COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE QUESTION OF THE AUTONOMY OF POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 6097 THE QUESTION OF THE AUTONOMY OF POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

PHILOSOPHY

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAKAN ÇÖREKCIOĞLU

Offered to

PHILOSOPHY

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to examine the shift in the concept of the political particularly with modernism, and then to explore the differences between politics and the other domains of human practice such as law, moral and economics in the light of contemporary political discussions

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to understand the concepts of politics and the political
2   to grasp the historical shift in political thought
3   To analyse the project revive the politics in the contemporary philosophy
4   to develop students skills of critical reading.
5   to employ the theoretical perspective to analyse the political philosophy texts

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: presentation of the lecture
2 Politics and the Political
3 The conceptionalizations of politics from Antiquity to modernism.
4 Devaluation of Politics in contemporary world
5 Politics in the republican tradition
6 The Political in the liberal tradition
7 The reconstruction of politics in contemporary political theory.
8 Midterm exam
9 Text analysis and presentation
10 Text analysis and presentation
11 Text analysis and presentation
12 Text analysis and presentation
13 Text analysis and presentation
14 Text analysis and presentation
15 Wrap-up
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Hannah Arendt, Insanlık Durumu, Iletişim Yayınları,
2. Ryan Alan, On Politics, Penguin, 2012
3. Schmitt, Carl, The Concept of the Political, University of Chicago Press, 2007
4. Çörekçioğlu, Hakan, Politika ve Yargı , Yargıya Felsefeyle Bakmak, ed. K. Gülenç, Ö. D. Kaya, Yapı Kredi Yay., 136-166, 2016.
5. Acreman, Stephen, Political Theory and the Enlarged Mentality, Routledge, 2017

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance is obligatory.
2. Any kind of plagiarism will be subject to disciplinary action.
3. Preparation to weekly lectures (reading the respective material) and contribution to in class discussion is obligatory.
4. Students prepare presentations about topics given by the instructor.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hakan.corekcioglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 8 96
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 161

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.155
LO.25
LO.35444
LO.45
LO.54555