Comparative Political Thought

Theorizing Practices
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-63201-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Comparative Political Thought

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freeden, Michael

Vincent, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 andEmeritus Professorat theUniversity ofSheffield.