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. The University sets this paper under Scheme III only, so your college may not run it.
Module 1: Modern State
- 1 Niccolo Machiavelli [1469-1527]
- 2 John Locke [1632-1704]
Module 2: Liberty and Pluralism
- 1 John Stuart Mill [1806-1878]
- 2 Harold Laski [1893-1950]
Module 3: Revolution and Hegemony
- 1 Karl Marx [1818-1883]
- 2 Antonio Gramsci [1891-1937]
Module 4: Democracy and Feminism
- 1 Hannah Arendt [1906-1975]
- 2 Judith Butler [1956-till date]
Text Books
- 1 Arendt, H. (1994). Hannah Arendt: critical essays. Suny Press.
- 2 Butler, Judith. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. Verso, 2004.
- 3 Butler, Judith, and Joan W. Scott, editors. Feminists Theorize the Political. Routledge, 1992.
- 4 Gauba O.P., Western Political Thought, Mayur Paperback, 2017.
- 5 Laski, Harold J. A Grammar of Politics. Routledge, 2016.
- 6 .Laski, Harold J. The State in Theory and Practice. Routledge, 2009
- 7 Weisman, T. (2013). Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx: On totalitarianism and the tradition of Western political thought. Lexington books.
Reference Books
- 1 Sreedathan G., Western Political Thought and Theories, Deep and Deep Publications PVT. LTD., 2006.