书目名称 | Ethnocentric Political Theory |
副标题 | The Pursuit of Flawe |
编辑 | Bhikhu Parekh |
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概述 | Calls for multicultural perspective ?in political theory, uncovering and overcoming ethnocentric bias.Starts a critical dialogue with voices that have been marginalised, ignored or suppressed.Represen |
丛书名称 | International Political Theory |
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描述 | .Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses. Among the latter should be included its ethnocentricity, its tendency to universalize the local. The political theorist makes universal statements about human beings, societies and states without making a close study of them, and about reason, tradition, human nature and moral ideals without appreciating how differently these are understood in different societies and traditions. These statements are often an uncritical universalisation of his society’s modes of thought and experience. This book traces this tendency in different areas of moral and political life, and argues that a critical engagement between different perspectives offers one possible way to counter this tendency. Seeking universally valid knowledge is a legitimate ambition, but Western political theory cannot realise it without the help of the non-Western as its critical interlocutor.. |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | dialogue; human rights; equality; rationality; cultural pluralism; cultural identity; freedom of speech; pu |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11708-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-11707-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-11708-5Series ISSN 2662-6039 Series E-ISSN 2662-6047 |
issn_series | 2662-6039 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |