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Instructors: Dr. Colin Negenborn; Prof. Dr. Peter Niesen
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
English
Min. | Max. participants:
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More information:
Second lecturer: Dr. Colin von Negenborn.
Comments/contents:
Ecological and environmental issues have come to the forefront of theories of economic and political decision-making in recent decades. This seminar contrasts classical and new approaches from economics, politics and political philosophy. A special focus will be on recent conceptions of the political domination of nature, on conceptions of sustainability, and on animal politics.
Learning objectives:
Clarification of concepts and conceptions, understanding and construction of normative argument, application to questions of public policy.
Didactic concept:
Details of the syllabus will be presented in the first meeting.
Literature:
Introductory reading (for files see below)
Donaldson, Sue & Will Kymlicka, Zoopolis. A Political Theory of Animal Rights. Oxford: OUP 2011.
Krause, Sharon, Environmental Domination. Political Theory, Vol 48, Issue 4, 2020
Ott, Konrad, Critical Theory and the Legacy of Environmental Ethics. MS 2019
Additional examination information:
To be admitted to the final exam, students are required to complete the following coursework:
- weekly preparation of texts, with one question or statement per session to OpenOlat (10 uploads each),
- participation in seminar discussion,
- one position paper,
- presentation and defense of position paper in class.
A position paper is a 1000 word essay answering one of the session's guiding questions.The final exam is a term paper (4000 words) due on March 15, 2023. .
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