Political Theory

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Walter Kaufmann & RJ Hollingdale (New York: Vintage Books, 1989) [ISBN: 0-679-72462-1] Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Richard Philcox, (New York: Grove Press, 2004) [ISBN: 978-0-8021-4132-3] John Rawls, “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical” (Retrieve on JSTOR or from the following link: [http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/Philosophy%20167/Rawlsjusticeasfai rness.pdf] Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant (New York: Basic Books, 2002) [ISBN: 0-465-01754-1] hooks, bell, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (New York: Washington Square Press, 2004) [ISBN: 978-0-7434-5608-1] Shane Phelan, “Citizens and Strangers” in Sexual Strangers: Gays, Lesbians, and Dilemmas of Citizenship (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001) (Available on Blackboard) Butler, Judith, “Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality” inUndoing Gender (New York: Routledge, 2004) (Available on Blackboard) Anzaldúa, Gloria, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Third Edition. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 2007 Sokoloff, William W. 2017. Confrontational Citizenship: Reflections on Hatred, Rage, Revolution and Revolt. Albany: State University of New York Press. (I will make some of the chapters from my book available on Blackboard) assignment Final Essay: Final Essay: Drawing on the work Nietzsche, Fanon, Rawls, Dworkin, hooks, Butler, Phelan, Anzaldúa and Sokoloff, create and design an ideal political order (Students may not write a defense of the current American political system). Please be sure to provide reasons to back up your claim. Please be sure to refute counterarguments. You may only draw on the authors from this class to design your ideal political order. *Include as an appendix to this essay a self-evaluation statement where you state what grade you believe you deserve on this paper and why. Please address the following issues: Strengths of your paper; weaknesses of your paper; what you would like help with; why you were able to do the positive things you did; creativity and independent thought; argument; how you were able to refute counter-arguments; knowledge of reading material; grade. *Suggestions for the Final Essay: The key to this assignment is to be creative, take risks, and design a political order that in your view would be perfect or near perfect with the help of the authors we have read in this class. Creative, imaginative, and well-argued essays will be rewarded. Students may not write a defense of the U.S. political system.