Deskripsi Mata Kuliah

Mata kuliah ini mengeksplorasi tema utama, konsep, serta prinsip yang mendasari pemikiran sosial dan politik Amerika. Bahasan mencakup analisis tekstual literatur oleh penulis-penulis yang berpengaruh dalam pembentukan pemikiran sosial politik Amerika, dan observasi, interpretasi terhadap dinamika pemikiran Amerika kontemporer.

Dosen

1. Muhammad Fuad M.A. (M.F.)
2. Riani Emma Winter Inkiriwang M.A (R.I.)
3. David Ronald Tairas, M.M. (DRT)

Bahan Bacaan Utama

• ALLYN FIVES AND KEITH BREEN, Ed. PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT: Reflection in the Public Sphere. London: Springer Nature, 2016.
• Curti, Merle Eugene. 1957/1982 (Sixth printing, 2004). The Growth of American Thought. 3rd Ed. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
• Daniel T. Rodgers, AGE OF FRACTURE. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011.
• Engen, Abram van. 2020. How America Became “A Citu Upon a Hill.” Humanities, Winter 2020, Vol. 41, Number 1.
• Eeuwijk, Peter van & Zuzanna Angehrn. 2017. How to … Conduct a Focus Group Discussion (FGD): Methodological Manual. Ed. Amena Briët. Swiss TPH, Basel. November 2017.
• Hess, Andreas (Ed.). 2003. American Social and Political Thought: A Reader. New York: New York University Press
• Murphy, Paul. 2016. Classics Review: The Growth of American Thought Revisited. Society for U.S. Intellectual History. February, 2016
• Hobbes, Thomas. 1651/1991. Leviathan. UK: Penguin Classics
• Locke, John. 1690/1980. Second Treatise of Government. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing Company.
• Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer. 2019. The Ideas That Made America: A brief history. New York: Oxfored UP.
• Shea, Matthew. 2020. Hobbes, Locke, and the Social Contract. American Battlefield Trust.