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- Introduction to Politics
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- University Of Cape Town (UCT)
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POLITICS 1001F Notesmodern POL1004F
I. 2023/02/21
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Political science we will be discussing is mainstream political science. How western
political science understands itself.
What are things political science having unable to realize of
The problem of political science has a birthplace and a birth date- the 16 th century
and Europe.
Because of its origin in western society, its geography of knowledge is very specific.
Western political science has never been concerned about the whole world. It was
concerned about the west.
Political science is unable to recognize injustice about blacks as it has always been
concerned about the West.
The category of es political science has evolved due to the western context. Many of
these categories fall short outside of Europe. (Failure of the meaning)
Racism- the act of racism and being disrespectful. Racism makes it possible and gives
it meaning. The conditions and meaning of ideas that construct a structural position
for blacks and whites are what make racism.
Racism is a structural disadvantage for black people and a structural advantage for
white people.
Black consciousness represents the most coherent response to racism as a response.
Theory of the modern state is a social contract of our society and how we have
agreed to a social contract.
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,POLITICS 1001F Notes
Romantic naturalism is a tradition of writing prevalent in Europe in the Victorian age.
People writing in novels (travel logs). They were reporting the reality in Africa and
the non-western world. They created at times imaginary places.
A discipline is a systematic body of knowledge with its fathers and subject matters. It
must have its methodology.
Core (master subfield) of political science is comparative politics as it makes political
science scientific. it enables political science to reach conclusions that are valid
across space and time.
Methodology of comparative politics, the substantive part of comparative politics are
substantial parts of comparative politics.
Racism traveled the world on the back of capital, reason, and rationality. Racism is a
set of ideas about the world.
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Modern consciousness and order of knowledge
Discipline of political science is one of many other modern disciplinary
knowledge including philosophy.
Order of knowledge- is what makes it possible for political science to
make sense across all boards.
Modern consciousness is universal. There is a transformation in the way
we give to the world, respective to the degree you have studied, due to
modern consciousness, you take things as they are given. Whatever you
do, you must have a reason.
In other parts of the world (Europe), modern consciousness comes
naturally but in Africa, it comes in the form of colonialism.
Being a modern person is not just having the internet, but it is totality. It
is that your understanding of space becomes the same as the person in
Kairo or America.
Once the meaning of totality emerges everything acquires a new
meaning.
Problem with modern knowledge is that it displays itself as a continuous
narrative – this narrative is a retrospective creation of western
scholars( modernity)
Everything about us(humans) as the same. It is in the consciousness of
people that we respond in similar ways.
Modern meaning totality
The meaning of totality is all-encompassing. It gives meaning to
everything in the world. How we feel etc.
Concept of time has not always existed. The time of the clock is a recent
creation. It’s (time) a modern creation.
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