Western Political Thought in Dialogue With Asia

by Shogimen, Takashi; Nederman, Cary J.; Black, Antony; Bowden, Brett; Buchan, Bruce; Chan, Joseph; Dallmayr, Fred; Lahoud, Nelly; Nederman, Cary J.; Nel, Philip; Parajape, Makarand; Parel, Anthony; Spencer, Vicki A.; Swale, Alistair; Zarrow, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780739123782
• ISBN10: 0739123785
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Given the rise of globalization and coinciding increase in cultural clashes among diverse nations, it has become eminently clear to scholars of political thought that there exists a critical gap in the knowledge of non-Western philosophies and how Western thought has been influenced by them. This gap has led to a severely diminished capacity of both state and nonstate actors to communicate effectively on a global scale. The political theorists, area scholars, and intellectual historians gathered here by Takashi Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman examine the exchange of political ideas between Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Comparative Approaches to Political Thought	p. 11
Comparative Political Theory: What Is It Good For?	p. 13
Toward a Global History of Political Thought	p. 25
Western Conversations with Asia	p. 43
Varieties of Dialogue: Dialogical Models of Intercultural Communication in Medieval Inter-religious Writings	p. 45
Asia and the Moral Geography of European Enlightenment Political Thought c. 1600-1800	p. 65
The Ebb and Flow of Peoples, Ideas, and Innovations in the River of Inter-civilizational Relations: Toward a Global History of Political Thought	p. 87
Viewing Islam through Enlightenment Eyes	p. 109
Dealing with Inequality: A Conversation with Islamic Economics	p. 135
Asian Dialogues with the West	p. 161
Islamic Responses to Europe at the Dawn of Colonialism	p. 163
From Political Thought in India to Indian Political Thought	p. 187
Indian Alternations: Aurobindo, Ambedkar and After	p. 209
Chinese Conceptions of the State during the Late Qing Dynasty (1860-1911)	p. 235
Is There a Confucian Perspective on Social Justice?	p. 261
Imagining the Body Politic: Metaphor and Political Language in Late Medieval Europe and Tokugawa Japan	p. 279
Meiji Intelligentsia's Riposte	p. 301
Further Readings	p. 315
Index	p. 321
Contributors	p. 327
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