Theory of Citizenship and Human Rights in complex societies

Objectives

This curricular unit aims to give students in-depth perspectives on the issues surrounding citizenship and human rights, in complex societies and in a world that is simultaneously in disorder and global.

Program

1| Modern politics as scarcity management.

2 | Contradictions of Modernity and human rights. Theses that try to overcome these contradictions: the thoughts of H. Arendt, J. Habermas, C. Taylor, S. Benhabib, among others.

3 | Rationale for citizenship and human rights.

4 | Theories of worldliness.

5 | Citizenship and cosmopolitanism in a fragmentary era.

Teaching Methodologies

Periodic debates and preparation of an essay of a scientific nature, in addition to its public defense.

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