Sem 1 - Understanding Political Theory

Critical Perspectives in Political Theory: Feminist and Postmodern. Feminist Perspective, Defining Feminism, Schools of feminism, Waves of feminism, Post-feminism, Personal is Political, Sex and Gender, Postmodern, Defining Postmodernism, Difference between Modernism and Postmodernism, Opposition of modernism, Foucault and Derrida, Main Postmodernist Thinkers, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Laclau and Mouffe, Critique of Postmodernism, Exercise Question.

Important! These notes are from old SOL study material Traditions of Political Theory: Liberal, Marxist, Anarchist, and Conservative Liberal Tradition History and Definition The liberal tradition of p...

Understanding the Terms: Political Science, Political Philosophy, and Political Theory What is political theory? Political theory is a subfield of political science that encompasses (or surrounds) pol...

What is politics? is the first unit of Understanding Political Theory in the B.A. (Hons.) Political Science Semester-I course at the University of Delhi. These bullet notes explain the meaning of politics, the definitions by Lasswell, Easton, and Crick, the difference between the political and the social, and how morality, the state, public policy, and law connect, with solved exam questions at the end.