Rethinking Political Thinkers

Manjeet Ramgotra is a Senior Lecturer in Political Thought, Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London. Manjeet is an Independent Scholar Fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation, affiliated with the Department of Politics at QMUL. Her research chronicles a history of republicanism extending from classical European to twentieth-century anti-colonial political thought on which she has published several articles. She is a strong advocate of decolonising the curriculum, and has co-edited a book on Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education (Routledge, 2021) as well as written blogposts and articles on this subject. Currently, she is working on a project on post-colonial republicanism in India. Manjeet was recently appointed to the Quality Assurance Agency Advisory Board to rewrite the Politics and IR benchmark statement, and is a Trustee on the Political Studies Association executive committee.Simon Choat is Assosciate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Kingston University London. He is the author of Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze (Continuum, 2010) and Marx's 'Grundrisse: A Reader's Guide' (Bloomsbury, 2016). He has published articles on, amongst other topics, neoliberalism, contemporary anarchism, the philosophers Ernesto Laclau and Michael Sandel, and the theories of the 'new materialists' such as Bruno Latour. He has been teaching political theory for nearly 20 years. He has published research on decolonising the political theory curriculum and is currently collaborating on a comparative study of Politics and Economics curricula at UK universities. He is a member of the Political Economy Research Group at Kingston University and is co-convener of the Political Studies Association specialist group on Political Thought.

• I. Boundaries of the Political 1: Simon Choat and Manjeet Ramgotra: Introduction 2: Patrizia Longo: Plato, Socrates and Sojourner Truth 3: Manjeet Ramgotra: Aristotle and bell hooks 4: Deepshikha Shahi: Kautilya II. Social Contract Theory and its Critics 5: Signy Gutnick-Allen: Thomas Hobbes 6: Caroline Williams: Baruch de Spinoza 7: Hagar Kotef: John Locke 8: Allauren Forbes: Mary Astell 9: Peter Hallward: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 10: Terrell Carver: Carole Pateman and Charles Mills III. Liberal Modernity and Colonial Domination 11: Manjeet Ramgotra: Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu 12: Inder S. Marwah: John Stuart Mill 13: Simon Choat: Karl Marx 14: Willow Verkerk: Friedrich Nietzsche 15: Ayesha Omar: Sayyid Qutb 16: Edward W. Said, Rahul Rao IV. Freedom and Revolution 17: Alan Coffee: Catharine Macaulay and Edmund Burke 18: Robbie Shilliam: C. L. R. James 19: Kei Hiruta: Hannah Arendt 20: Viren Murthy: Zhang Taiyan V. Inclusion and Equality 21: Ashley Dodsworth: Mary Wollstonecraft 22: Neus Torbisco-Casals: Iris Marion Young 23: Varun Uberoi: Bhikhu Parekh 24: Nikita Dhawan: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak VI. Violence, Power, and Resistance 25: Yves Winter: Niccolo Machiavelli 26: Ruth Kinna: Emma Goldman 27: James Casas Klausen: Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi 28: Keally McBride: Frantz Fanon VII. The Liberal Self and Black Consciousness 29: Stella Sandford: Immanuel Kant 30: Kiara Gilbert and Karen Salt: Frederick Douglass 31: Elvira Basevich: W. E. B. Dubois 32: Maeve McKeown: John Rawls VIII. Sex and Sexuality 33: Paul Patton: Michel Foucault 34: Victoria Margree: Shulamith Firestone 35: Manjeet Ramgotra: Angela Davis 36: Clare Woodford: Judith Butler IX. The Environment, Human, and Non-Human 37: Eva-Maria Nag: Dipesh Chakrabarty 38: Claire Colebrook: Donna Haraway 39: Esme G. Murdock: Indigenous ecologies

This well-conceived and well-executed book offers accessible and thoughtful chapters on theorists (including Gandhi, C.L.R. James, DuBois and Fanon) and themes (including black consciousness and colonial domination) that do not usually find a place in political theory textbooks, and yet have been central to political thinking in modern times. It will be welcomed by teachers and students who want to avoid the seemingly incorrigible Eurocentrism of their discipline.