NPTEL : NOC:Introduction to Political Theory (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Mithilesh Kumar Jha


Lecture 1 - General Outline and methods

Lecture 2 - Political theories and ideologies

Lecture 3 - Liberty: republican conception of freedom

Lecture 4 - Freedom as autonomy;Positive and negative liberty

Lecture 5 - Freedom as Swaraj, Free speech and hate speech

Lecture 6 - Introduction: Equity and egalitarianism

Lecture 7 - Equality of opportunity; preferential treatment

Lecture 8 - Luck Egalitarianism and its critiques; Equality and Liberty

Lecture 9 - Introduction and forms of rights

Lecture 10 - Conflicts between rights

Lecture 11 - Rights and Duties

Lecture 12 - Justice : A distributive concept

Lecture 13 - Justice : Procedural and Substantive; Justice as fairness

Lecture 14 - Justice : Capability approach; libertarian, communitarian conception of Justice

Lecture 15 - Justice : Feminist conceptions of justice; Global justice

Lecture 16 - Introduction to Power and authority

Lecture 17 - Power, legitimacy and hegemony

Lecture 18 - Power and knowledge; different conceptions of power

Lecture 19 - Introduction and different conceptions of state and sovereignty

Lecture 20 - Modern nation state; liberal, Marxist and feminist conceptions of state

Lecture 21 - State and governmentality

Lecture 22 - Introduction: Procedural and Substantive Democracy

Lecture 23 - Various models of democracy

Lecture 24 - Challenges and Limits of Democracy; Free press and Democracy

Lecture 25 - Citizenship: Subject and Citizen

Lecture 26 - T H Marshal and liberal conceptions of citizenship as legal and equal member

Lecture 27 - Muliticulturalism and Cosmopolitan Citizenship

Lecture 28 - Introduction; Doom and Gloom; Democracy and environmental crisis

Lecture 29 - Climate change and environmental justice

Lecture 30 - Revisiting some key themes and concepts