Unit-1 Conventional Understanding Of The Political (original) (raw)

In the course MWG-001, in Block I, Unit 1,2,3 and 4 we have already studied about the feminist discourse of 19 and 20 centuries, the emergence of the idea of the political and so on. In this Unit, our attempts will be to investigate the historical and contextual underpinnings of the notion of the political. Broadly, it tries to understand and examine the tradition of western political theory. It also examines the categories of state, individual and citizenship. We start with an introduction to the notion of the political that is ingrained within Greek thought. We will then shift to the medieval political thought that linked the political to notions of power and force and detached itself from the realm of ethics. The Unit will then provide debates on the modern understanding of the political and conclude with the feminist departure from these readings.