Yale University Press, 2019. — 575 p. A translation of a key commentary on perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China. This book is a translation of a key commentary on the Book of Changes, or Yijing (I Ching), perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China. The Yijing first appeared as a divination text in Zhou Dynasty China (ca. 1045 – 256 BC)...
SAGE Publications, 2021. — 328 p. Political Thought in Indic Civilization retrieves, resurrects, and analyzes the earliest theories of Indic political philosophies. The book primarily focuses on the Indic civilization’s political thought, emphasizing key issues such as Rashtra (State), kingship, jurisprudence, and justice. The study shows how ideas, ideologies, frameworks,...
SAGE Publications, 2022. — 474 p. Political Philosophy of Kautilya: The Arthashastra and After offers a critical analysis of ideas and institutions as described in the ancient political economy text Arthashastra. It discusses the contributions of pre-Kautilyan, Kautilyan and post-Kautilyan political thought to the evolution and development of political theory, in general, and...
Foundation Books, 2010. — 398 p. Even as his 150th birth anniversary draws near, Rabindranath Tagore remains quite under-explored. Nirad C. Chaudhuri predicted that the difficulty in translating Tagore's work would ascertain that in the future his work will lie 'like a buried city in the past'. The difficulty of translating him into any of the European or modern Indian...
Second Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 380 p. The History of Islamic Political Thought offers a full description and an interpretation of political philosophy from early Islam to the current age of Fundamentalism (from 622 to 2000). Antony Black takes the same approach as scholars usually do for the history of Western political thought, examining the mentality,...
Routledge, 2022. — 290 p. "Proto-Salafist" 14th-century theologian Ibn Taymiyya is recognized as the intellectual forefather of contemporary Salafism and Jihadism. This volume offers a unique approach to the study of Ibn Taymiyya, by offering an English translation of his fundamental political treatise, The Office of Islamic Government, and shorter collections from The...
Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. — 268 p. Using the principle of individual autonomy rather than civil disobedience, Indian independence, or duty-as an analytical lens, Ronald J. Terchek offers a completely original interpretation of his subject's political thought. Terchek argues that Gandhi's thought is animated by a concern for equal respect and regard for all persons, and he...
New York: Comité de Sindicalismo Libre de la Federación Americana del Trabajo, 1970. — 23 p. Los pasajes de la prensa comunista china reproducidos en este texto se citan tal como aparecieron en las traducciones de la prensa china, los cuales el Consulado General de los Estados Unidos en Hong Kong, los presenta en tres series: «Antecedentes Actuales», «Estudio de la Prensa de la...
Knopf, 2019. — 624 p. — ISBN: 978-0525656043, 0525656049. For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People's Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist...
Knopf, 2019. — 624 p. — ISBN: 978-0525656043, 0525656049. For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People's Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist...
Knopf, 2019. — 624 p. — ISBN: 978-0525656043, 0525656049. For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People's Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist...
Knopf, 2019. — 624 p. — ISBN: 978-0525656043, 0525656049. For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People's Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. — 440 p. Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting outside imperial encounters, they initiated underground transnational networks with Japan. Prominent intellectuals and cultural figures, from Peter...
Westport; London: Praeger Publishers; Greenwood Publishing Group. Inc., 2001. — x, 222 p. — ISBN: 0275961486. This is the second volume of my study of International Maoism. It deals basically with Maoism in the "developed" countries. However, in the case of the European nations it varies a bit from this pattern, including all those nations which during the Cold War period were...
Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 123 p. — (Global Political Thinkers). — ISBN10: 3030020347, 13 978-3030020347. This book explores one of the 20th century’s most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked. Tanaka Kōtarō (1890-1974) was modern Japan’s pre-eminent legal scholar and jurist. Yet because most of his writing was in Japanese, he has been largely...
Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 136 p. — (Global Political Thinkers). — ISBN10: 3030020347, 13 978-3030020347. This book explores one of the 20th century’s most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked. Tanaka Kōtarō (1890-1974) was modern Japan’s pre-eminent legal scholar and jurist. Yet because most of his writing was in Japanese, he has been largely...
Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2001. — 399 p. Analytical Table of Contents Map Time Chart Part I The Messenger and the Law c.622–1000 The Mission of Muhammad The Idea of Monarchy under the Umayyads and ÆAbbasids c.661–850 18 The Formation of the ShariÆa ShiÆism The Restoration of Persia c.850–1050 Knowledge and Power: Philosophy without the Polis Part II Religion and State...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 704 p. — ISBN: 0691134847. The first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond. With more than 400 alphabetically arranged entries written by an...
University of Chicago, Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 232 p. The modern political consciousness of Japan cannot be understood without reference to the history of the Tokugawa period, the era between 1600 and 1868 that preceded Japan's modern transformation. In this volume Tetsuo Najita introduces the ideas of the leading political thinker of the period, Ogyu Sorai (1666 -...