Political Encounters

CONTENTS

1.      Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1.Political Obligation

1.2.The Modern State

1.3.Hermeneutics

1.4.Plan of this Book

 

2.      Chapter 2: The 'Rational Individual'- Rational Paradigms of Political Obligation

2.1  Rationalism and Politics

2.2  Political Obligation and Rationalism

2.3  The Strengths and the Limitations of a Normative Rational Paradigm

2.4  Rationalism and Obligation in the Scottish Legal System

 

3.      Chapter 3: The Importance of Tradition and Culture- Context-based Paradigms of Political Obligation 3.1 Conservatism and Communitarianism



3.2 Associative Political Obligation- A Context-based Approach

3.3. Confucian Communitarianism- The Context-based Approach in China

3.4 Traditional Culture, Obligation, and the Chinese State

 

4.      Chapter Four: The Oppressor and the Oppressed- Marxist and Other Critical Paradigms of Political Obligation

4.1 The Marxist Critique of Political Obligation

4.2 Beyond Class- A Gender Based Criticism of Obligation

4.3 The Problem of False Consciousness and the Limits of the Critical Approach

4.4. Gender and Obligation in the USSR

 

5.      Chapter Five: Inside the Situation- Introducing the Hermeneutic Concept of Encounter

5.1 The Encounter

5.2 Horizon

5.3 Narrative

 6.      Chapter Six: The Encounter and Obligation



6.1 Encounter, Friendship, and Obligation

6.2 The Encounter with the 'the Enemy'

6.3 The Encounter and Political Obligation

6.4 The Encounter as a Hermeneutic Tool for

Ruairidh J. Brown teaches International Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. He holds a PhD in Political Theory from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.