GS201 Lecture Notes - Antonio Gramsci, Relativism, Edward Said

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Liberalism: moral equality of peasants, defending autonomy, ordering principal for society, marxism, changes with modernity- agricultural to industrial. E. g. ) labour conditions: clash of social classes, how political and social life is organized by economics, weberianism, an attempt to understand capitalism from a more holistic perspective, not just economic like cultural influences. Liberal perspective on state and society i: john lucke, kunt, state is created to defend the individual. Minimalist state controls very narrow functions: lucke universalism, rule of law, all are equal under law. Liberal perspective on state and society ii: cultural background influences our choices if this is taken away, your autonomy is lost, relativism respect diversity. Us war on terror our vision of who the taliban are, is constructed by. Western popular opinion: de-constructing race, gender, class, looking at how we got to have the views that we have how they were constructed.

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