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POLI-D515

Théories de la démocratie et des droits humains

academic year
2023-2024
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Justine LACROIX (Coordinator) and Elisabeth LEFORT

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

The general course starts from a perspective of the project of a theory of democracy and its difficulties, in connection with contemporary diagnoses of "crisis of democracy". It then presents the ideals of radical democracy (from Rousseau to Castoriadis), criticisms of democracy (from Bonald to Pareto and Schmitt), the question of the relationship between liberalism and democracy (from Constant to Hayek via Kelsen and Schumpeter), the idea of a "republican" beyond of liberal democracy (Arendt, Pettit).

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

To study the main currents in the theories of democracy, through a general presentation (J.Y. Pranchère) and the study of fundamental texts for contemporary debates (Justine Lacroix).

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures and study of texts.

Course notes

  • Université virtuelle

Other information

Contacts

jlacroix@ulb.ac.be
jypranchere@gmail.com

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french

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