TY - BOOK ID - 78341962 TI - Europe and the Eastern other PY - 2013 SN - 1283912872 0739138057 9780739138052 9781283912877 9780739138038 0739138030 0739197339 9780739197332 PB - Lanham, Maryland DB - UniCat KW - Globalization KW - Enlightenment KW - Global cities KW - Globalisation KW - Internationalization KW - International relations KW - Anti-globalization movement KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Political science KW - S02/0300 KW - S02/0310 KW - S13B/0410 KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Comparison of cultures KW - Inter-cultural studies KW - Intercultural studies KW - Trans-cultural studies KW - Transcultural studies KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa KW - China: General works--Intercultural dialogue KW - China: Christianity--Jesuits (incl. Rites Controversy) KW - Methodology KW - Asia KW - Europe KW - Relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78341962 AB - This book critically evaluates and supports the argument for adopting an inter-cultural or comparative approach in western political theory. The analysis of encounters between Europeans and their eastern others before the European Enlightenment illustrates that adopting an inter-cultural perspective in western political theory is necessary because West's cultural others have played a foundational role in developing a distinct western cultural self-understanding. ER -