Comparative Political Thought (eBook, ePUB)

Theorizing Practices
Redaktion: Freeden, Michael; Vincent, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited book introduces students and scholars to Comparative Political Thought. Featuring contributions from an excellent international line-up of esteemed scholars it examines some of the following issues:

• Is political theory 'Western-centric'?
• What can we learn from non-Western traditions of political thought?
• How do we compare different strands of national and regional political thought?
• Political thought in China, India, the Middle East and Latin America
• Islamic political thought
• Political thought in the wake of post-colonialism

This is a much-needed overview of this key emerging area and will be of interest to all tsudents of political theory, thought and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136206412
• Artikelnr.: 47893764

Autorenporträt

Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics, and the founder of the Centre for Political Ideologies, at the University of Oxford. Andrew Vincent is Honorary Professor at Cardiff University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Study of Comparative Political Thought Michael Freeden
and Andrew Vincent 2. On the historicity of 'the political': Rajaniti and
politics in modern Indian thought Sudipta Kaviraj 3. Latin American
approaches to 'the political' Laurence Whitehead 4. Communism,
Confucianism, and charisma: The political in modern China Rana Mitter 5.
Lineages of political society Partha Chatterjee 6. Acting and acting out:
Conceptions of political participation in the Middle East Charles Tripp 7.
Citizenship after orientalism: Genealogical investigations Engin F. Isin
8. Forms of participation in Muslim political heritage Abdulaziz Sachedina
9. On vernacular cosmopolitanisms, multiple modernities and the task of
comparative political thought Olivier Remaud 10. When is comparative
political thought (not) comparative? Chris Goto-Jones