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The Architects of Dignity
Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization
Häftad, 2024
517 kr
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Vietnam has long been a crossroads of empires and thus a site of rich cross-cultural intellectual exchange. In The Architects of Dignity, Kevin Pham is the first political theorist to introduce Vietnamese political thought to debates in political theory, showing how Vietnamese thinkers challenge …
Democracy after Virtue
Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy
Av Sungmoon Kim
Inbunden, 2018
1848 kr
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Is Confucianism compatible with democracy? Ongoing debates among political theorists revolve around the question of whether the overarching goal of Confucianism -- serving the people's moral and material well-being -- is attainable in modern day politics without broad democratic participation and …
Tantric State
A Buddhist Approach to Democracy and Development in Bhutan
Inbunden, 2019
1828 kr
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Today, the majority of sovereign states can be described as "democracies" because they possess elected political leadership and some measure of commitment to the protection and promotion of individual rights and equality under law. In the economic realm, most democracies are market-based and are …
Democracy after Virtue
Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy
Av Sungmoon Kim
Häftad, 2020
779 kr
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Is Confucianism compatible with democracy? Ongoing debates among political theorists revolve around the question of whether the overarching goal of Confucianism--serving the people's moral and material well-being--is attainable in modern day politics without broad democratic participation and …
Misplaced Ideas?
Political-Intellectual History in Latin America
Inbunden, 2024
1077 kr
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Is there a Latin American thought? What distinguishes it from the thought of other regions, particularly from European thought? What are its main expressions in political, cultural, and social life? How has it evolved historically? As the Mexican philosopher Leopoldo Zea Aguilar stated: "hardly any …
The Practice of Skepticism
Montaigne and Zhuangzi on Freedom, Coexistence, and the Limits of Government
Inbunden, 2026
920 kr
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Although the ideas of freedom, peaceful coexistence, and a modest role for government are central to the liberal political tradition and the political practices of contemporary liberal democracies, their justification is disputed. This book argues that a comparative investigation of the thought of …
Towards Confucian Republicanism
Democracy as Virtue Politics
Av Elton Chan
Inbunden, 2025
1305 kr
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Over the last century, Confucianism has been searching for a place in the modern political world. This ancient tradition was once the philosophical cornerstone upon which powerful political orders were built, but the collapse of monarchies in the twentieth century has removed Confucianism from its …
Human Rights Between Universality and Islamic Legitimacy
Inbunden, 2024
1305 kr
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Are concepts of human rights universal? If so, how does one reconcile them with schools of thought that Western regimes often view as hostile to universal human rights, such as Islamic fundamentalism? This question often ends in the assumption that Sharia law cannot be reconciled with human rights …
The Architects of Dignity
Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization
Inbunden, 2024
891 kr
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Vietnam has long been a crossroads of empires and thus a site of rich cross-cultural intellectual exchange. In The Architects of Dignity, Kevin Pham is the first political theorist to introduce Vietnamese political thought to debates in political theory, showing how Vietnamese thinkers challenge …
Misplaced Ideas?
Political-Intellectual History in Latin America
Häftad, 2024
314 kr
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Is there a Latin American thought? What distinguishes it from the thought of other regions, particularly from European thought? What are its main expressions in political, cultural, and social life? How has it evolved historically? As the Mexican philosopher Leopoldo Zea Aguilar stated: "hardly any …
