具体描述
Political theory is widely seen in India as an esoteric inquiry unrelated to social and political practice and largely irrelevant to the urgent or enduring problems of our times. Contrary to this view, Rajeev Bhargava argues that it emerges from practices and has the potential to return to them-to stabilize, endorse, or challenge them. In this book, he explains the constitutive features of political theory and the pivotal role it can play in modern, pluralist societies.
Bhargava elucidates the conceptual structure of secularism, multiculturalism, and socialism, identifying which forms of each of these are worth defending and why. He shows how politico-moral reasoning can shape appropriate responses to the grave injustice of states and communities-colonialism, civil wars, massacres, acts of terrorism, and denials of freedom of expression. He opposes naive articulations of modernity and tradition and claims that some types of deeply religious and secular persons can come together against dangerously simple-minded believers and unbelievers. He also explores deeper issues in the philosophy of social science-individualism, ethnocentrism, teleology, social ontology, and the object-like presence of social meanings.
作者简介
Rajeev Bhargava is Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.
目录信息
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
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