Comparative Political Thought: Theorizing Practices

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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. Cover Comparative Political Thought: Theorizing practices Copyright Contents 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