottish
Enlightenment, Edinburgh, 1997.
Stephen Buckle, Natural Law and the Theory of
Property, Grotius to Hume,
Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment.
Translated by Fritz C.A. Koelln and James P. Pettegrove.
William E. Connolly, Political Theory &
Modernity, Cornell, 1993.
Louis Dumont, From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis
and Triumph of Economic Ideology,
Knud Haakonssen, Natural Law and Moral Philosophy:
From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment.
Paul Hazard, European
Thought in the Eighteenth Century: From Montesquieu to Lessing.
Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
(1944), trans. John Cumming,
Nannerl O. Keohane, Philosophy and the State in
Reinhart Koselleck, Critique and Crisis:
Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society. 1959.
Alasdair MacIntyre,
After Virtue, Notre Dame, 1984.
Susan Moller Okin,
Women in Western Political Thought,
Anthony Pagden, ed. The Languages of Political
Theory in Early Modern Europe,
Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner, eds. Political
Discourse in Early Modern
John Plamenatz,
Man and Society. A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and
Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx.
J.G.A Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays
on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century.
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation,
Patrick Riley, Will and Political Legitimacy: A
Critical Exposition of Social Contract Theory in Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant,
and Hegel. Harvard, 1982.
J.B. Schneewind, ed. Moral Philosophy from
Montaigne to Kant, 2 vols.
J.B. Schneewind, The Invention of Autonomy, A
History of Modern Moral Philosophy,
Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern
Political Thought, 2 vols.
Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History,
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of
the Modern Identity, Harvard, 1989.
Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision: Continuity and
Innovation in Western Political Thought,
210B
Some general texts on (or in some cases, illustrating)
various methods and modes of political theory and the history of political
thought
Ashcraft, Richard, “On the Problem of Methodology and
the Nature of Political Theory,” Political Theory 3, 1 (1975).
Baker, Keith Michael, “Enlightenment and the Institution
of Society: Notes for a Conceptual History,” in Main Currents in Cultural
History: Ten Essays, eds. Melcking and Velema,
Ball, Terence, James Farr and Russell L. Hanson, eds. Political
Innovation and Conceptual Change,
Ball, Terence, “Discordant Voices: American histories
of political thought,” in The History of Political Thought in National
Context, eds. Dario Castiglione and Iain Hampsher-Monk, Cambridge, 2001,
pp. 107-33.
di Stefano, Christine and Nancy Hirschman, Revisioning
the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western
Political Theory,
Dunn, John.
“The Identity of the History of Ideas,” Philosophy 43 (April
11968): 85-104.
Dunn, John.
“The History of Political Theory,” in John Dunn, The History of
Political Theory and other essays,
Elster, Jon. “The Market and the Forum: Three
Varieties of Political Theory,” in Foundations of Social Choice Theory,
ed. Jon Elster,
Geuss, Raymond.
The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the
Gunnell, John. Political Theory: Tradition and
Interpretation,
Gunnell, John. The Descent of Political Theory: The
Genealogy of an American Vocation,
Herzog, Don. Without
Foundations: Justification in Political Theory, Cornell, 1985.
Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary Political Philosophy,
An Introduction,
LaCapra, Dominick. "Rethinking Intellectual
History and
Miller, David and Larry Seidentop, eds. The Nature
of Political Theory,
Miller, David, “The Resurgence of Political Theory,” Political
Studies XXXVIII, 421-437.
Pocock, J.G.A., “Languages and their Implications,” in
J.G.A. Pocock, Politics, Language and Time,
Richter, Melvin. “Begriffsgeschichte and the History
of Ideas,” Journal of the History of Ideas (1987): 247-63.
Ryan Alan, ed. The Philosophy of Social Explanation,
Shklar, Judith.
“Facing Up to Intellectual Pluralism,” in Political Theory and Social
Change, ed. David Spitz.
Shklar, Judith N., Ordinary Vices, Belknap,
1984.
Skinner, Quentin. "Meaning and understanding in
the history of ideas." History and Theory 8 (1969): 3-53.
Skinner, Quentin, ed. The Return of Grand Theory in
the Human Sciences,
Strauss, Leo.
“Persecution and the Art of Writing.”
In Persecution and the Art of Writing.
Thiele, Leslie Paul, Thinking Politics:
Perspectives in ancient, modern and postmodern political theory, Chatham
House, 2003.
Tuck, Richard, “The contribution of history,” in A
Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, eds. Goodin and Petit,
Blackwell, 1994, pp. 72-90.
Tully, James, ed.
Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics.
Vincent, Andrew, ed. Political Theory, tradition
& diversity.
White, Stephen, Postmodernism and Political Theory,
Wolin, Sheldon, “Political Theory as a Vocation” APSR 63 (December 1969): 1062-82.