Machine generated contents note: 1.Cosmopolitanism, Comparative Political Theory and Civilizational Alterity -- 2.Canons, Traditions and Cosmopolitanism: Choosing the "Units" of Analysis -- 3.Interpreting the Other: The Hermeneutics of Comparative Political Thought -- 4."Other" Texts, Our Contexts: Western Problems and Non-Western Solutions -- 5.Destabilizing Eurocentrism and Reframing Political Inquiry.