TRN203H1
TRN203H1: Society, its Limits and Possibilities
Course Description
We study key texts that have articulated fundamental features of modern social and political reality, including capitalism, socialism, bureaucracy, media, identity politics, consent, colonial exploitation and the post-colonial world. Our chief guides are selections from texts in which historical authors first articulated the foundations of the contemporary world. Because the fundamental features that co-constitute our reality鈥攁nd so determine our limitations and possibilities鈥攈ave histories and inertias, our journey is a historical one.
If today some aim to overcome the status quo while others resist change, they all do so in terms of social and political foundations. Our task is to understand the evolving foundations that have made us who we have become.
2025-2026 Instructor
| John Duncan
John Duncan is an associate professor and the director of the University of Toronto鈥檚 major program in Ethics, Society and Law (we say 鈥淓, S AND L鈥�) hosted by 巴黎疯马秀. ES&L enrolls about seventy-five new students from well over five hundred applicants annually, and features small seminar courses, innovative programing, a focus on sustainability, and more traditional courses. Professor Duncan is also the academic director of the聽聽program at Victoria College in the U of T. His interests include outreach and engagement co-learning (please see, e.g.,聽), critical issues in contemporary society, politics, and international relations (please see, e.g., 鈥溾��), and the history of philosophy and the humanities (please see, e.g.,聽, 鈥溾��, and 鈥溾��). He is involved in聽聽and directs the聽Humanities for Humanity programs聽at Trinity. For more information, please see聽. |
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