Indian Political Theory: Laying the Groundwork for Svaraj

ISBN-13: 9780367885458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Aakash Singh Rathore

Opis

This book puts forward a workable contemporary ideal of svaraj that is "thin", i.e. political, and free of metaphysical commitment. The author demonstrates that svaraj has not yet been achieved in Indian political theory. He argues that political theorists of Indian politics continue to work with categories and concepts alien to th

Spis treści

Introduction: Time for a New Orientalism?

Part One: What Political Theory is Meant to Do

1. The Thick and Thin of Svaraj

2. Political Theory and Comparative Political Theory

3. What is Indian Political Theory?

Part Two: The Inadequacy of Trans-Atlantic Political Theory

4. Theories of "Our" Condition: Habermas and the Post-Secular Turn

5. Theories of "Our" Oppression: Žižek and the Critique of Human Rights

6. Theories of "Our" Liberation: Rawls, Sen, and the Romance of Global Justice

7. An Unkindness of Theories: Trans-Atlantic Marxism, Post-Structuralism,

and Post-Colonial Ethnographies

Part Three: Preconditions for Svaraj

8. Tradition, Hybridity, Equality

9. Gandhi and Ambedkar

10. Dalit Svaraj

O autorze

Aakash Singh Rathore is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India and Director of the International Research Network for Religion and Democracy (www.irnrd.org). He is also an International Fellow of the Center for Ethics & Global Politics in Rome, Italy. His previous work includes Indian Political Thought: A Reader (co-edited with Silika Mohapatra, 2010), also published by Routledge.