Political Discourse: Explorations in Indian and Western Political Thought. Edited by Bhikhu Parekh and Thomas Pantham. Newbury Park: Sage, 1987. 314p. $27.50.

Abstract

Introduction - Bhikhu Parekh and Thomas Pantham PART ONE: POLITICAL THEORY AFTER THE LINGUISTIC TURN In the Shadow of Babel - Terence Ball The 'Scientific' Reconstruction of Political Discourse The Power of Language and the Technology of Communication - Hwa Yol Jung A Phenomenological Genealogy Loquocentricity and Democracy - Kenneth Minogue The Communicative Theory of Modern Civil Unity The Liberal Language of Rights - Ronald J Terchek From Locke to Rawls Are Moral Beliefs Ideological Deceptions? - Kai Nielsen 'Objective Significance' in Critical Social Theory - Rajeev Bhargava What is Wrong with Sycophancy? A Caveat on Overrationalised Notions of Political Communication - Upendra Baxi PART TWO: CRITICAL DISCOURSE AND POLITICAL PRAXIS IN THE WEST Conceptions of Security - Christian Bay Individual, National and Global Life-World and Communicative Action - Fred R Dallmayr Power and Communication in Habermas and Luhmann - Michael Greven A Critique of Communicative Reductionism Associational versus Communicative Rationality of Politics - Ernst Vollrath Political Theory and Political Communication - Richard Ashcraft Marxism and Ideology - Sobhanlal Datta Gupta Some Problems of Scientific Communication PART THREE: EMANCIPATORY DISCOURSE AND SATYAGRAHA IN INDIA Traditional Wisdom and Modern Science as Paradigms of Political Discourse - Raghuveer Singh Cultural Frames for Transformative Politics - Ashis Nandy A Credo The Constitution of Indian Nationalist Discourse - Partha Chatterjee Communication Against Communication - K Raghavendra Rao The Gandhian Critique of Modern Civilization in Hind Swaraj Gandhi and the Logic of Reformist Discourse - Bhikhu Parekh Habermas' Practical Discourse and Gandhi's Satyagraha - Thomas Pantham