UNIT I: REPUBLICANISM
Origins and Development
Republicanism and neorepublicanism
Central themes
Republicanism and democracy
Special Attention will be paid to the following Thinkers: P. Pettit, Q. Skinner, B. Barber.

UNIT II: COMMUNITARIANISM
Origins and Development
Central themes
Common Good
Liberalism, Communitarianism and Politics of Identity

Special Attention will be paid to the following Thinkers: M. Sandel, M. Walzer, Ch. Taylor, A. Etzioni

UNIT III: MULTICULTURALISM
Origins and Development
Central themes
Diversity, Identity
Federalism, Nationalism

Special Attention will be paid to the following Thinkers: W. Kymlicka, B. Parekh, A. Gagnon.

UNIT IV: FEMINISM
Origins and Development
Central themes
Liberal Feminism. Socialist Feminism. Radical Feminism

Special Attention will be paid to the following Thinkers: M. Wollstonecraft, F. Tristán, A. Phillips, Ch. Mouffe.


UNIT V: ECOLOGISM
Origins and Development
Central Themes
Ecopacifism
Ecosocialism

Special Attention will be paid to the following Thinkers: Lovelock, A. Dobson, M. Löwy.