• Enabling the students to understand the process of developments having led to ‘modern’ contemporary states and societies
• Enabling the students to understand the all-intogetherness between thinking, philosophy, theory and ideology
• Enabling the students to understand the relation between the social careers of political currents and the political currents themselves
• Enabling the students to understand interrelations between historico-social conditions and forms of political thinking

Having the above mentioned objectives in mind the students should be enabled to ‘read between the lines’ rather than to make solely pure textual readings