Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Western Political Thought Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Syllabus for Western Political Thought
Part of this reading list is printed in Devanagari, which the University's own PDF does not release as reliable text. Those entries are not set here; they are in the document above, as she printed them.
Module 1: Modern State
- 1 Niccolo Machiavelli [1469-1527]
- 2 John Locke [1632-1704]
Module 2: Liberty and Justice
- 1 John Stuart Mill [1806-1878
- 2 John Rawls [1921-2002]
Module 3: Revolution and Hegemony
- 1 Karl Marx [1818-1883]
- 2 Antonio Gramsci [1891-1937]
Module 4: Democracy and Political Communication
- 1 Hannah Arendt [1906-1975]
- 2 Jürgen Habermas [1929-till date]
Reference Books
English
- 1 Gauba O.P., Western Political Thought, Mayur Paperback, 2017.
- 2 Sreedathan G., Western Political Thought and Theories, Deep and Deep Publications PVT. LTD., 2006.
- 3 Finlayson J. G., Habermas – A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005.