Entering Western Political Philosophy: History, Patterns, and Deconstruction

Author: Ouyang Ying
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is the culmination of the author's decade-long dedicated research into Western political philosophy. It is divided into three parts: Part I, which breaks through the distinction between value judgments and factual judgments, reorganizes the 2,500-year history of Western political philosophy, and clearly positions postmodernist political philosophy from the perspective of factual judgments; Part II, which extracts the underlying modes of thinking embedded in Western political philosophy and deeply explores the reasons why contemporary Western political philosophy has fallen into a predicament from the perspective of these modes of thinking; Part III, which offers new interpretations of political phenomena at three levels—state, power, and value—and reveals the connections between justice and the state, democracy and power, and ideology and value. This book presents original insights, is rich in content, and is well-supported by evidence, making it a valuable reference for those studying Western political philosophy.