Leigh K. Jenco

Making the Political

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses the work of Zhang Shizhao, a famous Chinese thinker, to challenge democratic views about the origins of social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780521760607
• ISBN-10: 0521760607
• Artikelnr.: 29010857

Autorenporträt

Leigh K. Jenco (B.A., Bard College; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Chicago) is a lecturer at the London School of Economics. Before moving to the LSE, she taught at the National University of Singapore for four years, and for 2007-8 was appointed Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Political Theory Project, Brown University, Rhode Island. She is winner of the 2008 Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy, awarded by American Political Science Association, and has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory and the Journal of Asian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Making the political
2. Zhang Shizhao and his world
Part II. Founding: 3. The founding paradox
4. 'Rule by man' and 'rule by law'
5. Public, private, and the political
Part III. Action: 6. Self-awareness
7. The self-use of talent
8. Accommodation
Conclusion: a return to beginnings.