What is political theory and why do we need it? / (Record no. 73963)

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Personal name Bhargava, Rajeev.
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Title What is political theory and why do we need it? /
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Extent xvi, 406 p. ;
Dimensions 23 cm.
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Series statement Oxford collected essays.
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Formatted contents note 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.
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Summary, etc 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.
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