Comparative political thought : theorizing practices /

Comparative political thought : theorizing practices / edited by Michael Freeden and Andrew Vincent. - Oxford ; New York : Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. - ix, 196 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in comparative political thought .

Index : p.195-196.

Bibliography : p. 181-194.

Introduction -- The study of comparative political thought -- On the historicity of "the political": Rajaniti and politics in modern Indian thought / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Latin American approaches to "the political" / Laurence Whitehead -- Communism, Confucianism, and charisma: the political in modern China / Rana Mitter -- Lineages of political society / Partha Chatterjee -- Acting and acting out: conceptions of political participation in the Middle East / Charles Tripp -- Citizenship after Orientalism / Engin F. Isin -- Forms of participation in Muslim political heritage / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- On vernacular cosmopolitanisms, multiple modernities and the task of comparative political thought / Olivier Remaud -- When is comparative political thought (not) comparative? dialogues, (dis)continuities, creativity, and radical difference in Heidegger and Nishida / Chris Goto-Jones.

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.

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Political Science--Philosophy.
Philosophy, Comparative.





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