PLS 3133 - Political Ideologies and the Crisis of Modernity

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course explores the crisis of the modern anthropocentric project as reflected in the rise of political ideological movements and the search for horizons of meaning following its breakdown. The course then proceeds to the analysis of both the nature and meaning of ideology and a spectrum of some of the most important ideologies that have emerged in the modern era, including liberalism, conservation, socialism, communism, fascism, anarchism, and nationalism. Lastly, the course explores the deeper existential issues involved with the rise, meaning and appeal of the totalitarian messianic message, trying to identify its relationship with the underlying premises of the modern world.

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