Political Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective: Power Relations in a Global World (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032023228 ISBN 13: 9781032023229

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

The objective of the following collected volume is to encourage a critical reflection on the relationship between "power" and "non-power" in our contemporary "world" and, proceeding from various philosophical traditions, to investigate the multifaceted aspects of this relationship. The authors’ respective investigations proceed from an intercultural perspective and fall predominantly in the domain of political theory and philosophy.

This volume takes an intercultural political perspective, which means, on the one hand, involving non-European philosophies in a global debate about power relations and their effects in the world and, on the other hand, confronting local traditions of thought with a global inquiry in order to enter into a philosophical-political dialogue with these traditions. An intercultural approach of this type to political philosophy seeks not only to join others in reflecting upon global problems, but also to decenter of our understanding of the world, drawing attention to new ways of thinking.

Insofar as the authors of the planned volume deal with "concrete" philosophical-political problems unfolding in various regions of the world, they seek to shed light on burning issues like migration, human rights violations, dictatorship and language, global poverty, power asymmetries, experiences of injustice with the further goal of offering a particularly intercultural analysis of these problems along with approaches to resolving them. To date, there is no book that collects various essays from different countries and perspectives and poses political-philosophical problems from an intercultural point of view.

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About the Author

Bianca Boteva-Richter is Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Austria).

Sarhan Dhouib is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim (Germany).

James Garrison is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baldwin Wallace University (USA).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032023228
• ISBN 13: 9781032023229
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Boteva-Richter Bianca, Dhouib Sarhan, Garrison James