Post-Western international relations reconsidered: the pre-modern politics of Gongsun Long

This study offers a critique of international relations from the perspective of eminent pre-modern Chinese thinker Gongsun Long. Shedding new light on the interconnected epistemological, ontological, and political dimensions of his thought, Shih and Yu consider a pressing question of our time: how t...

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Hauptverfasser: Shih, Chih-yu 1958- (VerfasserIn), Yu, Po-tsan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan 2015
Schriftenreihe:Global political thinkers
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Zusammenfassung:This study offers a critique of international relations from the perspective of eminent pre-modern Chinese thinker Gongsun Long. Shedding new light on the interconnected epistemological, ontological, and political dimensions of his thought, Shih and Yu consider a pressing question of our time: how to conceptualize political order in the globalized contemporary world. Gongsun Long's approach in many ways prefigures postmodern thinking, and his writings inspire critical reflections on globalization
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