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Helen Pringle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Women in Political Thought
    Hypatia, 1993
    Co-Authors: Helen Pringle
    Abstract:

    The argument of this paper is that texts in the history of Political Thought are rather more loquacious on the question of women than has often been supposed. The argument is developed using examples from Plato's Republic, notably the sections on injustice and tyranny. The paper concludes by suggesting the general implications of its approach for the concerns and style of Political theory, particularly as to the importance of understanding symbolic and mythic elements in works of Political Thought.

Michael Hanchard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • contours of black Political Thought an introduction and perspective
    Political Theory, 2010
    Co-Authors: Michael Hanchard
    Abstract:

    This essay aims to demonstrate how attention to black Political Thought might expand and complicate our understanding of modern politics and the conceptualization of the Political in contemporary Political theory, and in modern politics more generally. Black Political Thought can be viewed as the attempt to develop a set of critical tools to help explain the Political distinctiveness of black life-worlds and how this distinctiveness is structured by a series of relations between individual and community, self and other, state and society, citizen and non-citizen, and national and multinational (or global) circumstances. Too often, black politics is exclusively considered as a form of minority group politics and phenomena reducible to empirical investigation and observation, rather than a set of practices with underlying conceptual, theoretical, and epistemological premises. If we understand race as a fundamentally relational concept, namely, an assumption of dynamic interaction between two or more putativ...

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Ed Jones - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Book review: Islamic Political Thought: an introduction
    2015
    Co-Authors: Ed Jones
    Abstract:

    This volume covers central themes of Islamic thinking such as the caliphate, Shari’a, the life of Muhammad, jihad, and the Qu’ran. Islamic Political Thought: An Introduction addresses how modernity, minorities, and women’s rights relate to the Islamic intellectual tradition, writes Ed Jones, who finds this book to be mandatory reading for anyone hoping to understand the core themes behind the contemporary uses and abuses of Islamic traditions of Political Thought.