Rajeev Bhargava

What Is Political Theory and Why Do We Need It?

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays raises and answers important questions on political theory - What is its relevance in our times? What is it meant to do? How is it different from other forms of enquiries? The author explores deeper issues in the philosophy of social science-individualism, ethnocentrism, teleology, social ontology, and the object-like presence of social meanings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 142mm x 216mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780198088394
• ISBN-10: 0198088396
• Artikelnr.: 59178392

Autorenporträt

Rajeev Bhargava is Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Publisher's Acknowledgements
I WHAT IS POLITICAL THEORY AND WHY DO WE NEED IT?
1. What is Political Theory?
2. Why do We Need Political Theory?
3. Is There an Indian Political Theory?;
II NORMATIVE FRAMEWORKS
4. Political Secularism
5. The Multicultural Framework
6. The Continuing Relevance of Socialism
III IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE
7. How Should We Respond to the Cultural Injustices of Colonialism?
8. Restoring Decency to Barbaric Societies
9. Ordinary Feelings, Extraordinary Events: Moral Complexity in 9/11
10. Literature, Censorship, and Democracy
IV MODERNITY AND IDENTITY
11. Religious and Secular Identities
12. Are there Alternative Modernities?
V PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
13. Holism and Individualism in History and Social Science
14. What Makes Something Social?
15. Teleology and Ethnocentrism in Social Science
16. 'Objective Significance' in Critical Social Theory
Index