Polis and cosmopolis -- Gandhi as mediator between East and West -- The discourse and counter-discourses of modernity -- Voegelin's search for order -- Postmodernism and political order -- Hegemony and democracy: a Post-Hegelian perspective -- Rethinking the Hegelian state -- Bloch's principle of hope -- Politics of the kingdom: Pannenberg's anthropology -- Appendix: Heidegger, Hölderlin, and politics
