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Making the Political

Making the Political

Jenco, Leigh K.

Hardcover

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0521760607
ISBN13: 9780521760607
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 3 2010
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Democratic political theory often sees collective action as the basis for non-coercive social change, assuming that its terms and practices are always self-evident and accessible. But what if we find ourselves in situations where collective action is not immediately available, or even widely intelligible? This book examines one of the most intellectually substantive and influential Chinese thinkers of the early twentieth century, Zhang Shizhao (1881-1973), who insisted that it is individuals who must 'make the political' before social movements or self-aware political communities have materialized. Zhang draws from British liberalism, democratic theory, and late-Imperial Confucianism to formulate new roles for effective individual action on personal, social, and institutional registers. In the process, he offers a vision of community that turns not on spontaneous consent or convergence on a shared goal, but on ongoing acts of exemplariness that inaugurate new, unpredictable contexts for effective personal action.

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