POL381H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Political Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Family Resemblance
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Godrej, f. 2009. towards a cosmopolitan political thought: the hermeneutics of interpreting the other. polity, 41(2):pp. Not enough time or energy spent on non-western ideas. Remains in state of infancy for the most part. Existing understandings of cosmopolitanism in political theory fall short in several ways. More genuine cosmopolitan thought will directly confront the challenges presented by the encounter with other texts/ideas. Problematic but important to continue to use notions of west/non- Not about geography but patterns of exclusion and privilege. Scholarly work builds upon / is defined by previous work. Identify texts as a tradition of one versus another. The first interpretive moment: the hermeneutic of existential. First task is to bring themselves as close as possible to the "world" of the other text. Text from radically different culture may be best understood by penetrating consciousness / lived experiences of those who live by ideas expressed in text. Subject and object are always connected to each other.
