A Defense of Rule
Origins of Political Thought in Greece and India
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9780190636319
Publication date:
04/09/2017
Hardback
304 pages
235x156mm
Price: 2695.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780190636319
Publication date:
04/09/2017
Hardback
304 pages
Stuart Gray
Provides a new defense for the importance of rule in contemporary life,Offers a novel interpretation of the earliest traditions of political thought in Greece and India,Develops and applies a new analytic approach to understanding fundamental ideas of other cultures and time periods,Connects bodies of knowledge in multiple disciplines, including political theory, philosophy, classics, history and South Asian studies
Rights: OUP USA (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Stuart Gray
Description
At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a process of ruling. While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain how rule need not be understood as anathema to political life. Rather, by looking at some of the earliest traditions of political thought we can rethink rule in ways that evoke stewardship rather than domination.
Stuart Gray argues that hierarchical ideas about rule coevolved with political divisions between the human and non-human in
western theory. The earliest discernible Greek thought advanced an instrumental relationship between humans and their environment, a position that has persisted into our current age. While this seems a defensible position, Gray points out that such instrumental understandings of the nonhuman world have gotten us into serious trouble, including problems of deforestation, global warming, rising sea levels, species loss, and peak oil.
To rethink the concept of rule, A Defense of Rule turns to early Indian political thought that suggests that rule is a relationship predicated on stewardship. The book compares these two traditions of thought in order to suggest that we have
a normative duty to the environment, and thus to act in a way that takes the interests of non-human nature into account. Basing his argument on his own original translations of primary sources in ancient Greek and Sanskrit, Gray shows when and how early concepts of rule evolved to justify divisions between the human and nonhuman. In doing so, he argues for a reconsideration of our duties toward the nonhuman natural world.
Stuart Gray, Assistant Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University
Stuart Gray is Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University.
Stuart Gray
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Historical-Comparative Political Theory
Chapter 1: Homer: Ruling as Distinction
Chapter 2: Hesiod: Critique, Poetic Justice, and the Increasing Anthropocentrism of Greek Rule
Chapter 3: Vedic Political Thought: Hierarchy, Connectedness, and Cosmology
Chapter 4: Vedic Samhitas and Brahmanas: Ruling as Stewardship
Chapter 5: Comparative Considerations on the Meaning of Rule
Conclusion: Panocracy as a New Vision of Rule
Notes
References
Index
Stuart Gray
Description
At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a process of ruling. While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain how rule need not be understood as anathema to political life. Rather, by looking at some of the earliest traditions of political thought we can rethink rule in ways that evoke stewardship rather than domination.
Stuart Gray argues that hierarchical ideas about rule coevolved with political divisions between the human and non-human in
western theory. The earliest discernible Greek thought advanced an instrumental relationship between humans and their environment, a position that has persisted into our current age. While this seems a defensible position, Gray points out that such instrumental understandings of the nonhuman world have gotten us into serious trouble, including problems of deforestation, global warming, rising sea levels, species loss, and peak oil.
To rethink the concept of rule, A Defense of Rule turns to early Indian political thought that suggests that rule is a relationship predicated on stewardship. The book compares these two traditions of thought in order to suggest that we have
a normative duty to the environment, and thus to act in a way that takes the interests of non-human nature into account. Basing his argument on his own original translations of primary sources in ancient Greek and Sanskrit, Gray shows when and how early concepts of rule evolved to justify divisions between the human and nonhuman. In doing so, he argues for a reconsideration of our duties toward the nonhuman natural world.
Stuart Gray, Assistant Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University
Stuart Gray is Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University.
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Historical-Comparative Political Theory
Chapter 1: Homer: Ruling as Distinction
Chapter 2: Hesiod: Critique, Poetic Justice, and the Increasing Anthropocentrism of Greek Rule
Chapter 3: Vedic Political Thought: Hierarchy, Connectedness, and Cosmology
Chapter 4: Vedic Samhitas and Brahmanas: Ruling as Stewardship
Chapter 5: Comparative Considerations on the Meaning of Rule
Conclusion: Panocracy as a New Vision of Rule
Notes
References
Index
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