Lexington Books
Pages: 298
Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-0-7391-0610-5 • Paperback • April 2003 • $54.99 • (£42.00)
Anthony Parel is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Gandhi, Freedom, and Self-Rule (Lexington, 2000). Ronald Keith is Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary, and is the author of numerous articles on China.
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Second Edition
Chapter 2 The Comparative Study of Political Philosophy
Chapter 3 Classical Western Political Philosophy
Chapter 4 Modern Western Political Philosophy
Chapter 5 Law and Society in Confucian Thought
Chapter 6 Mao Zedong and His Political Thought
Chapter 7 What Good is Democracy? The Alternatives in China and the West
Chapter 8 Of Artha and the Arthasastra
Chapter 9 Mahatma Gandhi's Critique of Modernity
Chapter 10 Farabi and Greek Political Philosophy
Chapter 11 Khomeini's Doctrine of Legitimacy
Comparative Political Philosophy breaks the taboo of treating nonwestern political thinking as untouchable. . . . The publication of this book is an act of courage, and a landmark in the literature on political philosophy.
— The Book Review, (India)