Comparative Political Thought: Theorizing Practices

ISBN-13: 9780415632065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Michael Freeden

Opis

This edited book introduces students and scholars to comparative political thought. Featuring contributions from an international line-up of scholars, it examines what can we learn from non-Western traditions of political thought, how we compare different strands of national and regional political thought, and much more.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.