• ISBN13: 9788126941780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 20, 2025
• Pages: 289
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Political Theory illuminates some of the most pressing political concerns of our times. The volume includes a dozen articles that draw upon a wide spectrum of social sciences and humanities (political science, sociology, international studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural studies) to explore the historically-grounded contemporaneity and the interdisciplinarity of political theory. It represents the joint endeavour of the editor and twelve outstanding scholars spanning four continents.

Mangesh Kulkarni is a distinguished scholar with four decades of teaching and research experience at universities in India, Africa and Europe. He recently retired from Savitribai Phule Pune University where he had served as Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and published five books which cover a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from political theory to global masculinities. He has served as Associate Editor of New Quest (Mumbai), and as a member of the International Advisory Board of Men and Masculinities, a Sage journal published from New York. He has been a recipient of a Rotary International Grant for University Teachers, an Indal Fellowship awarded by the Asiatic Society of Bombay, a Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant, an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship of the European Commission, and a Guest Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. He has also served as a Chair Professor of Indian Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria) and the University of Leipzig (Germany), garnering international recognition for his influential work on politics, culture, and gender.

• List of Abbreviations vii
• Acknowledgements ix
• Introduction xi
• 1. Reflections on the Relation between Theory and Practice for Our Times 1
• Jayant Lele
• 2. The Politics of Globalisation: Theoretical Debates 37
• Rohini Hensman
• 3. Theory of Public Choice: Implications for Democracy 57
• Prakash Sarangi
• 4. Justice, Citizenship and the Politics of Feminism 70
• Lajwanti Chatani
• 5. Group Identities and Rights: A Case for Theory beyond the Nation-state 87
• Arpita Anant
• 6. Civil Society: Alternatives and Differences 117
• Sanjay Palshikar
• 7. Albert Camus and the Politics of Friendship 135
• Mangesh Kulkarni
• 8. Dismantling the Political 151
• Syed A. Sayeed
• 9. Discourse Ethics: Rediscovering the Link between Rationality and Morality 166
• Deepti Gangavane
• 10. Debates on Protecting Traditional Knowledge in the Age of Globalisation: A Call for Re-imagining Political Theory 184
• Kannamma Raman
• 11. The Camp as Nomos of the Modern: Interrogating the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 211
• Shardool Thakur
• 12. The Crime of Torture 231
• Justin Clemens and Russell Grigg
• Index 255
• About the Editor and Contributors 263