All books linked below in their entirety are in the public domain. See syllabus for updated information on the sections that we’re reading for class. All texts that are not linked below will be made available under fair use guidelines.
Political Communities
Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics
Hannah Arendt: Between Past and Future (available at Newman Library)
Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition (available at Newman Library)
Social Contract Theory
John Locke: Second Treatise of Government
Charles Mills: The Racial Contract (available at Newman Library)
Carole Patemen: The Sexual Contract (available at Newman Library)
Optional:
What is Justice?
John Rawls: A Theory of Justice (available at New York Public Library)
Annette Baier: The Need for More Than Justice
What is Freedom?
Isaiah Berlin: Two Concepts of Liberty
What is Equality?
Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
Catherine MacKinnon: Only Words
What is Oppression?
Marilyn Frye: Oppression (available at New York Public Library)
Iris Marion Young: Five Faces of Oppression (available at Newman Library)
Serene Khader: Why is Oppression Wrong?
Capitalism, Fascism, and Civil Disobedience
Karl Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (“Estranged Labor”)
Hannah Arendt: Personal Responsibility under Dictatorship
Herbert Marcuse: An Essay on Liberation (available at Newman Library)
Optional:
Walter Benjamin: Thesis on the Philosophy of History
Alternative Forms of Political Organization
Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx: Critique of the Gotha Program (available at Newman Library)
G.A. Cohen: Why Not Socialism? (available at Newman Library)
Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays
Robert Wolff: In Defense of Anarchism (available at Newman Library)
