Foreword by JOHAN GALTUNG
Preface
Introduction: Transforming Power and Freedom ANANTA KUMAR GIRI
I: RECONSTITUTING POWER AND FREEDOM: MODERNITY AND BEYOND
Modernity and the Reconstitution of the Realm of the Political S N EISENSTADT
Play of Power and Struggle for Freedom in Renaissance Humanism: Erasmus between Scylla and Charybdis FELIX WILFRED
Political Symbolism or How to Stay on the Surface FRANK R ANKERSMIT
Control of Power through Freedom: An Issue in Kant’s Political Philosophy BINOD KUMAR AGARWALA
Power of Modernity and the Tail of the Devil PHILIP QUARLES VAN UFFORD
Rethinking Power: Aesthetics, Dialogue, Hegemony KANCHANA MAHADEVAN
Metamorphoses of Power: From Coercion to Cooperation? JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE
II: BEYOND THE MODERN PRINCE: VARIETIES OF STRUGGLES AND NEW INTIMATIONS
Non-violent Movements and the Transformation of Power STELLAN VINTHAGEN
Origins and Sources of Power: Indonesian Paradigms and Beyond BERNARD ADENEY-RISAKOTTA
Social Transformation in Contemporary Korea: Three Prime Movers in the Contested Civil Society HAN SANG-JIN
Beyond Powerlessness: Celebrating the Power of the Displaced JOSE JOWEL CANUDAY /Ecological Ontology and Landscapes of Democratic Struggle in Globalization Politics: Residual, Emergent and Transformative Dimensions HERBERT REID and BETSY TAYLOR
In Search of Structures of Cooperation: The Discursive Construction of Morality in the Land Reform Dispute in Post-apartheid South Africa PIET STRYDOM
The Walking Rebellion: The Zapatista’s Struggle for Autonomy and the Difficulties of Social Change MATEO MIER Y TERÁN G C
A Yearning of the Heart: Spirituality and Politics HELENA TAGESSON
III: TRANSFORMING POWER AND FREEDOM: NEW HORIZONS
Power and Wisdom: Does World History Have a Moral Dimension? AKOP P NAZARETYAN
Towards a Critical Biography and the Legacy of the Rishis: Kautilya and the Calling of Political Ethics GODABARISHA MISHRA
Meister Eckhart: The Power of Inner Liberation DIETMAR MIETH
A War against the Turks? Erasmus on War and Peace FRED R DALLMAYR
Machievelli, The Prince and Leadership Responsibility SAPIR HANDELMAN
Transforming Power and Freedom: From Voluntary Servitude to Non-violent Resistance CHRISTIAN BARTOLF
Gandhi and Empowerment MRINAL MIRI
None is Free Until All are Free: Sartre’s Ontology of Freedom and His Politics ROBERT BERNASCONI
Rethinking Freedom in the Face of Ecological Crises MARK LINDLEY
Power and Self-cultivation: Aesthetics, Development Ethics and the Calling of Poverty ANANTA KUMAR GIRI
Reflections on Human Security: A Buddhist Contribution Thanh-Dam TRUONG
Towards an Islamic Hermeneutics for Human Rights ABDULLAHI AHMED AN-NAIM
Beyond Power: Alternative Conceptions of Being and the Reconstitution of Social Theory JOHN CLAMMER
Afterword by CHITTA RANJAN DAS
Index