Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy of Leadership I 2 Credits Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Syllabus for Philosophy of Leadership - I 2 credits
The University sets this paper under Scheme III only, so your college may not run it.
Module 1: Theories of Leadership
- 1 Introduction to Leadership Philosophy, Trait and Behavioral leadership
- 2 Contingency leadership: Path goal and Situational leadership
- 3 Integrative leadership: Transformational and Servant leadership.
Module 2: Philosophers' Perspective on Leadership
- 1 Plato's concept of the philosophical leader, the reference to Philosopher-King (The Virtues of Philosophical Leadership)
- 2 Friedrich Nietzsche’s views on Leadership: Will to Power
- 3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's views on leadership.
Reading List
- 1 Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals Routledge Publications,1985
- 2 Deborah Satz “Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction and the Family” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2013 (on line https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminismfamily/)
- 3 Barrie Thorne “Feminist Rethinking of the Family: An Overview” Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions ed. Barrie Thorne and Marilyn Yalom Longman: New York and London, 1982
- 4 Simone de Beauvoir “Introduction” The Second Sex (a new translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier) Vintage: London, 2009
- 5 Jack Sawyer “On Male Liberation” in Feminism and Masculinities ed. Peter Murphy OUP, Oxford 2004
- 6 Todd Reeser, Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction chapter 1 John Beynon, Masculinities and Culture chapter 1
- 7 M.K. Gandhi. Trusteeship Navjeevan Publication, 1990
- 8 K. Kripalani All men are brothers, Chapter- Poverty in the midst of plenty- Navjeevan Publication 1960
- 9 Franz Fanon “The Fact of Blackness” Black Skin White Masks-Grove Press 1967
- 10 John Elster, An Introduction to Karl Marx chapter 3 and 7 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels A Manifesto of the Communist Party 1848 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
- 11 B.R. Ambedkar “Annihilation of Caste” in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Vol. 1. Bombay: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1979
- 12 B.R. Ambedkar “On the way to Goregaon” in The Essential Writings of B.R. Ambedkar ed. Valerian Rodrigues OUP, Oxford: 2002
- 13 “Who were the Shudras?” in The Essential Writings of B.R. Ambedkar ed. Valerian Rodrigues OUP, Oxford: 2002