Rethinking Political Thinkers
Rethinking Political Thinkers explores a uniquely diverse set of political thinkers, from traditionally canonical theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Mill, to marginalized women and thinkers of color, such as hooks, Du Bois, Butler, Fanon, Firestone, Said, and Goldman.

Placing traditional thinkers alongside and in conversation with neglected and unheard voices opens up important debates, and presents political thought in a new light. Each thinker is examined within the contexts of patriarchy, white supremacy, and imperialism, and the relations and structures of race, gender, and class which different theories have reflected, defended, or challenged.

The text is organized thematically, rather than simply chronologically, in order to explore central ideas such as social contract theory and its critics, freedom and revolution, the liberal self and black consciousness, colonial domination, and the environment. In each chapter students are encouraged to think through ideas in relation to their everyday experiences, and to understand that political thought occurs in many formats, so that they develop a more inclusive, intercultural, and critical awareness of the development of social and political thought.

Original and timely, Rethinking Political Thinkers is designed to support the study of a decolonised political theory curriculum, revitalising political thought as a practice that belongs to us all.

The online student resources include links to relevant videos, articles, blogs, and useful websites, which help students further develop their research interests. Additionally, detailed thinker biographies provide further social, political, and cultural context for each theorist covered in the text.
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Rethinking Political Thinkers
Rethinking Political Thinkers explores a uniquely diverse set of political thinkers, from traditionally canonical theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Mill, to marginalized women and thinkers of color, such as hooks, Du Bois, Butler, Fanon, Firestone, Said, and Goldman.

Placing traditional thinkers alongside and in conversation with neglected and unheard voices opens up important debates, and presents political thought in a new light. Each thinker is examined within the contexts of patriarchy, white supremacy, and imperialism, and the relations and structures of race, gender, and class which different theories have reflected, defended, or challenged.

The text is organized thematically, rather than simply chronologically, in order to explore central ideas such as social contract theory and its critics, freedom and revolution, the liberal self and black consciousness, colonial domination, and the environment. In each chapter students are encouraged to think through ideas in relation to their everyday experiences, and to understand that political thought occurs in many formats, so that they develop a more inclusive, intercultural, and critical awareness of the development of social and political thought.

Original and timely, Rethinking Political Thinkers is designed to support the study of a decolonised political theory curriculum, revitalising political thought as a practice that belongs to us all.

The online student resources include links to relevant videos, articles, blogs, and useful websites, which help students further develop their research interests. Additionally, detailed thinker biographies provide further social, political, and cultural context for each theorist covered in the text.
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Rethinking Political Thinkers explores a uniquely diverse set of political thinkers, from traditionally canonical theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Mill, to marginalized women and thinkers of color, such as hooks, Du Bois, Butler, Fanon, Firestone, Said, and Goldman.

Placing traditional thinkers alongside and in conversation with neglected and unheard voices opens up important debates, and presents political thought in a new light. Each thinker is examined within the contexts of patriarchy, white supremacy, and imperialism, and the relations and structures of race, gender, and class which different theories have reflected, defended, or challenged.

The text is organized thematically, rather than simply chronologically, in order to explore central ideas such as social contract theory and its critics, freedom and revolution, the liberal self and black consciousness, colonial domination, and the environment. In each chapter students are encouraged to think through ideas in relation to their everyday experiences, and to understand that political thought occurs in many formats, so that they develop a more inclusive, intercultural, and critical awareness of the development of social and political thought.

Original and timely, Rethinking Political Thinkers is designed to support the study of a decolonised political theory curriculum, revitalising political thought as a practice that belongs to us all.

The online student resources include links to relevant videos, articles, blogs, and useful websites, which help students further develop their research interests. Additionally, detailed thinker biographies provide further social, political, and cultural context for each theorist covered in the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198847397
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 06/30/2023
Edition description: 1
Pages: 784
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Manjeet Ramgotra is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory (Education), Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London. Manjeet is an Independent Scholar Fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation, affiliated with the Department of Politics at QMUL. Her research chronicles a history of republicanism extending from classical European to twentieth-century anti-colonial political thought on which she has published several articles. She is a strong advocate of decolonising the curriculum, and has co-edited a book on Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education (Routledge, 2021) as well as written blogposts and articles on this subject. Currently, she is working on a project on post-colonial republicanism in India. Manjeet was recently appointed to the Quality Assurance Agency Advisory Board to rewrite the Politics and IR benchmark statement, and is a Trustee on the Political Studies Association executive committee.

Simon Choat is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Kingston University London. He is the author of Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze (Continuum, 2010) and Marx's 'Grundrisse: A Reader's Guide' (Bloomsbury, 2016). He has published articles on, amongst other topics, neoliberalism, contemporary anarchism, the philosophers Ernesto Laclau and Michael Sandel, and the theories of the 'new materialists' such as Bruno Latour. He has been teaching political theory for nearly 20 years. He has published research on decolonising the political theory curriculum and is currently collaborating on a comparative study of Politics and Economics curricula at UK universities. He is a member of the Political Economy Research Group at Kingston University and is co-convener of the Political Studies Association specialist group on Political Thought.

Table of Contents

I. Boundaries of the Political1. Introduction, Simon Choat and Manjeet Ramgotra2. Plato, Socrates and Sojourner Truth, Patrizia Longo3. Aristotle and bell hooks, Manjeet Ramgotra4. Kautilya, Deepshikha ShahiII. Social Contract Theory and its Critics5. Thomas Hobbes, Signy Gutnick-Allen6. Baruch de Spinoza, Caroline Williams7. John Locke, Hagar Kotef8. Mary Astell, Allauren Forbes9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Peter Hallward10. Carole Pateman and Charles Mills, Terrell CarverIII. Liberal Modernity and Colonial Domination11. Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu, Manjeet Ramgotra12. John Stuart Mill, Inder S. Marwah13. Karl Marx, Simon Choat14. Friedrich Nietzsche, Willow Verkerk15. Sayyid Qutb, Ayesha OmarIV. Freedom and Revolution17. Catharine Macaulay and Edmund Burke, Alan Coffee18. C. L. R. James, Robbie Shilliam19. Hannah Arendt, Kei Hiruta20. Zhang Taiyan, Viren MurthyV. Inclusion and Equality21. Mary Wollstonecraft, Ashley Dodsworth22. Iris Marion Young23. Bhikhu Parekh, Varun Uberoi24. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nikita DhawanVI. Violence, Power, and Resistance25. Niccolo Machiavelli, Yves Winter26. Emma Goldman, Ruth Kinna27. Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi, James Casas Klausen28. Frantz Fanon, Keally McBrideVII. The Liberal Self and Black Consciousness29. Immanuel Kant, Stella Sandford30. Frederick Douglass, Kiara Gilbert and Karen Salt31. W. E. B. Dubois, Elvira Basevich32. John Rawls, Maeve McKeownVIII. Sex and Sexuality33. Michel Foucault, Paul Patton34. Shulamith Firestone, Victoria Margree35. Angela Davis, Manjeet Ramgotra36. Judith Butler, Clare WoodfordIX. The Environment, Human, and Non-Human37. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Eva-Maria Nag38. Donna Haraway, Claire Colebrook39. Indigenous ecologies, Esme G. Murdock
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