Comparative Political Thought

Theorizing Practices

Michael Freeden, Andrew Vincent, Michael Freeden, Andrew Vincent

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136206412
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: the study of comparative political thought
• 1 On the historicity of ‘the political’: rajaniti and politics in modern Indian thought
• 2 Latin American approaches to ‘the political’
• 3 Communism, Confucianism, and charisma: the political in modern China
• 4 Lineages of political society
• 5 Acting and acting out: conceptions of political participation in the Middle East
• 6 Citizenship after orientalism: genealogical investigations
• 7 Forms of political participation in Muslim political heritage
• 8 On vernacular cosmopolitanisms, multiple modernities, and the task of comparative thought
• 9 When is comparative political thought (not) comparative? Dialogues, (dis)continuities, creativity, and radical difference in Heidegger and Nishida
• Bibliography
• Index