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The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought - Western and Non-Western Perspectives (Hardcover)
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The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought - Western and Non-Western Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
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The focus of this volume is to address a fundamental concept in
political thought-the state of nature-through a comparative and
cross-cultural approach. Western social contract thinking usually
falls along lines identified with scholars like Hobbes or Rousseau,
with accordant debate over whether humans are good, bad, or just
selfish, conflict prone or cooperative, egocentric or altruistic,
with subordinate discussions about the proper limits of sovereign
authority. Depending on how one views the natural condition of
human beings and the communities which they build, various
questions arise. What constitutes a good or natural political order
and why? What is the best basis for understanding the nature of
sovereignty or political legitimacy, and what is its future? In an
age of increased global interaction and potential cultural,
civilization-based, misunderstanding, this volume takes the
Hobbesian rhetorical device of a pre-social contract state of
nature and seeks to address this concept-and thereby, many of the
aforementioned questions-in light of contributions from non-Western
thinkers.In our globalizing age when cultures and peoples
increasingly talk and interact, it is not viable to use only
Western political thinkers to address allegedly universal concepts.
So we overtly seek to break open the frame of reference for any
future discussion of the state of nature. This volume will add to
the emerging body of work grouped under the heading of Comparative
Political Thought, and serves as a model for how key political
concepts may be addressed in a comparative and cross-civilizational
manner. This has the potential of contributing to a richer and
multifaceted mode of political theorizing. Chapters in the book
engage Chinese, Indic, Polynesian, Jewish, Babylonian, and Islamic
interpretations of this fundamental question of politics. From
this, one may better see how competing normative frameworks are
then reflected in the practice of worldly politics. In addressing
competing interpretations of the state of nature, the exclusionary
hegemonic aspects of the Western canon may be both exposed and
potentially reconciled with alternative visions of political
behavior, legitimacy, justice, rights, and appropriate social and
political behavior.
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