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Phil 3751: Political Philosophy
Barnard College, Spring 2026
MW 2:40–3:55pm, classroom TBA, CourseWorks

Instructor: Ding (my pronouns are they/them and she/her)
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Office: Milbank Hall 326B
Office hours: MW 1:30–2:30pm and by appointment

GTA: Sara Wexler
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Office: Philosophy Hall 722
Office hours: TBA

Course Description

How should we live together? This course considers and critiques received answers to this question from the history of Western philosophy. We will spend the first half of the semester working our way through the development of modern political philosophy as a field. We will then take a deep dive into the political critiques that emerged from the civil rights, anti-war, women’s liberation, and gay rights movements of the 1960s, which are being rediscovered and recentered in political philosophy today.

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