Stuart Gray

A Defense of Rule

Origins of Political Thought in Greece and India

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Produktbeschreibung

While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain how rule need not be understood as anathema to political life. By looking at some of the earliest traditions of political thought, Stuart Gray establishes a new analytic approach to understanding fundamental political ideas of other cultures and time periods, and he uses this comparative analysis to re-envision the meaning of rule in contemporary political life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190636319
• ISBN-10: 0190636319
• Artikelnr.: 47863509

Autorenporträt

Stuart Gray is Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Historical-Comparative Political Theory
* Chapter 1: Homer: Ruling as Distinction
* Chapter 2: Hesiod: Critique, Poetic Justice, and the Increasing
Anthropocentrism of Greek Rule
* Chapter 3: Vedic Political Thought: Hierarchy, Connectedness, and
Cosmology
* Chapter 4: Vedic Samhitas and Brahmanas: Ruling as Stewardship
* Chapter 5: Comparative Considerations on the Meaning of Rule
* Conclusion: Panocracy as a New Vision of Rule
* Notes
* References
* Index