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What is political theory and why do we need it? / Rajeev Bhargava . — New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

xvi, 406 p. — ( Oxford collected essays ).

What is political theory? -- Why do we need political theory? --. Is there an Indian political theory? --- Political secularism -- The multicultural framework -- The continuing relevance of socialism --- How should we respond to the cultural injustices of colonialism? -- Restoring decency to barbaric societies -- Ordinary feelings, extraordinary events: moral complexity in 9/11 -- Literature, censorship, and democracy --- Religious and secular identities -- Are there alternative modernities? --- Holism and individualism in history and social science -- What makes something social? -- Teleology and ethnocentrism in social science -- Objective significance in critical social theory.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political science.