B.N. Ray
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The book Political Philosophy: Text and Context is an energetic and engaged exercise to have correct understanding of a thinker. This book has been written to help students see how political philosophy connects and negotiates diverse aspects of human life in ways most people do not realize. It can be used in conjunction with primary sources but it can also stand on its own as an introduction to political philosophy. It aims to discuss consciously the views of ...
Western Politcal Thought: From Plato to Marx is an energetic, engaged and lucid account of the most important political and social thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with the under-graduate and graduate students of political science in mind, the book traces the development of political thought from Plato to Marx. It focuses on individul thinkers and texts and offers original views of thorists and by ...
Political theory extends over vast domain and no book, however generously conceived, could present more that a very small fraction of it; so there must be some way of deciding what to include and what to leave out. Professor Ray has been guided by the following thought - suppose there is someone who knows nothing at all about the subject but who is willing to spend a modest amount of time learning about its various aspects.This book Political Theory and Thought: ...
The past two decade or so has seen a powerful resurgence of interest in the thought of Friedrich Nietzshe (1844-1900) on a global scale. A growing number of collection of essays on Nietzsche has been appearing recently- a happy circumstance, for the most part, in view of the anthology’s being such appropriate genre for secondary literature on a primarily of poetic –mystic thinker. Nietzscheis above all a writer in many voices and problem with books written ...
The task of political theory is to explore the nature and character of political judgments with a view to helping us understand the reasons for past judgments and to help us make better ones. Why do we think that everyone has a right to an equal stake in politics? On what grounds can we discriminate between the claims and counter-claims that assert that the poor, or women, or immigrants should not be allowed a voice? Exploring the normative claims that permeate ...
The struggle of the disadvantaged and the marginalized for rights as well as improved conditions, and especially the rights of citizenship, is a prominent thread running through the history of the West. Political theorists have been writing about citizenship for over two thousand years, and it has been practiced for even longer. No wonder, therefore, that the concept and status of citizenship have accumulated a complex variety of interpretations. However, no age ...
In a time ravaged by large scale violence and unending terror where nothing seems more promising and urgent than to be reminded of another possibility: the path of non-violent struggle for justice exemplified by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi continues to be subject of enduring relevance and interest as it is evident in the interest and passion generated by popular movie, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Gandhigiri is gradually entering into popular imagination and academic ...
Foundation of Western Political Thought is an energetic, engaged and lucid account of the most important political and social thinkers and enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written for the undergraduate and graduate students of political science, the book traces the development of political thought from Socrates to Marx. It focuses on individual thinkers and texts and offers original views of theorists and by highlighting those which may have ...