Farah Godrej

Cosmopolitan Political Thought (eBook, PDF)

Method, Practice, Discipline

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Cosmopolitan Political Thought asks the question of what it might mean for the very practices of political theorizing to be cosmopolitan. It suggests that such a vision of political theory is intimately linked to methodological questions about what is commonly called comparative political theory--namely, the turn beyond ideas and modes of inquiry determined by traditional Western scholarship. It is therefore an argument for applying the idea of cosmopolitanism--understood in a particular way--to the discipline of political theory itself. As Farah Godrej argues, there are four crucial components of this cosmopolitan intervention: the texts under analysis, the methods for interpreting non-Western texts and ideas, the application of these ideas across geographical and cultural boundaries, and the deconstruction of Eurocentrism. In order to be genuinely cosmopolitan, Godrej states, political theorists must reflect on their perspectives inside and outside various traditions and immerse themselves in foreign ideas, languages, histories, and cultures--ultimately relocating themselves within their disciplinary homes. The result will be a serious challenge to accepted solutions to political life.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199782147
• Artikelnr.: 38135540

Autorenporträt

Farah Godrej is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Chapter One:
* Cosmopolitanism, Comparative Political Theory and Civilizational
Alterity
* Chapter Two:
* Canons, Traditions and Cosmopolitanism: Choosing the "Units " of
Analysis
* Chapter Three:
* Interpreting the Other: the Hermeneutics of Comparative Political
Thought
* Chapter Four:
* "Other " Texts, Our Contexts: Western Problems and Non-Western
Solutions
* Chapter Five:
* Destabilizing Eurocentrism and Reframing Political Inquiry
* Chapter Six:
* Toward a PostEurocentric Paradigm in a Cosmopolitan Political Thought
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index