The Journal of Contemporary Thought
Summer Issue - 2008

Contents:

Unmasking the Political: An Introduction
- Lajwanti Chatani

The Concept of the Political: Between War and Peace
- Fred Dallmayr

The Implosion of 'the Political'
- Aditya Nigam

The Idea of Politics in International Relations
- Shibashis Chatterjee

The Power of Superstition in Public Life in India
- Dipesh Chakrabarty

The Politics of Hindu 'Tolerance'

- Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Inhabiting the Political: Theorizing the Political Consciousness

of the Indian Subaltern
- Omendra Kumar Singh

Revisiting Democracy's First Modern Executive:

The American Presidency
- William D. Pederson

The President as Phronimos

- Ethan Fishman

Democratic Politics as a Presupposition of Identity Politics

- N. Sreekumar

Radical Liberalism and the Nature of Liberty

in John Milton's Late Political Overtures

- Prasanta Chakravarty

Book Review