Subject(s): political History -- Democratic citizenship -- Thomas Jefferson and the education of the citizen -- Democratic citizenship revisited -- Morality and education -- Gandhi on freedom -- Michael Oakeshott's contribution to contemporary political thought -- Derrida and friendship -- Hannah Arendt on revolution -- Socialism and Marxism -- Ecology and carnival -- Social theory : M.M Bakhtin -- Legitimacy and post-modern condition , Political thoughts of Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Ethical challenges of post-modernism -- Political theory of human needs -- Post modern politics and the battle for the future