Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; References; PART I: Critical phenomenology and the study of politics; 1. Critical phenomenology and the study of politics (1981); Notes; 2. Beyond possessive individualism (1981); Possessive neo-individualism; "Egophany" and the "end of man"; Notes; 3. Political philosophy today (1984); I; II; III; Notes; 4. Habermas and rationality (1991); I; II; III; Notes; 5. Rethinking the political: some Heideggerian contributions (1993); I; II; III; IV; Notes; PART II: Cross-cultural theory
6. Beyond monologue: for a comparative political theory (2004); Some contemporary motivations; Philosophical sources of inspiration; Comparative political theory; Critical queries and broader implications; Notes; 7. Conversation across boundaries: e pluribus unum? (2003); Orientalism and the primacy of power politics; Habermas and communicative rationality; Toward self-transgressive friendship; Notes; 8. Modes of cross-cultural encounter: reflections on 1492 (1996); Conquest; Conversion; Assimilation and acculturation; Liberalism and minimal engagement; Conflict and class struggle
Dialogical engagement; Notes; 9. Political self-rule: Gandhi and the future of democracy (2013); Gandhian swaraj; Swaraj and liberal democracy; Swaraj and Western political thought; Notes; PART III: Cosmopolitanism; 10. Global governance and cultural diversity: toward a cosmopolitan democracy (2001); Global governance: some views; Counter-hegemonic resistance; Toward a cosmopolitan democracy; Notes; 11. Cosmopolitanism: in search of cosmos (2013); Globalization; Cosmopolitan world order; Cosmopolitanism as engaged practice; Notes
12. Mindfulness and cosmopolis: why cross-cultural studies now? (2014); Political theory as practical philosophy; "Comparative" political thinking; Cross-cultural political thinking today; Notes; An interview with Fred Dallmayr; Index
