UID:
edocfu_9959244876002883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 375 p.)
ISBN:
93-5280-192-X
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1-282-50342-1
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9786612503429
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81-321-0487-0
Content:
The book examines present perceptions of East and West seen through the eyes of eminent scholars from India. The interviews presented here are set in the historical context of relations between Europe and the Muslim World and analysed from a theoretical angle drawing from theories of modernity, conceptions of justice and notions of identity politics.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: 'Europe' and 'The Muslim World': A Brief History of Reciprocal Perceptions; Late Antiquity to the Beginnings of the Modern Era; Encounters in the Late Roman World; Islam in Western Europe: Al-Andalus; Encounter in the Levant: The Crusades; At the Gates of Vienna: The Ottomans in Europe; The Reformation: Ushering in the Modern Era; Part II: The Global Condition:Modernity and Its Critics; Culture and Identity in Modern Politics; The World Polity Approach; Institution; Decoupling; Actor and Action; Rationality and Rationalisation
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Religion and the 'Religious'Progress and Teleology; Principal and Agent; Scientifi c Rationality; The Modern Self; The Liberal System Globalised; The World Polity; Diffusion; The Statelessness of the World Polity; Inclusion and Exclusion; Identity; Language; Culture; The Political; Inclusive versus Identity Politics; Identity Politics in Europe; Identity Politics in India; Freedom to Non-development; Development as Freedom; Identity Politics and the Ramjanmabhumi Movement; Part III: Intellectual Elites and Normative Ordersin India, Israel, Palestine and Turkey
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Introduction: Survey and InterviewsAshok Acharya; Imtiaz Ahmad; Anwar Alam; Rajeev Bhargava; Asoke Bhattacharya; Anil Bhatti; Roma Chatterji; Asghar Ali Engineer; Anjan Ghosh; Qutub Kidwai and Shirin Huda; Gurpreet Mahajan; Shail Mayaram; Deepak Mehta; Salil Misra; Ashis Nandy; Aditya Nigam; Devdutt Pattanaik; Dhruv Raina; Ruby Sain; Zeenat Shaukat Ali; Virginius Xaxa; Appendix: Binary Oppositions in Counter-hegemonic Discourse; References; Index; About the Author
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 81-321-0800-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 81-321-0304-1
Language:
English
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