Institute of Political Science SAS
Topic
Importance of political philosophy 17th to 19th centuries for contemporary
PhD. program
3.1.6 Political Science
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Norbert Kmeť, CSc.
Contact:
Receiving school
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts
Annotation
Selected personalities of (classical) political philosophy (e.g. Charles de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Federalist-Papers, Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Paine and others) and their relevance for the present and their reflection in real political life and for modern political science and theory. The influence of 17th-19th century political philosophy on Slovak political thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. The reception of 17th-19th century political philosophy in Slovakia in the 19th and 20th centuries.