This is a continuing course at undergraduate level that requires at least 30 Swedish higher education credits in political science or corresponding knowledge. 'Corresponding' includes studies in social sciences with extensive and distinct elements of political science. This course is taught only for exchange students.
This course consists of three parts. In the first part we focus on normative theories of distributive justice, such as utilitarianism, Rawls' liberal egalitarianism, and Nozick's libertarianism -as well as Marxism and post-Marxism. The second part concerns the balance between autonomy and tolerance within liberal theory, from the perspective of the state and the citizen respectively; how, for example, should the liberal state handle the increasingly heated issue of religious minorities and religion in the public sphere, and to what extent do citizens have a duty to vote and, in fact, vote well? The third part revolves around identity and recognition, with a focus on multiculturalism and feminism.
