The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources
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DOI: 10.1017/asr.2018.1
Abstract: Whether African independence came swiftly or slowly, and whether it was won, attained, or granted, continues to provoke stimulating debate among African political scientists, historians, and adherents of other scholarly disciplines and interdisciplinary spaces. There… read more here.
Keywords: independence anthology; thought african; political thought; independence ... See more keywords
‘How one shall govern a city’: the polyphony of urban political thought in the fourteenth-century duchy of Brabant
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DOI: 10.1017/s0963926818000731
Abstract: ABSTRACT: This article examines late medieval urban political thought. By means of an intertextual methodology that combines the efforts of continental scholars and English literary historians, it provides new insights into the political ideas that… read more here.
Keywords: fourteenth century; urban political; century duchy; political thought ... See more keywords
The Black American Jacobins: Revolution, Radical Abolition, and the Transnational Turn
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592716004151
Abstract: While scholars of African American political thought have done a remarkable job centering focus on black thinkers, they still largely frame their endeavor in reference to the geo-political boundaries of the U.S. nation-state, thereby ignoring… read more here.
Keywords: political thought; transnational turn; jacobins revolution; black american ... See more keywords
A Defense of Rule: Origins of Political Thought in Greece and India. By Stuart Gray. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 304p. $78.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592718001391
Abstract: This erudite book would ideally require a reviewer with knowledge of both classical Greek and Sanskrit. Possessing only the former, I focus on the Preface and Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2 on Homer and Hesiod,… read more here.
Keywords: political thought; book; vedic texts; stuart gray ... See more keywords
Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time. By Nomi Claire Lazar. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. 288p. $39.50 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592719004535
Abstract: positionality. We can contrast this approach with Matthew Moore’s 2016 book Buddhism and Political Theory. AlthoughMoore also situates himself within a generalized construction of “Buddhism,” he is explicit that he is presenting his own interpretive… read more here.
Keywords: happiness; joint power; chapter; buddhist political ... See more keywords
From The Ancient Constitution to Barbarism and Religion; The Machiavellian Moment, the history of political thought and the history of historiography
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2016.1198517
Abstract: Since writing the introductory chapter of The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (ACFL), I have been concerned with the two kinds of intellectual history named in the above title. ‘Political thought’ and ‘historiography’ –… read more here.
Keywords: moment; political thought; ancient constitution; history ... See more keywords
Resistance in intellectual history and political thought
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2018.1473955
Abstract: Recent citizen movements in Europe, the United States and the Arab World have prompted a revival of interest in resistance, as both a practice and a civic ideal. Yet contemporary political theory offers no clear… read more here.
Keywords: resistance intellectual; intellectual history; political thought; history ... See more keywords
The tragedy of honor in early modern political thought: Hobbes, Mandeville, Montesquieu, and Rousseau
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2021.1872038
Abstract: The academic defense of honor for its positive political and moral effects has surged recently among moral philosophers and political theorists. Challenging the narrative that the feudal legacy of ... read more here.
Keywords: tragedy honor; political thought; modern political; thought hobbes ... See more keywords
The rise of the ethical state in Italy. Neapolitan Hegelians and Risorgimento political thought (1848–1871)
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DOI: 10.1080/1354571x.2019.1573021
Abstract: ABSTRACT The article examines the idea of the Ethical State in Italy within the context of the Risorgimento and of Neapolitan Hegelianism. The article first analyses the Neapolitan Hegelians’ idea of nationality and its relationship… read more here.
Keywords: ethical state; state italy; state; political thought ... See more keywords
Revolution and its discontents: political thought and reform in Iran
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DOI: 10.1080/1462317x.2021.1882737
Abstract: For Western observers, Iran seemed to be on a path toward normalization after 1997. The charismatic new president, Sayyid Mohammad Khatami, did no longer fit the cliche of the “evil mullah.” He sat... read more here.
Keywords: thought reform; discontents political; reform iran; revolution discontents ... See more keywords
A possible Buddhist influence on Chinese political thought
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DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2018.1560776
Abstract: ABSTRACT Proponents of twentieth century Chinese critiques of pre-modern Chinese autocracy could point to one or two earlier examples of negative views of autocratic rule, but the ultimate origin of these views has been hard… read more here.
Keywords: influence chinese; political thought; chinese political; buddhist influence ... See more keywords