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Europe and the Eastern Other - Comparative Perspectives on Politics, Religion Culture Before

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Informationen zum Autor LL.M Klappentext Analyzing encounters between Europeans and their eastern others before the European Enlightenment, this book illustrates that adopting an intercultural perspective in western political theory is necessary because the West's cultural others have played a foundational role in developing a distinct western cultural self-understanding. Zusammenfassung Analyzing encounters between Europeans and their eastern others before the European Enlightenment! this book illustrates that adopting an intercultural perspective in western political theory is necessary because the West's cultural others have played a foundational role in developing a distinct western cultural self-understanding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards a more Inclusive Discipline of Political TheoryChapter 2: Between Euro-Centrism and Euro-Denial: The case for Comparative Political TheoryChapter 3: "No People and a Foolish Nation": The Thirteenth Century Mongol Empire Through Western EyesChapter 4: "Wise men of the Franks": Jesuit Missionaries at the Court of Indian Emperor Akbar the GreatChapter 5: "Delusions of Celestial Perfection": The Encounter between Jesuit Missionaries and the Chinese Literati in Early Modern ChinaChapter 6: Conclusions: Otherness, Canonicity and Comparative Political Theory

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