What is political theory and why do we need it ? (Record no. 227395)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780195699333
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Classification number 320.5 BHA
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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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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010
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Extent 406p.
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Price amount 9000
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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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Topical term or geographic name entry element Politics
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