A Post-Western Account of Critical Cosmopolitan Social Theory : Being and Acting in a Democratic World Hardback

The book offers a critical synthesis of critical theory, decolonial theory and Buddhist/Confucian inspired social theory.

It does so as a cosmopolitan endeavour in order to overcome the limitations of these three traditions.

The Buddhist/Confucian inspired social theory provides a robust and interpenetrative account of intra and inter-cultural social ontology, critical theory safeguards the individual and decolonial theory forces us to move away from ideals to instead focus on injustices.

The approach is a unique and original synthesis of these three traditions.

This leads to a conceptually non-western centric account of critical cosmopolitanism and radical democracy.

The main themes are eurocentrism, cosmopolitanism, post-individual subjectivity and democracy.

In providing such an account it allows for the study of the effects of the lives of those in colonised societies but also provides a mechanism to explore the effects of colonisation on the colonising societies.